I had read a couple of novels by Ania Ahlborn before—those being 2017’s The Devil Crept In and 2019’s If You See Her—and I enjoyed them both enough to want to read another one of hers when it popped up in my Kindle Unlimited recommendations. If you’re unfamiliar, Ania Ahlborn is quite a popular and … More Books: The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
Victor LaValle was yet another author that I had been sadly remiss in hearing about it until his work was recommended on several book review channels I watch. Other than being a novelist, LaValle is also a writing professor at Columbia, as is his wife. They have a son named Geronimo, which I thought was … More Books: The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
The Australian psychological horror film The Babadook made an enormous splash with critics and horror fans when it came out back in 2014, and to this day it still ends up on many “best horror movies of the century so far” lists. Because of the hype surrounding it, there was also a pretty predictable backlash, … More Movies: The Babadook (2014)
Russell C. O’Connor is yet another author who has published numerous horror novels in the past several years, and has served as president of the DFW Writers’ Workshop in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, but who had somehow slipped beneath my radar. Browsing through the recommended offerings on Kindle Unlimited, I decided to rectify … More Books: The Jackal Man by Russell C. O’Connor
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
The Scare Salon 