“HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE LAST MOMENTS BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS: You won’t.” “Could Eve have been sick in the Garden? Is desire an illness in itself?” American Rapture by CJ Leede – A Horror Book Review by Jonathan Thornton CJ Leede’s debut novel Maeve Fly (2023) was one of the … American Rapture by CJ Leede – Book ReviewRead more
Series: Cj Leede
C.J. Leede Interview: On Headlights, Grief, and the Haunted Open Road
C.J. Leede interview exploring her third horror novel Headlights, the grief-haunted open road, and why this quieter book may be her most unsettling yet.
Headlights by CJ Leede Review: Horror at Its Most Devastating
CJ Leede’s Headlights is the most ambitious novel of her career: a supernatural FBI thriller set against the frozen Colorado wilderness that fuses folk horror, procedural crime, and cosmic dread into something that stays with you long after the last page. Special Agent Daniel Stansfield returns to Denver on his final day with the FBI, drawn back by a case he never solved and a signature that defies explanation — people waking on highway shoulders, wearing the skin of victims, each with a stranger’s hair knotted around their tongue. Leede uses horror to do what only horror can: hold grief, trauma, freedom, and the afterlife simultaneously, without flinching from any of them. This is a review of a novel that rearranges something in the reader. Read on.