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
A longtime friend of the 13 O’Clock Podcast, Oracle of the Mundane, often recommends books for me to check out, and she’s never steered me wrong yet. Just recently, she was kind enough to buy me an ebook of Barbara Hambly’s 1994 supernatural fantasy Bride of the Rat God, which immediately intrigued me with that … More Books: Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
LM Kaplin is a writer from upstate New York, and the 2024 book I’m discussing today, Mine: A Psychological Horror, appears to be his first full-length novel (prior to this, he had a short story in an anthology called Screams from the Ocean Floor, and published a collection of his own vampire short stories called … More Books: Mine: A Psychological Horror by LM Kaplin
Some time ago, I was contacted by a California-based author named Foray Jumpman, and he asked if I would read and review his 2023 book The Absolutely Fine Novel, the first in a seven-book series. He acknowledged that it wasn’t a genre I would usually cover, but you guys know me, I’m pretty open-minded, so … More Books: The Absolutely Fine Novel by Foray Jumpman
The Scare Salon 