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Review: To Those Willing To Drown by Mark Matthews

May 13, 2025 by Michael Hicks Leave a Comment

Synopsis: To save her daughter’s soul, a grieving mother must battle a sinister pastor who feeds off the cremains of the dead and haunts a lake community. “This is goddamn wonderful. It’s both beautiful and horrible.”—Julie Hutchings, author of The Harpy“A beautiful, seismic novel.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes When […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Fear For All, Folk, Ghosts, Grief, Reviews, Serial Killers, Supernatural Tagged With: Book Review, Horror, Self Published

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: Jackknife (The Shivers Collection) by Joe Hill

May 7, 2025 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Ruined by scandal, Dennis Lange is hoping for a comeback. Selling the story of a cursed tree could make his future—if it doesn’t kill him—in this monstrous short story from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill. Dennis awakens something evil when he removes a decades-old jackknife from the trunk of a gnarled old sycamore. Once […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Occult, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: #AmazonOriginalStories, #Jackknife, #JoeHill, #Netgalley

Review: Pay the Piper by George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus

April 29, 2025 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis A terrifying tale of supernatural horror set in a cursed Louisiana bayou, from the minds of legendary director George Romero and bestselling author Daniel Kraus. In 2019, while sifting through University of Pittsburgh Library System’s George A. Romero Archival Collection, novelist Daniel Kraus turned up a surprise: a half-finished novel called Pay the Piper, a […]

Filed Under: Cosmic, Fear For All, Folk, Occult, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: #DanielKraus, #GeorgeA.Romero, #UnionSquare&Co

Review: This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are by Stephen Howard

April 28, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Simon and Priya’s young daughter has died in a tragic accident. Determined to heal their fracturing marriage, the couple move to the North Yorkshire Moors to renovate a dilapidated rural cottage. However, they just can’t process their grief as increasingly eerie events unfold. A child’s ghostly figure appears on the moors, doors lock themselves, […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Grief, Haunted House, Reviews Tagged With: Northern Weird Project, Stephen Howard, This House Isn't Haunted But We Are, Wild Hunt Books

Review: The Staircase In The Woods by Chuck Wendig

April 5, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: ive high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what. On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere One friend walks up – but never comes back down. Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Haunted House, Psychological, Reviews Tagged With: Chuck Wendig, Del Rey, Del Rey Books, Penguin Random House, The Staircase In The Woods

Review: The Poorly Made & Other Things by Sam Rebelein

March 31, 2025 by chilcottharry Leave a Comment

A collection of stories that create a new legend, a folkloric telling of stories that build the horror that is Renfield County. And a riveting read from start to finish!

Filed Under: Body Horror, Cosmic, Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Occult, Possession, Reviews, Supernatural, Weird Tagged With: Book Review, Books, Horror, Horror Books, Sam Rebelein, Short Stories, The Poorly Made & Other Things, Titan Books

Review: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

March 30, 2025 by Josh Hanson Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. But none of that seems so terrible when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister, Delilah, being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer shouted two words: bat eater. […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Ghosts, Grief, Historical Horror, Psychological, Reviews, Serial Killers

Review: Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

March 16, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes ashore to rent an abandoned […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Historical Horror, Reviews Tagged With: Eynhallow, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Tim McGregor

Review: Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths

February 14, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Who will cast the first stone?1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and Johnny, a nomadic singer and farm hand. At hearthside and […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Historical Horror, Horror Romance, Reviews Tagged With: Doubleday, Folk, Gabrielle Griffiths, Penguin, Penguin Random House

Review: (Don’t) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski

February 1, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Leo is just trying to catch his train back home to the village of Malacstone in North East England. But there’s disorder at the station, and when a loud young man heading for London boards the train accidentally, a usually easy journey descends into darkness and chaos. The train soon breaks down in the […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Reviews Tagged With: (Don't) Call Mum, Matt Wesolowski, Northern Weird Project, Wild Hunt, Wild Hunt Books

Review: The Folly by Gemma Amor

January 18, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother. She has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. Finally, mid-pandemic, Owen is set free, but the debt-riddled pair can no longer afford (or bear) to live in the family home- a house last decorated by a dead woman’s blood.  […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Haunted House, Psychological, Reviews Tagged With: Datura Books, Gemma Amor, The Folly

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