Christina Henry’s haunted house horror novel follows a girl who dares her brother into the empty house at the end of her Chicago street, then spends years living in its shadow. My review of The Place Where They Buried Your Heart weighs its guilt, its found family and its hurried finale.
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Portrait of a Haunting by Madison Tyler Nelson Review: A Debut Painted in Grief
Madison Tyler Nelson’s supernatural horror debut follows Tatum Alexander, who sees the dead, as her best friend’s murder drags her back towards her imprisoned mother. In this Portrait of a Haunting review, I argue that a found family horror novel with a prickly heroine is cleverer than it first looks. For fans of witch coven novels and books like Ninth House.
The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing Review: Monsters, Labour and Found Family
Marshall J. Moore turns classic Gothic sidekicks into the centre of the story in The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing. Funny, warm and sharp on labour, loyalty and found family, this cosy horror earns its five stars.

