Synopsis A fresh start for a marriage tested in more ways than one. An old house that has lurked, empty and bare, for decades after being deemed inhospitable. A husband who only has his eye set on one prize. A wife who’s not sure she still wants what was once their shared dream. A new […]
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Review: The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth
Synopsis From the author of White Horse (“Twisty and electric.” —The New York Times Book Review) comes a terrifying and resonant novel about a woman who uses her unique gift to learn the truth about her sister’s death. Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of […]
Review: D7 by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis A haunted jukebox at an out-of-the-way dive bar not only lures patrons, but it doesn’t allow them to leave. This haunting novelette comes from the author of the novels Don’t Let Them Get You Down, A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. “Nobody is safe in a Fracassi story” Laird Barron Review Huge thanks […]
Review: Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman
Synopsis: To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: ‘Can I go inside your heart?’ When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and […]
Review: This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are by Stephen Howard
Synopsis PART OF THE NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT 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 […]
Review: Gothictown by Emily Carpenter
Gothictown got its hooks in me and would not let go. It’s carefully-crafted slow build, then a frantic race to the end.
Review: Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Synopsis: During a grocery run to her local shopping center, Shell Pine sees a ‘HELP NEEDED’ sign in a flower shop window. She’s just left her fiancé, lost her job, and moved home to her parents’ house. She has to make a change and bring some good into her life, so she goes inside and […]
Review: Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel
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 […]
Review: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Synopsis: Iðunn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause. When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same – have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing […]
Review: Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
Synopsis Midwestern Mayhem! Remember the ’90s? Well…the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn’t, and they’re living in the year 1997. That’s because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town’s trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it’s up to nineteen-year-old Realene and […]
Review: Eynhallow by Tim McGregor
Synopsis: ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes ashore to rent an abandoned […]
Review: The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz
Synopsis: “In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage and the public humiliation that ensued. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget his ex-wife are interrupted by a lovely young woman he encounters on a London-bound train. Her name is […]