Book Reviews & Recommendations
Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty is a haunting, provocative debut that blends horror, satire, and social commentary into a dark reflection of our beauty-obsessed culture. With an atmosphere that is both luxurious and grotesque, this novel exposes the monstrous side of perfectionism […]
Christopher Buehlman’s The Daughters’ War is a magnificent, heart-wrenching return to the grim, goblin-haunted world he first introduced in The Blacktongue Thief. Set during the devastating years before that novel, this prequel doesn’t merely expand the mythology; it deepens it. Through blood, […]
Rivers Solomon turns the haunted house inside out in Model Home, a literary horror novel that treats a gated Dallas McMansion like a fault line running through one Black family. It is eerie, emotionally brutal, and relentlessly thoughtful. Where many hauntings end […]
Saratoga Schaefer’s Serial Killer Support Group takes a wild, darkly humorous idea and turns it into a biting feminist thriller about vengeance, morality, and the thin line between justice and obsession. Part The Final Girl Support Group, part My Sister, the Serial […]
Ryan La Sala’s The Dead of Summer is a chilling, atmospheric, and surprisingly heartfelt young adult horror novel that blends supernatural suspense with coming-of-age themes. Imagine We Were Liars meeting The Fog, with a touch of Holly Jackson’s narrative sharpness and a […]
Django Wexler’s How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying is what happens when epic fantasy crashes into Groundhog Day and Deadpool. It’s chaotic, clever, and absolutely bursting with energy. This is a story that gleefully mocks fantasy tropes while still […]
Cassandra Khaw’s The Library at Hellebore is not your typical dark academia novel. Where others flirt with danger and decadence, Khaw dives headfirst into a world soaked in blood, dread, and devoured flesh. This book is horror academia at its most unhinged, […]
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson begins as a gentle, honey-scented sapphic romance and ends as a full-blown nightmare. At first glance, it feels like the perfect cozy novella: farmers’ markets, pastel soaps, homemade cupcakes, and the spark of a new romance between […]
Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts is a ferocious debut that stares straight into the tangle of power, desire, and performance in the twenty-first century. Told in an electrifying first person voice, the novel follows Irina, a fetish photographer in Newcastle who scouts so […]
Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me is a taut, claustrophobic slice of desert-set sci fi horror that flirts with body horror, tilts into erotic dread, and asks unnerving questions about consent, desire, and control. At a remote research outpost, team lead Kinsey breaks quarantine […]