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The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
Continuing the theme from last week of "authors I only discovered in the last year", this week's review is the author of one of my 2021...
Slewfoot - Brom
I've been fascinated by witchcraft and the occult for as long as I can remember. When I was about 10, all the kids in all the schools in...
Terror in the Trench - Jay Alexander
The ocean is one of the most terrifying real life things out there. Whether it's the unnerving creatures that have evolved to live at...
White is for Witching - Helen Oyeyemi
Some people like their art and their literature abstract, filled with metaphor and suggestion. I wish I could tell you that I was one of...
The Hunger - Alma Katsu
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled on a tv show called Yellowjackets. It follows a highschool girls football team after their plane to the...
Thin Air - Michelle Paver
Call me morbid (everyone else does), but there's something that really fascinates me about mountaineering disasters. Since I first...
Anno Dracula - Kim Newman
Since I started this blog last August, this is the third vampire book I've read. I have to admit, this is quite unusual for me. Before...
Dead Silence - S. A. Barnes
Alright so I have finally managed it. I actually managed to get the timing right on a Ladies of Horror Fiction Readalong. I've been too...
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
As we have already established on this blog, I have always been a voracious reader. When I was a kid and my family went on holiday, half...
When The Reckoning Comes - LaTanya McQueen
Welp, I've done it again. The first Ladies of Horror Fiction Readalong of 2022 and I've messed it up again. I started this month's book a...
Certain Dark Things - Silvia Moreno Garcia
For this month's Ladies of Horror Fiction read-a-long, we headed over to Mexico, for some heady, dark vampire vibes. I managed to mess up...
My Heart Is A Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones
You know how it goes. You have some time to kill in town, so you think "I'll just pop into Waterstones, just to look - I won't buy...
Skin Folk - Nalo Hopkinson
It was my birthday at the beginning of October, and you know your friends and family get you, when your birthday presents consist mostly...
You - Caroline Kepnes
It doesn't happen often that I read a book after I've seen the screen adaptation. I've been watching the TV show You since it was first...
The House Of A Hundred Whispers - Graham Masterton
House of a Hundred Whispers is the second book I've read recently with a rave review from Stephen King proudly displayed on the front....
The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward
Well well well, how do I review this without giving away any spoilers? Twists upon twists upon twists. This is going to be tricky! I may...
The Cottage - Lisa Stone
(CW - mention of stillbirth and infant death) Who doesn't love a good guilty pleasure? Junk food in book form? A fast, easy to digest...
Damnable Tales - A Folk Horror Anthology - Richard Wells
Fear is a primordial instinct, from humans to the most basic sentient animals. Fear kept our ancestors alive. It trains us to recognise...
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
22 year old Noemà Taboada lives a glamorous, debutante life in 1950s Mexico City, with big plans to study Anthropology at University, and...
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