The author describes this story as for fans of the “horror movies of the 1980s and 1990s that were green lit by studio executives who were snorting their lunches”, and suffice it to say that is a most perfect description. However, I’ll go one step further and say that, to me, this book felt like the raw poignancy and cursed carnival vibes of del Toro’s Nightmare Alley meets a Courage the Cowardly Dog episode, in all its macabre, gory, occasionally psychedelic, and darkly humorous glory
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Review: The Cold House by A.G. Slatter
Synopsis: Writer Everly Bainbridge’s life is left in ruins when her husband takes their child to the supermarket one day and a lorry collides with their car. After the accident, a lawyer appears on her doorstep and tells her her husband was not who he said he was and she is a very rich widow. […]
Review: Itch! by Gemma Amor
Synopsis: Josie is at rock bottom, living a haunted existence after returning to her isolated hometown on the edge of the Forest of Dean. But the tall, dense pine trees are not the only things casting shadows across her skin.When Josie stumbles across a decaying, ant-infested body in the woods, she plummets into a downward […]
Review: Kill Your Darling by Clay McLeod Chapman [audiobook]
Synopsis The body of Glenn Partridge’s 15-year-old son was discovered in a vacant lot nearly forty years ago. The police are still no closer to finding the murderer decades later. Glenn refuses to let the memory of his son fade—or let anyone else within this small working-class community forget. His long-suffering wife signs him up […]
Review: Good Boy by Neil McRobert
Synopsis: After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small Northern town, a woman spies from her window a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance. However, when she confronts him, the man’s true purpose is far more chilling than she could have imagined and the history of the […]
Review: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Synopsis Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality. A USA Today bestseller!ABA Indie Bookseller bestseller! “Get your claws into this one, horror fiends. It’s terrific. . . . Sink your teeth into a classic.”―Stephen King “A crazy-good, balls-to-the-wall horror […]
Review: Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman (Audiobook)
Synopsis: “This book is a literary punch to the heart.” —New York Times After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-of-service payphone in hopes of talking out their grief and saying goodbye to loved ones, only for it to begin ringing on its own. As more […]
Review: Stay on the Line by Clay McLeod Chapman
Stay on the Line is a deeply human novelette about the loss of a loved one. It’s the kind of story you can’t help but finish in one sitting.
Review: Shoot Me In The Face on a Beautiful Day by Emma E. Murray
Synopsis: Birdie lost everything when her son died. Now, on track to rebuild her life, she has to evade her abusive partner Russ’s rage and manipulations while also worrying about a home-invading serial killer that has descended on her community. Told through multiple POVs, from a decomposing murder victim to Birdie’s day-to-day battle with domestic […]
Review: The Sound of Suffering by Mark Towse
Synopsis Malcolm Turner has suffered from what he thought was tinnitus all his life. Of late, the episodes make him feel like his brain is bleeding, depriving him of sleep and working away at his already faltering marriage and stale career. Little hope remains. Desperation leads him to a chatroom and a group of similar […]
Review: Their Monstrous Hearts by Yiğit Turhan
Synopsis: A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo’s apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died, and Riccardo has inherited her villa in Milan along with her famed butterfly collection. The struggling writer is out of options. He’s hoping the change of scenery in Milan will inspire him, and maybe there will be some […]
Review: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Synopsis The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy’s haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction! “A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant.”—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie Walking through his own house at night, […]