Monthly Archives: December 2021
Review: Devil House by John Darnielle
Preorder it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success–and movie adaptation–to his name, along with a series of subsequent … Continue reading
Review: Beneath the Salton Sea by Michael Paul Gonzalez
BUY HERE: Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Every memory is a recording. Nothing about the Salton Sea is normal. The sand isn’t sand. Just piles and piles of desiccated bones. There are little pockets where life clings on, … Continue reading
Review: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. “Ray Carney was only slightly bent … Continue reading
Review: Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, … Continue reading
Review: “Pearl” by Josh Malerman
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie Josh Malerman comes the legend of a strange new monster unlike any other in horror. Go to the farm just outside of town and you’ll hear it. A voice. … Continue reading
Review: Palmetto by Ania Ahlborn
Unavailable but here is a link to other Ania Ahlborn books: Amazon Synopsis: Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that’s missing is a house–one idyllic enough to fill the Norman Rockwell-shaped … Continue reading
Review: Mestiza Blood by V. Castro
Preorder Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her “a dynamic and innovative voice”) comes a short story collection of nightmares, … Continue reading
Review: Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love by Haruki Murakami
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered the … Continue reading
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