Published in the summer of 2020, Stephen Graham Jones’s novel The Only Good Indians immediately started garnering lots of buzz, and ended up winning several awards, including the Ray Bradbury Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. I had read a couple of Jones’s books before, including his 2020 novella Night of … More Books: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
As my previously stated love of the novels Horrorstör and My Best Friend’s Exorcism will attest—not to mention my undying admiration for the absolutely stellar and beautifully-designed nonfiction work Paperbacks From Hell (which explores the horror paperback boom of the 1970s and 1980s)—Grady Hendrix has become easily one of my favorite horror writers working today. … More Books: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Ti West began his directorial career in 2005 with the killer-bat film The Roost, but it wasn’t until his 2009 Satanic Panic throwback House of the Devil that the horror community really sat up and took notice. He followed up with the excellent paranormal horror The Innkeepers in 2011, and then in 2013 released his … More Movies: X (2022)
Today we’re going to be talking about Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, an author probably best known to most audiences as the author of Gone Girl, which was turned into a successful 2014 film directed by David Fincher. Sharp Objects is Flynn’s first novel, published in 2006, and it was also adapted in 2018 as … More Books: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
When I was first thinking about doing this book review series, my main goal was getting back into reading horror fiction. I used to read a lot of it, and then for the past several years, I had gotten far more into nonfiction, just because most of the time that seemed more interesting when I … More Books: If You See Her by Ania Ahlborn
If you’re a regular consumer of my work, you will know how much I love me some understated ghost story action, particularly if it’s British. So while randomly scrolling through the horror movie section of some streaming service long ago, I happened to come across Soulmate (2013), which from the brief description sounded right up my alley. … More Double Feature: Soulmate (2013) and The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2005)
The Scare Salon 