Synopsis: A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside. Review: After the wacky insanity of Mary and the genuine horror of Nestlings, […]
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Review: Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson
Synopsis: Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn’t want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family’s big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she’s certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask […]
Review: Greely’s Cove by John Gideon
Synopsis: The first miracle was a joyful one- the sudden cure of a young autistic boy in Greely’s Cove. The other miracles were different- stranger, darker miracles like murder… and resurrection. Now every man and woman in Greely’s Cove is afraid. Afraid of things that walk in the night. Afraid of the house on the […]
Review: Bone White by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis: Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims’ graves, in remote Dread’s Hand, Alaska. It’s not even a town; more like the bad memory of a town. The same bit of wilderness where his twin brother went missing a year ago. As the bodies are exhumed, Paul […]
Review: Crushing Snails by Emma E. Murray
Is that the crunch of a snail shell or my sanity crumbling, who can say Synopsis Winnie Campbell is sixteen and a burgeoning serial killer. Her father blames her for her mother’s death, dotes on her little sister, and executes increasingly cruel punishments meant to humiliate Winnie. As the punishments morph into torture, she begins […]
Review: Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
Synopsis: Willow’s worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation. After sitcom star Willow tweeted herself into infamy and stumbled blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent shipped her off to Camp Castaway. Tucked away in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer […]
REVIEW: I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
SYNOPSIS Lamesa, Texas, July 1989 It’s the summer before senior year for best friends Tolly Driver and Amber Dennison. They’re not in the marching band, they’re not in the FFA-they don’t really count. Amber’s the only Native student in town, and Tolly’s only on the radar due to his father’s death. This is all about […]
Review: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Synopsis: 1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew […]
REVIEW: Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
SYNOPSIS Willow’s worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation. After sitcom star Willow tweets herself into infamy and stumbles blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer […]
Review: Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
Synopsis: In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked their New England town. And it is the story of Sky, Wilder’s one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir to […]
Review: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Hell has never been so chilling Synopsis Summer, 1993 – a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film. Steeped in mystery and tragedy, the film has taken on a mythic, cult renown, despite only three of the original scenes ever being released to the public. Decades later, a […]
Review: A Spectre Is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter
Synopsis: REAP WHAT YOU SOW In the wake of a series of panic attacks, isolated and introverted Carina takes a friend up on an offer: go to Greentree, Oregon, escape her abusive ex, and start a new life. But upon arrival, the town is stranger than Carina could have ever imagined. For one, they still […]