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Grief

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: A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez

March 12, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Body Horror, Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Grief, Reviews Tagged With: A Sunny Place for Shady People, Granta, Granta Books, Translated fiction

Review: Phengaris by Anna Orridge

February 21, 2025 by Michael Hicks Leave a Comment

Synopsis There’s something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood. Mark Warner never noticed it before. He’s there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything. Birds sing in the wood. But their rhythms seem wrong somehow. Insects crawl and nest, but not where you’d expect them […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Cosmic, Fear For All, Grief, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Horror, Nefarious Bat Press

Review: The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling

February 20, 2025 by Michael Hicks Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Cosmic, Fear For All, Grief, Lovecraftian, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Horror, Shortwave Publishing, Todd Keisling

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: At The Bottom of The Garden by Camilla Bruce

January 24, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Clara Woods is a killer—and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace—or so she’s always thought. Then the girls arrive. […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Ghosts, Gothic, Grief, Occult, Reviews Tagged With: At The Bottom of The Garden, Camilla Bruce, Del Rey, Del Rey Books, Oneworld publications

Review: The Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam Rebelein

January 7, 2025 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: There’s something wrong in Renfield County. It’s in the water, the soil, the wood. But worst of all, it’s in the minds of the residents, slowly driving them mad. When Lawrence Renfield massacred his family and drew The Giant in his farmhouse with their blood, no one imagined the repercussions. At the very least, […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Bizarro, Creature Feature, Fear For All, Grief, Monsters, Paranormal, Psychological, Reviews, Serial Killers, Weird Tagged With: Edenville, Renfield County, Sam Rebelein, The Poorly Made, The Poorly Made and Other Things, Titan, Titan Books, William Morrow

Review: Jingle Hel by T.P. Theyson

January 2, 2025 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Long ago a dark elf entered the underworld to hold audience with Hel, the goddess of the dead. He offered her a proposition to make him King, one that she refused. Angered by this, the elf gathered an army formed out of greed of those who wished to overthrow the goddess and take what […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Horror, Fear For All, Grief, Monsters, Norse Mythology, Religious Horror, Reviews, Short Stories Tagged With: #JingleHel, #TPTheyson

Review: The Thing in Christmas Town by Iseult Murphy

December 27, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Welcome to Christmas Town, where it is Christmas every day!Visit the town where your wishes come true. Recapture the magic of your youth. Find love and happiness.You’ll never want to leave. Christmas was once Diane’s favourite holiday, but she can’t face it after the tragic accident that took her husband’s life shortly before the […]

Filed Under: Body Horror, Fear For All, Grief, Reviews, Slasher Tagged With: #Christmas, #IseultMurphy, #SilverThistlePress, #TheThinginChristmasTown

Review: The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions by Emma. E Murray

November 23, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: In these eighteen stories, Emma E. Murray navigates uncharted waters of love, lust, and loss, descending into that most darkest of places: the human (and inhuman) heart.Amidst the spiral and churn, you will hear frighteningly realistic tales of parental regret, the death of innocence, carnal yearning, and creeping evil, among other voices of the […]

Filed Under: Anthology, Fear For All, Grief, Reviews Tagged With: Emma E Murray, The Drowning Machine, The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions, Undertaker books

Review: The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti by Stephen Graham Jones

November 20, 2024 by George Dunn Leave a Comment

Synopsis: If drinking mercury from a thermometer didn’t kill him, maybe spray painting in an unventilated garage would. Or so Nolan’s father thought. One inspired yet failed suicide attempt after another, each with a note to his son—with only a hint of accusation. But as Nolan sits in an empty office building, the last customer […]

Filed Under: Bizarro, Fear For All, Grief, Psychological, Reviews, Sci-Fi Horror, Weird Tagged With: Open Road Media, SGJ, Stephen Graham Jones, The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

Review: Kill Your Darling by Clay Mcleod Chapman

November 13, 2024 by Josh Hanson Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fear For All, Grief, Meta horror, Psychological, Revenge Story

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