Synopsis: It’s not a sequel. It’s next in the sequence… Kasper is tired of these extended family reunions. No matter what she does, she’s always the odd one out. She’s used to feeling outnumbered, but on this remote camping trip, those numbers keep changing. Review: Annie Neugebauer’s “Outsiders Sequence,” is nothing short of existentially torturous, […]
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Review: The Anguished Earth by Richard Swan
The atmosphere The Anguished Earth creates is top notch, melding the horror tinged, Dark Age setting with the backdrop of an active outbreak of a deadly disease. As you follow a state appointed Justice on the trail of escaped child murderer, you feel the unsettling sensation of darkness lurking in every corner.
Review: Devil’s Night: A Halloween Short Story by Richard Chizmar
Synopsis It all started on a wind-blown Friday night in October. It was the night before Halloween, the night we always called Wreck Night or Devil’s Night back when we were kids and Halloween was second in our hearts only to Christmas. At least the newspapers got that much right. The day, I mean. They […]
Review: Your Beloved Remains by Quinn Connor
Synopsis As fascination turns to obsession, two women drag each other into an academic horror of forgery, murder, and rage, destined to be devoured by readers of Plain Bad Heroines and If We Were Villains. Archivist Celia Kiel has spent her life on the remote campus of Basin College in the Southern Ozarks. Once a jewel of women’s […]
Review: Happy Hour (Killer VHS #9) by Gemma Amor
HAPPY HOUR is a fantastic novella, one that perfectly captures a hectic part of recent British history, invoking such a strong sense of nostalgia.
Review: The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler
Synopsis: The dice roll. Darkness answers. House of Leaves meets Jumanji in this brilliantly original and twisted novel composed entirely of found documents, following an unwitting couple ensnared by a sinister tabletop role-playing game Cole and Lorraine playtest board games for some extra cash as they save up to buy a home. But after a […]
Review: Pictures of You by Josh Malerman
Synopsis A woman becomes the unknowing subject of an artist’s dangerous work in this intense Hitchcockian thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House.After a magical night out on the town with her boyfriend Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a beautiful, well-lit room. But the pink ceiling, the mauve […]
Review: Puppet’s Banquet by Valkyrie Loughcrewe
Synopsis Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the “real” world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no trace…until weeks later, […]
Review: Crone by Keith Rosson
Crone is the best thing that Keith Rosson has written to date. I simply cannot recommend this book any more highly.
Review: Love Never Dies by Emma Cole
Synopsis: If Sinners and the 1999 cult classic The Mummy taught Emma Cole anything in the year she spent bingeing scary movies, it’s that we love to swoon, sweat, and scream. We seem to crave the uncanny and the transgressive. Emma would know: Her day job as a Harlequin book editor revolves around steamy stories […]
Review: The Buddy Snatchers by Devin James Leonard
Synopsis Alcoholic man-child Cal McCarthy wants one thing: to stay sober long enough at his ten-year reunion to win back his high school sweetheart. But reconnecting with old friends reveals he isn’t the only one pretending to be someone he’s not—almost everyone in town seems different. Something has infiltrated Cal’s tiny Adirondack village and found […]
Review: Licorice by Kara LaReau (Illustrated by Kelly Murphy)
Synopsis A feral tabby cat is finally adopted by a loving family at 5 Manderley Road, only to realize that her new home might be haunted by the cat who lived in the house before her. Spine-chilling and heartwarming, funny and charming, Licorice is a purrfect retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for young readers, by award winning author Kara LaReau. […]