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Review: Brat by Gabriel Smith

August 6, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Gabriel’s skin is falling off. His dad is dead. He owes his editor a novel. His girlfriend won’t answer his calls. Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel’s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents’ old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A […]

Filed Under: Bizarro, Body Horror, Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Grief, Haunted House, Meta horror, Psychological, Weird Tagged With: Brat, Gabriel Smith, Meta, Penguin, Scribner

Review: My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

June 18, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Spirits are drawn to salt, be it blood or tears. Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth―strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries―is the light of Roos’ life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos’ backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.  Soon, […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Grief, Haunted House, Historical Horror, Occult, Paranormal, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: Historical horror, Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing, Netherlands, Poisoned Pen Press, Queer Horror

Review: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

May 23, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked their New England town. And it is the story of Sky, Wilder’s one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir to […]

Filed Under: Bizarro, Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Meta horror, Occult, Psychological, Reviews, Serial Killers, Weird Tagged With: Auto fiction, Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound, Metafiction, Metafictional, Viper books

Review: Words Made Of Flesh by R.A Busby

May 14, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: New Bedford, 1899 Harrison Quire has a problem. Haunted by memories of his lover, he’s only lingered on the periphery of a life. When he visits the Whisperers’ Club to hear a few horror stories, he never expects he’ll become one. Late one winter night, Harrison hears old George Burgess tell his tale of an unusual […]

Filed Under: Cosmic, Fear For All, Gothic, Reviews, Supernatural, Weird Tagged With: Cemetery Gates, Cemetery Gates Media, Indie Horror, Indie publisher, Queer Horror, R.A Busby, Trauma, Victorian, Words Made of Flesh

Review: The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry

May 9, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Single mom Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so when she’s offered a job cleaning for revered horror director Javier Castillo, she leaps at the chance. His forbidding Chicago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to bottom with terrifying props and costumes, as well as glittering awards from his decades-long career making […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Gothic, Haunted House, Occult, Psychological, Reviews Tagged With: Christina Henry, The House That Horror Built, Titan, Titan Books

Review: Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi

May 4, 2024 by Charlie Battison Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon them in this horror masterpiece from the bestselling author of Come with Me. Maybe this is a ghost story… Andrew Larimer thought he left the past behind. But when he receives a late-night phone call from […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Paranormal, Reviews, Supernatural Tagged With: Ronald Malfi, Small Town Horror, Titan Books

Review: Midwestern Gothic by Scott Thomas

March 30, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: In The Door in the Field, a construction worker’s bad day becomes a far worse night when drinks at an off-the-books bar send him down an unforeseeably bloody path. In The Boy in the Woods, something evil has infected the counselors at a summer camp, and a young boy will have to do anything he can […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Psychological, Reviews, Slasher Tagged With: Gothic, Inkshares, Kansas, Midwestern Gothic, Scott Thomas

Review: Skin Thief by Susan Palumbo

February 7, 2024 by Adam Bassett Leave a Comment

A book review for Skin Thief: a short story collection that explores our sense of identity and belonging mixed with some delightful gothic themes.

Filed Under: Fear For All, Gothic, LGBTQ+, Paranormal, Reviews, Short Stories, Supernatural, Witches Tagged With: Book Review, Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo

Review: Nestlings by Nat Cassidy

January 30, 2024 by Josh Hanson Leave a Comment

Synopsis Ana and Reid need a break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling―with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia, but he can’t explain the needle-like bite marks on their baby. Review […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Folk, Gothic, Monsters, Occult, Paranormal, Religious Horror, Reviews, Vampires

Review: The Folly by Gemma Amor

January 28, 2024 by Josh Hanson Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother, and has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. Finally he is set free, but they can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her mother’s blood. Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Haunted House, Psychological, Reviews, Supernatural

Review: The Fisherman by John Langan

January 5, 2024 by Charlie Battison Leave a Comment

Synopsis: In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Monsters, Reviews, Supernatural, Zombies Tagged With: Fear for all, Horror, John Langan

Review: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

December 27, 2023 by Josh Hanson Leave a Comment

Synopsis As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Gothic, Monsters, Reviews, Vampires

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