Haunted Houses Tony’s top YA picks for Halloween Halloween is the perfect time to take a closer look at some of my favourite YA horror novels featuring haunted houses or other spooky locations and buildings. Since Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House (1959) this popular sub-genre exploded and … Haunted Houses, Tony’s top YA picks for Halloween Read more
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Change & Other Terrors by Jim Horlock – Book Review
Change & Other Terrors by Jim Horlock – Horror Book Review by Damascus Mincemeyer Quill & Crow Publishing; 184 Pages; Available Now on Amazo In an unstable and chaotic universe, the only constant is change. From the collapse of galaxies to the passing of seasons, the mutation of bacteria and … Change & Other Terrors by Jim Horlock – Book ReviewRead more
Truth Twister by Lydia Graves – Book Review
Truth Twister by Lydia Graves, A Horror Book Review by Debra K. Every Truth Twister by Lydia Graves is one creepy novella. In it, we meet Wods, a hard-working man doing his best to be an attentive husband to Jessie and a good stepfather to the incongruously named Chastity, a … Truth Twister by Lydia Graves – Book ReviewRead more
WHERE THE DEAD BRIDES GATHER BY NUZO ONOH
WHERE THE DEAD BRIDES GATHER BY NUZO ONOH A powerful Nigeria-set horror tale of possession, malevolent ghosts, family tensions, secrets and murder from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement and ‘Queen of African Horror’. For readers of Octavia Butler, Ben Okri and Koji Suzuki. Bata, an … WHERE THE DEAD BRIDES GATHER BY NUZO ONOHRead more
John Everson, Putting the Splatter into Splatterpunk
John Everson, Putting the Splatter into Splatterpunk By Lionel Ray Green This year, Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Everson received his first Splatterpunk Awards nomination for his 2023 novel The Night Mother. A sequel to his sexually taboo, blood-soaked, Stoker-nominated novel NightWhere, The Night Mother continues the story of a … John Everson, Putting the Splatter into SplatterpunkRead more
Millionaires Day by Kit Power, Book Review
Millionaires Day by Kit Power, Book Review Those of you who followed the birth of this novella on social media might wonder, “What the hell is going on with the British Horror Scene?” With Kit’s insistence that the events of December 22, 2019, are accurate and that we are all … Millionaires Day by Kit Power, Book ReviewRead more
Unique Locations to Set a Horror Movie
Unique Locations to Set a Horror Movie Source: Pixabay Are horror themes becoming a little too formulaic? Do we already know what to expect from the movies created in terms of their locations? Indeed, it’s not hard to describe a typical horror scene. It’ll occur in a haunted house, a … Unique Locations to Set a Horror MovieRead more
You Better Watch Out by James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth – Book Review
You Better Watch Out by James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth – Book Review You Better Watch Out by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth is a thrilling holiday-themed horror novel that skillfully blends elements of suspense, drama, and a dash of dark humour. Murray, known for his work as … You Better Watch Out by James S Murray and Darren Wearmouth – Book ReviewRead more
American Rapture by CJ Leede – Book Review
“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
Deena Undone by Debra K Every – Book Review
Deena Undone by Debra K Every: A Captivating Blend of Horror and Drama – Book Review Every’s writing is lyrical yet accessible, seamlessly blending vivid imagery with emotional depth. It invites readers to become fully immersed in Denna’s tumultuous world. Deena Undone by Debra K Every is a masterful blend … Deena Undone by Debra K Every – Book ReviewRead more
The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell, Book Review
The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell, A Horror Book Review by Benjamin Kurt Unsworth In a Ramsey Campbell novel, there are some things you come to expect: the mundane made creepy, characters that aren’t likeable but who make perfect protagonists, dialogue that leaps off the page and puts you in a … The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell, Book ReviewRead more
Five Lessons from Horror on Having Children
Five Lessons from Horror on Having Children by Shannon Knight Lesson #1 Don’t have children if you don’t want to. Leslie J. Anderson’s folk and body horror The Unmothers begins with an angry reporter, deep in her personal grief, sent to investigate a ridiculous story of a horse giving birth … Five Lessons from Horror on Having ChildrenRead more
Where Dark Things Grow by Andrew K. Clark – Book Review
Dark Things Grow by Andrew K Clark Cowboy Jamboree Press; 308 Pages; Available Now on Amazon A Horror Book Review by Damascus Mincemeyer Rising from the coastal plains of the American Eastern seaboard, the Appalachians are made up of a broken chain of peaks, ridges and dissected plateaus extending from … Where Dark Things Grow by Andrew K. Clark – Book ReviewRead more
Stay in the Light by A.M. Shine – Book Review
Stay in the Light by A.M. Shine, a book review by Jim McLeod A.M. Shine first exploded onto my radar with his second novel of sheer Irish-based terror, The Creeper. I was so impressed by the story’s originality and the bone-chilling imagery that I had to check out his debut … Stay in the Light by A.M. Shine – Book ReviewRead more
CJ Leede, as The Maeve Flies Through the American Rapture
CJ Leede, as The Maeve Flies during the American Rapture CJ Leede is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She is the author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture. Her debut novel Maeve Fly won the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award and Splatterpunk Award, and earned a Bram Stoker … CJ Leede, as The Maeve Flies Through the American RaptureRead more