Category: Goat Leader
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Woom – by Duncan Ralston – Book Review
“I believe pain lingers,” Angel said. “Do I believe in spirits? In the supernatural? Probably not.”The Lonely Motel holds many dark secrets… and Room 6 just might possess the worst of them all. Angel knows all about pain. His mother died in this room. He’s researched its history. Today he’s come back to end it,…
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Special Feature: The Sinister Horror Company – by James Everington
Dark bleatings, dear friends! This week’s Friday post is brought to you by author James Everington, who wrote a (scary but hilarious) story about our beloved Sinister Horror Company. As we’re celebrating the wonderful run of a favourite indie press (I think we can all agree!), we thought it might be nice to see this…
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Zola – by D E McCluskey – Book Review
Gordon’s name was a joke.It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of cheese, and the fact that she had been steadily gaining weight since their marriage.Andrea was a doting mother, and maybe a little overprotective of her boy, but she didn’t see that as a bad…
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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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That Time I… Had To Make Friends With My Own Intestine
Oh God. So… yep. I’m telling this story. I have many bizarre personal anecdotes, and I generally enjoy sharing them, but this one is sort of a doozy. Fair warning, this article is long, and I’m talking about severe physical injury, a medical procedure, and in true “me” style, the mental gymnastics of the trauma…
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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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Latest Bookish YT Videos
Click on the pics to be taken to the videos! Authors/Books mentioned in this video: Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), Charlotte Perkins-Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), John Polidori (The Vampyr), Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla), Franz Kafka (Metamorphosis), Stephen King (The Mist), Priya Sharma (Pomegranates), Adam Millard (Swimming in the Sea of Trees), Brian Keene (Darkness on…
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A Sad Farewell to the Sinister Horror Company, One of Horror’s Most Treasured Indie Presses
Dark bleatings my dear friends. It’s Novella November, so I initially planned to post nothing but novella content this month. However, with the sad news that Sinister Horror Company is closing its doors, I’m compelled to break my own plan by writing this special post because Sinister Horror Company is special and it deserves as…
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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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