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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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