Gerald Brom, who is professionally known just by his last name, is an insanely talented artist and writer who I was peripherally aware of just by virtue of seeing his beautiful book covers here and there while browsing around in bookstores. He started as a commercial illustrator and later went on to do artwork for … More Books: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
Well, Christmas is fast approaching, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t discussed much Christmas horror this year, whether in book or movie form (other than Await Further Instructions, which I covered here), so I thought it was about time to rectify that situation. In my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, I kept noticing a very … More Books: Everything is Temporary by Jon Cohn
Part of the fun of having a Kindle Unlimited subscription is playing what I like to call Kindle Roulette, where I just browse through the dozens of recommendations on offer and choose a book completely at random, sometimes solely from the title or a cool-looking cover design. On occasion, this method has kinda bitten me … More Books: The Neighbor by London Clarke
In the run-up to Halloween of 2023, Amazon released a series of six stand-alone short stories/novellas under the name Creature Feature Collection, by six popular horror authors, including Grady Hendrix, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Jason Mott, Chandler Baker, and the subject of this review, Joe Hill. All six of the stories are available to read … More Books: The Pram by Joe Hill
A couple of weeks back, I got an email from an author named Seann Barbour, who was offering me an ARC of his upcoming horror novella, The Last Day, which is due to be published on October 23, 2023. Naturally, I accepted, and because it was shorter than the book I was already reading, I … More Books: The Last Day by Seann Barbour
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, a supernatural thriller released in May of 2023, seems to be one of those books that had the horror/thriller community all abuzz, and it actually won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award in the horror category, though I didn’t actually know about any of that when I randomly came across it … More Books: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
T. Kingfisher is the horror- and fantasy-specific pen name of prolific children’s book author and illustrator Ursula Vernon. I had read one of her horror novels before (The Hollow Places, from 2020) and enjoyed it quite a bit, so when a friend recommended one of her newest books to me, I was happy to give … More Books: A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
I remember hearing a a great deal about Catriona Ward’s novel The Last House on Needless Street back when it came out in autumn of 2021; there was a lot of buzz about it in the horror community, and I read that the movie rights got snapped up pretty quickly. I’m obviously a little late … More Books: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ll know that I love author Grady Hendrix. I’ve read and reviewed several of his works (such as Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group), but as I was browsing my local bookstore … More Books: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Some of y’all might remember that a while back, I reviewed a 2022 novel titled The 666 Murders by a British author named Alan Golbourn, which I enjoyed quite a bit, with some caveats. So recently, when Golbourn contacted me again and offered me a review copy of his latest novel The Cult From Beyond, … More Books: The Cult From Beyond by Alan Golbourn
The Scare Salon 