I know I did a book vs. movie comparison not terribly long ago (Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, in case you missed it), but the process of doing that one made me want to jump into another one as soon as possible. And for a long time, I’d been itching to … More Book vs Movie: Hell House / The Legend of Hell House
I had noticed the strikingly awesome cover for the 2021 novel This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno many times while scrolling through my Kindle, and I figured I’d get around to it eventually because the premise sounded pretty interesting. But then it so happened that I was on a subreddit the other day where … More Books: This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Author Shirley Jackson should of course be no stranger to horror fans, as she’s responsible for what is arguably the greatest haunted house novel of the 20th century, 1959’s The Haunting of Hill House, which has been adapted into an excellent 1963 film directed by Robert Wise, a shitty 1999 film directed by Jan de … More Book vs Movie: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Way back around Christmas of 2023, I read and reviewed a delightful holiday novella titled Everything Is Temporary by Jon Cohn. Just recently, I got an email from his publicist, asking if I’d like to have a gander at his latest novel, Kill Beth, published on June 11th of 2025. As you can likely surmise … More Books: Kill Beth by Jon Cohn
Canadian author Adam Cosco contacted me recently and offered to send me an honest-to-goodness print version of his latest novel, The Dream Killer, which was published on March 25th, 2025. I had never read anything by him before, but this appears to be his seventh book, and hot damn, if all of them are as … More Books: The Dream Killer by Adam Cosco
Author Barbara Avon contacted me a while back and asked me to review her 2022 novella Revived (tagline: “He should have stayed dead.”). She isn’t an author I’m familiar with, but she writes in several different genres, including dark romance, thriller, and horror. This story is definitely a psychological horror with heavy doses of dark … More Books: Revived by Barbara Avon
I have to admit that the title of this one piqued my interest right away, and that amazing cover design is just so simple and impactful that I literally could not resist it. I’m speaking, of course, of the 2024 novel The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim, a psychological/body horror story about … More Books: The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Paul Tremblay is a name that should be familiar to most horror fans; he was responsible for the beloved 2015 novel A Head Full of Ghosts, which won a Bram Stoker Award that year, and his 2018 book The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the 2023 film Knock at the … More Books: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Brooklyn-born Max Hawthorne is an author (and screenwriter, and songwriter, and cryptid researcher) that I hadn’t heard of before, but he’s known in sci-fi circles as the Prince of Paleo-fiction, largely due to his bestselling Kronos series, which involves massive prehistoric sea monsters. His 2022 novel The Sleigh, though, was something a bit different, still … More Books: The Sleigh by Max Hawthorne
Since it’s getting to be about that time of year, I figured I should get into the holiday spirit by reading some Christmas-themed horror. And quite at random, I came across a spooky-sounding 2023 novel called Alice: A Christmas Ghost Story by prolific British author Shani Struthers. Just what Santa ordered! Much like classic holiday … More Books: Alice: A Christmas Ghost Story by Shani Struthers
The Scare Salon 