Category: Book Reviews
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Violence on the Meek – by Stuart Bray – Book Review
Paul has hated the world and everyone in it since he was eight years old. As an adult he has decided to write his autobiography, his final words directed at the very existence that he despises. Paul will take you on a path of murder, death, incest, and violence, the likes of which you could…
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The Sinister Horror Company – Book Recommendations for Novella November
Dark bleatings everyone! We’re posting nothing but novellas this month, and today I’ve got 3 recommendations for you, all from the Sinister Horror Company. I’m spotlighting this fabulous indie press in this post because, much to the devastation of the horror community, SHC is closing its doors. It’s had a great run and produced such…
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The Mist – by Stephen King – Book Review and Movie Contrast
It’s a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist…creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of…
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The Yellow Wall-Paper – Book Suggestion for Novella November
Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor,…
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No One Rides For Free – by Judith Sonnet – Book Review
Jodi was driving her children to college when The Man got in their car.Uninvited, unwanted, and unhinged…The Man has no name, but he does have a gun… a knife… and a bag of “toys”.What starts as a forced ride into the desert escalates into a disturbing series of crimes and assaults.Jodi and her children will…
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Pomegranates – by Priya Sharma – Book Review
Pomegranates is a dystopian tale, where climate change is an all-too-real backdrop to the events of the novella. Persephone is in the Underworld, relating her family’s history to a human who’s found his way there. As events unfold, and we see the horror her anger has unleashed on the world, we’re drawn deeper and deeper…
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Swimming in the Sea of Trees – by Adam Millard – Book Review
A year after the death of their son, Dan and Kelly are visiting Aokigahara, the infamous Japanese forest. Dan knows of its past as the place where souls come to die, to commit suicide either through hopelessness, debt, or love. Kelly does not, but all that changes when the forest’s ghosts begin to reveal themselves.…
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Holly – by Stephen King – Book Review
Stephen King’s HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and…
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Gone Where the Goblins Go – by Matt Betts – Book Review
In the near future, Tilly, a former army pilot mourning the loss of her father, has been recruited by a British conglomerate to fly a rescue team into war-torn China in search of their missing conservationist and his team. Joined by an eclectic collection of misfits, Tilly and her makeshift crew must brace themselves for…
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Bad God’s Tower – by Erica Summers – Book Review
Vicious criminals, Eugene Dempsey and Chester Craven, escape Wyoming Territorial Prison armed with nothing but striped prisoner pajamas and a Lakota’s hand-drawn map that, according to legend, will lead them to the unfathomable riches in a secret tunnel burrowed into the base of Devil’s Tower. Seeking their golden fortune, the fugitives head north, leaving their…
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