If you have a pulse and enjoy anything close to horror, odds are you’ve heard the immense buzz around Oz Perkins’ latest film, Longlegs. The focus of this box-office hit is a string of bizarre, unsolved cases thought the be committed by a serial killer known as Longlegs. If this very short synopsis doesn’t ring […]
Crime Horror
Review: Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons
Synopsis A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons is a crime horror novel which blends It Follows and The Outsider, with a pinch of The Evil Dead, in which a criminal and the cop she’s taken hostage must find their way to safety – pursued by threats both human and supernatural – after a failed bank robbery. In the grisly aftermath […]
Review: The Gathering by CJ Tudor
Synopsis A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man Deadhart, Alaska. 873. Living. In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained […]
Review: Forgotten Sisters by Cynthia Pelayo
Synopsis A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psychological suspense by a multiple Bram Stoker Award–nominated author. Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River. They’re tethered to a disquieting past, and with nowhere else to go, nothing can part them […]
Review: Fever House by Keith Rosson
Synopsis A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all. When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in […]