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Ah, Linda Standish! What a character she is! Ruth Jones has taken the voice of a 50-something woman and has her telling a story of love and tragedy and how life and everything that you've treasured can be taken from…
I mean, never before has a man embodied “if he wanted to, he would” more than Gideon, for better or worse. The way he triggers a crisis of self in Maeve makes for a wild reading experience. Looking for your…
I must admit, Vigil took me a little while to get into. From Reading Saunders’ 2017 Booker winner, Lincoln in the Bardo, I knew this would be the case. Vigil is a challenging fever dream of a novel that initially left…
But one story stands out from the rest of his body of work, due to both its disturbing content and how intimately it is told. According to King’s website, Pet Sematary is the scariest story he ever wrote, and it…
Young Lady Alice was nearly ready for school. Downstairs, her loyal butler was already waiting. Suddenly, her final preparations were cut…Continue reading on Medium » i wrote dark fantasy drama surreal realism fiction «the bell: broken space» Young Lady Alice…
Ginger Nuts of Horror | Horror Book, & Film Reviews, Features and Interviews The Heart and Soul of Horror Promotion Widowed, broke and out of work, chef Sandra Riley takes up an old friend’s offer to stay at his wife’s crumbling family…
Ginger Nuts of Horror | Horror Book, & Film Reviews, Features and Interviews The Heart and Soul of Horror Promotion Rebecca had Manderley. Isabel has a Scottish manor and a husband who loves the devil. Years after leaving Portugal to find her…
3AM Books snares Lucy Cavendish Prize shortlistee’s literary horror debut The Bookseller 3AM Books snares Lucy Cavendish Prize shortlistee’s literary horror debut Read this article for free! Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The Bookseller for trusted publishing news,…
MPR News Amy Erickson of Bluebird Books in Detroit Lakes loved the novel “Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt” by Ben Reeves, but it’s a difficult one to describe. The book is about a man named Travis, who lives in…
Elizabeth Hand masterfully uses the gothic to explore the tumult of the ’20s in her bold and brilliantly written queer thriller Unspeakable Things. In Elizabeth Hand’s seductive, slow-burning gothic novel Unspeakable Things, 18-year-old Olivia Madden enjoys a privileged yet precarious life…