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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: 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: 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
Review: Slattery Falls by Brennan LaFaro
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Travis, Elsie, and Josh, college kids with a ghost-hunting habit, scour New England for the most interesting haunted locales. Their journey eventually leads them to Slattery Falls, a small Massachusetts town living in the … Continue reading
Review: A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together–but they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following … Continue reading
Review: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Buy here: Open Letter, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman – a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The … Continue reading
Review: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit … Continue reading
Review: History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Buy it here: Bookshop Amazon Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an … Continue reading
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