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 […]
Grief
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, […]
Review: The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock
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 […]
Review: One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford
Synopsis Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband. Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. The country is now in a period of respite, the government seemingly […]
Review: To Those Willing To Drown by Mark Matthews
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 […]
Review: From Daylight to Madness (The Hotel #1) by Jennifer Anne Gordon
Synopsis: On an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine, a Hotel looms over the shore, an ever-present gray lady that stands strong like a guard, keeping watch. For many who come here, this island is a sanctuary and a betrayal. This is a place where memories linger like ghosts, and the ephemeral […]
Review: This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are by Stephen Howard
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, […]
Review: The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling
Synopsis “Todd Keisling is already a mainstay of modern horror, and this book proves why. A wildly original and unsettling tale, The Sundowner’s Dance is an unforgettable journey of grief, cosmic horror, and making the most of the time we’ve got left. Pick up a copy of this book immediately.” -Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant […]
Review: Rekt by Alex Gonzalez
Synopsis: A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, Alex Gonzalez’s rekt traces a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here. > be me, 26> about to end it all> feels good, man Once, Sammy Dominguez thought he knew how the world worked. The ugly things in […]
Review: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
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 […]
Review: What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman
Synopsis: After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market. It’s there that she connects with old high school […]