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Coming of age

REVIEW: Feeders by Matt Serafini

May 20, 2025 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS When a video depicting the brutal murder of a former classmate leaks online, Kylie Bennington’s—whose dreams of becoming a successful influencer remain frustratingly elusive—curiosity gets the better of her, leading to the discovery of an off-the-grid social media app called MonoLife. As it turns out, there are certain cryptic rules in the user agreement […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Coming of age, Demons, Fear For All, Monsters, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: Book Review, Demons, Feeders, Gallery Books, Horror, Horror Book, horror book review, Influencer

Review: The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock

May 19, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Gothic, Grief, Psychological, Religious Horror, Reviews, Serial Killers Tagged With: Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All The Time, Vintage books

Review: The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clark

May 14, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: London, 1887: At the abandoned apartment of a missing young woman, a dossier of evidence is collected, ordered chronologically, and sent to the Chief Inspector of the London Metropolitan Police. It contains a frightening correspondence between an inquisitive journalist, Miss Emily Gibson, and the woman Gibson thinks may be the infamous Mrs. Lovett—Sweeney Todd’s […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Coming of age, Fear For All, Historical Horror, Horror Romance, Revenge Story, Reviews, Serial Killers Tagged With: Corrine Leigh Clark, David Demchuk, Soho, The Butcher's Daughter, The Butcher's Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett, Titan Books

Review: The Lamb by Lucy Rose

May 12, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Folk, Reviews, Serial Killers Tagged With: Hachette, Lucy Rose, The Lamb, W&N, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Review: Polybius by Collin Armstrong

April 29, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Having recently moved to the gentrifying seaside town of Tasker Bay with her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi’s mind is saving up enough money for her escape to Silicon Valley. Though it’s owned by the shadiest resident in town, she takes a job at the dingy arcade Home Video World. Pining […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Paranormal, Possession, Reviews Tagged With: Collin Armstrong, Gallery Books, Polybius, Simon and Schuster

Review: Fitted Sheet by Ian Rogers

April 15, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: An innocent game takes a turn for the worse when 7-year-old Greta pulls a bedsheet over her head and ends up becoming a real ghost. What follows is an exhilarating journey into a world of fantasy and wonder. Review: Ian Rogers’ “Fitted Sheet,” is a wistful, whimsical, perhaps even cute story, with a gentle […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Ghosts, Monsters, Reviews Tagged With: Fitted Sheet, Ian Rogers, Rapture, Rapture Publishing

Review: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

April 11, 2025 by Josh Hanson Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Ghosts, Grief, Haunted House, Indigenous, Reviews

Review: Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman

March 27, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: ‘Can I go inside your heart?’ When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Creature Feature, Demons, Fear For All, Haunted House, Monsters, Paranormal, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: Del Rey, Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman, Pan Macmillan, Tor Nightfire

Review: Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel

March 21, 2025 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Most Anticipated by Goodreads, People, BookRiot, Reactor, Screenrant, and more! For fans of Jordan Peele’s films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen To Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel from electrifying debut talent Neena Viel. Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Demons, Fear For All, Ghosts, Grief, Lovecraftian, Psychological, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: #ListentoYourSister, #NeenaViel, #St.Martin'sGriffin, NetGalley

Review: American Rapture by C.J. Leede

February 20, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin… The […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Fear For All, Post-Apocalyptic, Psychological, Religious Horror, Reviews, Weird, Zombies Tagged With: American Rapture, C.J. Leede, Tor, Tor Nightfire

REVIEW: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy

February 19, 2025 by Seanchalant Leave a Comment

SYNOPSIS One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy’s father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy’s increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Coming of age, Creature Feature, Fear For All, Grief, Monsters, Reviews, Supernatural, Werewolves Tagged With: Book Review, Fear for all, Horror, Nat Cassidy, Tor Nightfire, Werewolf, When the Wolf Comes Home

Review: Children of The Dark 2: The Night Flyers

February 17, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Last summer, sixteen-year-old Will Burgess lost many of the people he loved most. Now he’s imprisoned in the Sunny Woods Rehabilitation Center, a facility for troubled youths. Separated from his surviving loved ones and terrified of a change inside him, Will is tormented by a new group of bullies and a sadistic government doctor. […]

Filed Under: Coming of age, Creature Feature, Fear For All, Monsters, Reviews Tagged With: Cemetery Dance, Children of The Dark 2, Jonathan Janz

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