Synopsis From beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, Marla is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can’t forget. Turn the page-if you dare. Every small town has ghosts. King’s Branch has Marla. A reclusive young woman who lives with her mother in a […]
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Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson
Synopsis: Nona McKinley raised three boys in the Hester Gardens section of Medford, Michigan, an impoverished community divided by those who follow their faith in God and those who turn to crime to survive. With her drug dealer husband behind bars and her eldest son shot to death at eighteen, Nona has devoted herself to […]
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: Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw, by Eric LaRocca
Wretch is a story not to be read on an empty stomach, or one to be consumed in a low state of being. But, when you do read it, you’ll find LaRocca’s most interesting, philosophical, and conversation worthy novel to date.
Review: The Violin by Odella Howe
The Violin draws upon classic stories and Medieval themes, with a touch of paranormality, giving this gothic horror a uniquely timeless feel.
Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward
Synopsis Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies. “Gripping and beautiful, haunting and virtuously crafted…you won’t be able to stop reading.”—Virginia Feito, author of Victorian Psycho Secrets in the flames. Answers in the ashes. […]
Review: Red Empire (Rogue Team International Series Book 5) by Jonathan Maberry
Synopsis In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the team faces new and old enemies alike as a bioengineered version of The Black Death surfaces.Hundreds of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague swept through Europe, a new, more dangerous version […]
Review: The Extra (The Outsiders Sequence #1) by Annie Neugebauer
The Extra grabbed me by the throat, pulled me into its web of paranoia, dread, existential questions, and nerve-shredding, palm-sweating pace, and refused to let me go until I read the whole thing in one sitting.
Review: Sauúti Terrors edited by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy & Stephen Embleton
Synopsis: Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse, following the success of Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology. Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more, in the worlds of the […]
Review: Clearwater Falls by WJ Long III
Synopsis: They say no one leaves Clearwater Falls, maybe they’re right. In the autumn of 1997, a teenage pariah is found mutilated in the waters surrounding a quiet island town. With the sheriff’s department baffled, the boy’s mother missing and the town kept unaware of the looming threat, Deputy Isaac Stone is thrust into the […]
Review: This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud
Synopsis Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine […]
Review: A Colder Home by Jillian Maria
Synopsis Amateur cinematographer Cleo Moss hasn’t tried to make a film since her father’s death three years ago. Her cousin Noah, a director, is convinced that her latest script is the perfect opportunity to try again, but Cleo is less sure. Those reservations grow when a blizzard nearly runs them off the road on their […]