Synopsis “Through apocalypse, dystopia, and renewal, the throughline of empathy, love, and human determination in Barrington’s THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS keeps the story profoundly human. An impressive debut that leaves the reader with a bittersweet, hard-won hope that feels especially resonant in our uncertain political moment.” – Seth Haddon, author of VOLATILE MEMORY […]
Horror
Review: The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson
Synopsis Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson invites you to Abernathy House. A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death. At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy […]
Review: Blood Drunk by Ben Shepherd
Dead good Synopsis Freddie Burns just wants ten pints, football violence, and the chance to take over his uncle’s fading gangland empire. But when a routine hit goes tits up, Freddie discovers a new kind of organised crime – one where vampires are real and monsters hide in plain sight. Good thing Freddie has a […]
Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi
Synopsis: A new collection of short stories and novellas from Bram Stoker Award finalist Philip Fracassi, featuring an introduction by NYT bestselling author Matt Dinniman. From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, disturb, and ensnare readers in a dark web of […]
Review: Her Bloody Vengeance by N C Scrimgeour
Roses are red, violets are blue, this book is grim and it’s good for you Synopsis Alderose Mortimer is no stranger to grief. As she roams from one bleak countryside village to another, killing monsters for coin, she’s haunted by the loss of her first love, slain on their wedding day with two puncture wounds […]
Review: This Movie Doesn’t End The Way We Want – Hailey Piper
This Movie Doesn’t End The Way We Want is an exciting fistfight through dark hidden memories, personified trauma rising from the depths of your mind, and a treatise on why cinema popcorn is the best kind of popcorn!
Like Creature Features? Watch these Movies
I am back! After tackling my Zombie movies / shows lists, I moved on to Slashers and Shark Week recommendations. It’s with the shark films that my mind really started to go toward all-out creature features. Another favorite sub-genre (although at this point I suppose it’s just all of horror really), and one that’s filled […]
Cover Reveal: Suffer Their Going by Iseult Murphy
Blurb A dead husband. A ruined home. A mind in pieces. A young widow clinging to the remains of her shattered life. 1900, Ireland. A country poised for change. Eleanor Browne. The sole survivor of the fire that took her husband, her home, and almost her mind. After a stint in a sanatorium, the only […]
The Hallows by HL Tinsley
Synopsis: The Hallow serum was once sacred to the Auld Bloods. Used to gain access to their lost ancestral powers, now it is regulated and administered by the powerful Providence Company. Evolved from the echelons of the Auld Church, the company exists to maintain the balance between faith, science and politics. But keeping the peace […]
Review: #VanDeath by Brian Asman
Synopsis From the author of Man, F*ck This House (And Other Disasters) Two feuding #VanLife influencers must put aside their differences in order to survive when they are stalked by a masked killer in a remote stretch of Death Valley. Morgan and Jasper are the couple everyone wants to be: beautiful, successful, and constantly mobile. Their […]
Review: Lost In The Garden by Adam S. Leslie
Adam S. Leslie crafts a narrative that is imaginative and visually stunning, to the point where I can feel the hot breeze on my skin and I can see the pollen in the late evening air
Review: The Rouse by China Miéville
Synopsis: From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making – a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur’s life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger […]