Category Archives: horror book reviews
Review: Ring Shout by P. Djéli Clark
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation … Continue reading
Review: Beyond the Planet of the Vampires
Buy it here: Indie Pubs, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: A speculative avant-garde queer horror novel that reads like an erotic vampiric nightmare directed by Jodorowsky playing at a ’50s drive-in. Beyond the Planet of the Vampires is a gay pulp horror novel … Continue reading
Review: Never Flinch by Stephen King
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly … Continue reading
Review: Dollface by Lindy Ryan
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Barbie meets Scream with a 90s nostalgia twist in this horror romp from Bless Your Heart author Lindy Ryan. Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with … Continue reading
Review: Gutmouth by Gabino Iglesias
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: He has a mouth in his gut. An obnoxious, toothy, foul-mouthed, pig of a mouth. Luckily, his girlfriend doesn’t seem to mind. Marie, the one-legged stripper and cyber-prostitute love of his life is very … Continue reading
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
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
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
Review: Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the author of the “exciting, suspenseful, horrifying” (Stephen King) Fever House, a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted by—the vampire that slaughtered their family. It’s the winter of 1975, and … Continue reading
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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