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Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a good-bye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to … Continue reading Review: ‘The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires’ Grady Hendrix
After a ten hour shift at work the other day, I rose from my chair, grabbed a book and a G&T and padded out onto my balcony to soak up the last of the day's sunshine. It was an idyllic scene. Birds were tweeting in the tree in front of our building, the air was … Continue reading The Science behind the Scare
It was just an ordinary garbage dump on peaceful Cape Cod. No one ever imagined that conditions were perfect for breeding, that it was a warm womb, fetid, moist, and with food so plentiful that everything creeping, crawling, and slithering could gorge to satiation. Then a change in poison control was made, resulting in an … Continue reading ‘The Nest’ Gregory A. Douglas
Here's my selection of creepy reads in the run up to All Hallows' Eve. I bought The Silence based on the recommendation of Amazon after it noted that I'd reviewed Josh Malerman's Bird Box. I've heard mixed thoughts on it, but I'm a hundred pages in and enjoying it so far. As for Disappearance at Devil's Rock and The Cabin at the … Continue reading Jazz’s Halloween Reads
Most people dismissed the reports on the news. But they became too frequent; they became too real. And soon it was happening to people we knew. Then the Internet died. The televisions and radios went silent. The phones stopped ringing And we couldn’t look outside anymore. I was first introduced to Josh Malerman's work when … Continue reading ‘Bird Box’ Josh Malerman
The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this collection of nineteen brand-new stories. In "The Boggle Hole" by Alison Littlewood an ancient folk tale leads to irrevocable loss. In Josh Malerman's "The House of the Head" a dollhouse becomes the focus for an incident both … Continue reading ‘New Fears’ edited by Mark Morris
The classic and terrifying story of one of the most famous supernatural events--the infamous possessed house on Long Island from which the Lutz family fled in 1975. SPOILER ALERT! Okay, so this was meant to be my Halloween special review (you can check out last year's here), but because I'm shit, I'm 11 days late … Continue reading ‘The Amityville Horror’ Jay Anson
Some dangers you cannot outrun. Some nightmares do not end when you wake. Something is watching Katherine Harris. She can feel it when she goes out. She can feel it inside her home. She feels it in her bed. Her husband, Alex, wants to blame her anxiety on her pregnancy, but he’s often away for … Continue reading ‘Cleaving Souls’ Chauncey Rogers
In the run up to Halloween, I'm trying to work my way through some of the creepier titles on my TBR list and today I started 'The Amityville Horror' (also, yes, I am in my PJs at 5pm but I have a cold and I'm tired so I'm excused :P) What spooky reads are you … Continue reading Halloween reads
An acclaimed SF novel about vampires. The last man on earth is not alone ... Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the … Continue reading ‘I Am Legend’ Richard Matheson
