Author Archives: ghostvillehero
Review: “Beautiful/Grotesque” edited by Sam Richard
Buy it here: Godless, Weirdpunk Books, Amazon Synopsis: Five authors of strange fiction, Roland Blackburn (Seventeen Names For Skin), Jo Quenell (The Mud Ballad), Katy Michelle Quinn (Winnie), Joanna Koch (The Wingspan of Severed Hands), and Sam Richard (Sabbath of … Continue reading
Review: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet they are all … Continue reading
Review: Mother Maggot by Simon McHardy
Buy it Here: Potter’s Grove Press, Godless.com Synopsis: After a fried-chicken-fuelled sex romp, Eddie embarks on a perverted odyssey. Murder, torture, geriatrics, bugs and big beautiful women all fail to satisfy him until he meets the Maggot Mother—a nymphomaniac, cannibal, … Continue reading
Review: Snowball by Gregory Bastianelli
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A group of motorists become stranded on a lonely stretch of highway during a Christmas Eve blizzard and fight for survival against an unnatural force in the storm. The gathered survivors realize a tenuous … Continue reading
Review: Goblin by Josh Malerman
Preorder: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, a novella collection in which every story reveals a sinister secret about a mysterious small town Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller … Continue reading
Review: Boinking Bizarro edited by Danger Slater and Brian Asman
Buy it here: Death’s Head Press, Amazon Synopsis: From the demented minds of Bizarro authors Danger Slater and Brian Asman comes Boinking Bizarro, an anthology of weird literary parodies. You’ve never seen the classics quite like this. We’ve taken that … Continue reading
Review: Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
Synopsis At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, genre-warping new novel from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot “It’s 1992 and I’m the Gloomiest Child Queen.” Welcome to 1990s Norway. White … Continue reading
Review: The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joanna Koch
Buy it here: Weirdpunk Books, Amazon Synopsis: Three Women, One Battle A world gone mad. Cities abandoned. Dreams invade waking minds. An invisible threat lures those who oppose its otherworldly violence to become acolytes of a nameless cult. As a … Continue reading
Review: Later by Stephen King
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an … Continue reading
