Book Reviews & Recommendations
David Sodergren’s The Haar is an atmospheric plunge into the eerie depths of Scottish folklore, layered with dread, defiance, and a surprisingly tender core. Set in the small fishing village of Witchaven, the story weaves a tapestry of horror and heartbreak, where […]
Stephen King has always been the undisputed master of storytelling, but with You Like It Darker, he invites readers to explore a deeper, more intimate darkness. This 2024 collection of twelve short stories, which won the Goodreads Choice Award for Readers’ Favorite […]
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Stephen King has long treated the novella as his secret weapon, a length that lets him build tension, burrow into character, and still land a knockout ending. If It Bleeds collects four of those long stories, and together they […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Leigh Bardugo’s Hell Bent, the highly anticipated sequel to Ninth House, dives even deeper into the shadows of Yale’s secret societies, where wealth, power, and the occult collide. Winner of the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy, this dark […]
Few writers can blend the ordinary and the supernatural quite like Stephen King. Later reminds us why he’s still the undisputed master of modern horror. At once a coming-of-age tale, a ghost story, and a meditation on innocence lost, this slim but […]
S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood is an intimate and lyrical retelling of Dracula’s story through the eyes of his first bride, Constanta. Written as a confessional letter to her immortal husband, this novel reimagines the classic vampire myth not through fangs […]
Few manga series manage to be as absurdly wild and wildly entertaining as Dandadan, Vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu. Blending supernatural horror, sci-fi chaos, and slapstick comedy, this debut volume throws readers headfirst into a world where horny aliens, mischievous spirits, and […]
T. Kingfisher returns with another gripping entry in the Sworn Soldier series, and this time, the horrors lurk not in a haunted manor or a misty forest, but deep within the belly of an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia. What Stalks […]
Stephen King has always been the master of storytelling that transcends boundaries between horror and hope, fantasy and fear, the ordinary and the extraordinary. In Fairy Tale, King opens a new door into a realm where reality and imagination collide. It is […]
Joe Abercrombie cracks open a new sandbox with The Devils, an irreverent, blood-slick epic that trades the familiar First Law world for an alternate medieval Europe where popes are queens, Troy won its war, Carthage outmuscled Rome, and elves are not ethereal […]