Kathleen Kaufman’s novel The Son of Abraham was sent to me as an ARC by Turner Publishing way back before its publication in October of 2021. When I first received and read it, I didn’t initially realize that it’s actually the third book of a trilogy called Diabhal (the first two books were 2019’s Diabhal … More Books: The Son of Abraham by Kathleen Kaufman
It’s only a week until Halloween, and like many of you guys (I assume), I’ve been preparing myself for the best day of the year by watching creepy, autumn-tinged movies and reading creepy, autumn-tinged books (which is really no different to what I’m doing the rest of the year, but I digress). So imagine my … More Books: Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings
Mohawked and prolific author Adam Millard has written a few dozen novels and novellas and a couple hundred short stories, but for some reason, I only just recently got down to starting to read his stuff. He normally writes in the realms of bizarro or erotic horror, but the novella I picked up to start … More Books: Larry by Adam Millard
Author C.V. Hunt is the owner of Grindhouse Press, and from what I could determine is known primarily for her bizarro fiction, including the wonderfully-titled novellas Cockblock, How to Kill Yourself, and Baby Hater (which is about an infertile woman who becomes a baby-punching vigilante, and thus has shot right up to the top of … More Books: Halloween Fiend by C.V. Hunt
The 2020 novel Gilchrist by Christian Galacar is another horror novel I stumbled across while browsing the Kindle Unlimited free selections; the title and cover art intrigued me, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. Galacar, according to his bio, holds a degree in finance and worked in that field for several years before … More Books: Gilchrist by Christian Galacar
Richard Thomas’s short story collection Spontaneous Human Combustion was published in February of 2022, but I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy from Turner Publishing several months prior to its release. Richard Thomas was another author I wasn’t all that familiar with, although since he’s had about 150 stories published in various horror … More Books: Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas
Jeremy Ray is an author I hadn’t encountered before; according to his bio, he’s found success as a playwright and with a few of his screenplays, but his first love is short prose. He’s not exclusively a horror writer, as he likes to hop genres, but his 2021 novella Petrified Women is undoubtedly a horror … More Books: Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray
I chose Brandon Massey’s Dark Corner completely at random out of my Kindle Unlimited recommendations, and as usual, I didn’t read the description of the book; I just dived right in. The book is actually older than I thought it was when I first started reading it, having come out in 2005. Now, I will … More Books: Dark Corner by Brandon Massey
Look on almost any substantial list of “best horror novels of the 2000s,” and the odds are fairly good that Scott Smith’s 2006 book The Ruins will be on it. It’s a grim, ever-escalating survival nightmare of cruel and heightened nature, and it’s pretty damn gross, to boot. It was made into a decent film … More Books: The Ruins by Scott Smith
There’s kind of a funny story behind how I ended up reading and reviewing this book, a story that illustrates pretty clearly the fact that I have read so many books over the course of my life that I’ve forgotten which books I’ve read and which ones I haven’t. So a while back, I was … More Books: Mrs. God by Peter Straub
The Scare Salon 