Category Archives: horror book reviews

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: > rekt by Alex Gonzalez

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, Alex Gonzalez’s rekt traces a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here. > be me, 26> about to … 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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Review: Starlet by Danger Slater

Buy it here: Ghoulish, Bookshop Synopsis: FAME. FORTUNE. JELLYFISH. When an aspiring young actress accepts an invite to a fading A-lister’s home, she soon learns the terrifying secrets of the Hollywood Elite. Review: I was catching up on episodes of … Continue reading

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Review: Crash by J.G. Ballard

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Ballard’s hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a “TV scientist” turned “nightmare angel of the highways,” experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than … Continue reading

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Review: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood and Emilia Hart’s Weyward. For what do you hunger, Lenore?Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their … Continue reading

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Review: Death in the Downline by Maria Abrams

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: It’s multi-level murder in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid. Drew thought she was destined to rise above her … Continue reading

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Review: North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Nathan Ballingrud’s Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and … Continue reading

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Review: Zola by D.E. McCluskey

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Gordon’s name was a joke. It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of cheese, and the fact that she had been … Continue reading

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