Category Archives: fiction

Review: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer … Continue reading

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Review: Killer on the Road/The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A must-have collector’s item for horror fans, comprised of two novellas, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones. The Babysitter Lives When high school senior Charlotte agrees … Continue reading

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Review: King Sorrow by Joe Hill

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when … Continue reading

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Review: Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. … Continue reading

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Review: Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the cute outfits … Continue reading

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Review: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is … Continue reading

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Review: The Vampire of Plainfield by Kristopher Rufty

Synopsis: Plainfield, Wisconsin. 1954. Robbing graves to appease his malevolent desires, Ed Gein inadvertently sets loose an ancient vampire on the unsuspecting town of Plainfield. As the number of missing persons rises, Ed realizes the vampire’s ultimate plan has been … Continue reading

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Review: Daddy’s Boy by Michael David Wilson

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Wentworth is at his wit’s end. He has no money, his cat’s been kidnapped, and every time he tries to kill himself, he fails. Worst of all, he lives in Kidderminster. But sometimes you’re … Continue reading

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Review: The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents. Five high school friends are bonded … Continue reading

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Review: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World. In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks … Continue reading

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