As the Snow Gathers is what happens when Historical Folk Horror and Eco Horror come together to have a heartbreaking baby named Righteous Fury. It is such an incredibly lyrical and atmospheric read that even reading it in 30° degree heat you’d feel the cold of a snow covered, 1860s, isolated Canadian logging town, seep deep in your bones. The perfect winter read, it is a story that is both incredibly soft and tender, as it is unforgiving and painfully sharp as frozen wind on your face.
Historical Horror
Review: Our Cut of Salt By Deena Helm
SYNOPSIS THE HOUSE IS WAITING FOR YOU. From a bold new Palestinian voice comes Our Cut of Salt – an unflinching, sinister and moving take on the haunted house novel, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and The Haunting of Hill House.‘The essential haunted house story of our moment in history’ Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Black Flame There is something haunting […]
Review: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Synopsis SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MAIKA MONROE, THOMASIN MCKENZIE AND JASON ISSACS A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker, TIME, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public Library • The American Booksellers Association’s #1 Indie Next Great Read for February 2025 “[A] savage thriller… Victorian Psycho offers a […]
Review: The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley
Synopsis A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth Kostova Paris, 1869. The Théâtre Saint-Siméon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black […]
Review: The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Synopsis Creepy, sumptuous and incredibly gripping, The Brides is a feminist gothic horror about the three women who became the brides of Dracula – and the fourth who managed to escape . . . “Come to me, and be mine for eternity.” 1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, […]
The Eye of Leviathan by M.A Carrick
From the author of The Mask of Mirrors comes a sweeping adventure set in a world where fae secretly walk amongst those who seek to persecute them. In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivalled power, exploiting the Otherworld’s most precious resources for their own gain. Estevan […]
Review: Girl from the Ashes by India Hill Brown
Synopsis Two friends must dig into their town’s forgotten past and uncover the forgotten truth — before their whole town goes up in flames. For fans of Small Spaces and Mary Downing Hahn, a spooky ghost story from the award-winning author of The Forgotten Girl and The Girl in the Lake. Burn it all down. Gianna and Carter […]
Review: Traps & Specters by Philip Fracassi
I knew I was going to get a bunch of well written horror stories, but I wasn’t ready for how many – if not all – of them turned out to be nasty, biting, sharp tales that really pull no punches
Review: Sarafina by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis: During one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, three brothers fighting for the Confederate army decide to go AWOL and make their way home, willing to risk execution rather than be killed in a losing war. After several exhausting weeks of rough terrain, the brothers find a miracle deep in the […]
Review: Lost In The Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan
Lost In The Dark has finally cemented John Langan as a new favourite, auto-buy author.
Review: The Terror by Dan Simmons
Synopsis: The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with […]
Review: The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Synopsis: ‘Come to me, and be mine for eternity’ 1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, Lucy, hurries from London to comfort her, with chaperone and lady’s maid in tow. But lady’s maid Alice, blessed and cursed with the Sight, is tormented by terrifying visions. When chaperone […]