Happy Goat Horror

Dark bleatings, my amorphous tribe! I’ve had werewolves on the brain recently, which got me thinking “what other were-creatures are there?” Naturally, the first book I picked up in the ‘weird were’ genre was Candace Nola’s Bishop, which has been recommend to me oh, I dunno, about a thousand times over the last year. “Caught…

Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway―not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance…

‘You like it darker? Fine, so do I’, writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life – both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and…