Book Reviews & Recommendations
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher and the Wren enters the crowded field of true crime–inspired thrillers with a premise that promises chills and forensic authenticity. As the co-host of the popular Morbid podcast, Urquhart brings her real-life experience as an […]
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 […]
Clémence Michallon’s The Quiet Tenant is a dark, unsettling debut that dares to crawl inside the mind of a serial killer and the women trapped in his orbit. This is not an easy read. It’s haunting, suffocating, and emotionally raw, yet profoundly […]
In Heather Gudenkauf’s The Overnight Guest, isolation becomes both a refuge and a nightmare. Set against the merciless backdrop of a deadly blizzard, this psychological thriller grips you from the first page and refuses to let go until the chilling final scene. […]
Liann Zhang’s debut novel Julie Chan Is Dead is a wickedly sharp and unhinged thriller that dives headfirst into the glittering, grotesque world of social media fame. Equal parts satire and psychological suspense, it’s a story about envy, deception, and the dangerous […]
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Few authors can blend psychological terror with razor-sharp plotting quite like A.R. Torre. In The Last Party, she delivers one of her most unsettling and brilliantly constructed thrillers to date a slow-burning psychological storm that explores the darkest corners […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Rektok Ross returns with a chilling gothic thriller that perfectly captures the eerie charm of New England and the razor-sharp edge of courtroom drama. Salem’s Fall is a darkly addictive mix of psychological suspense, legal intrigue, and forbidden romance […]
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 […]
Kate Alice Marshall’s What Lies in the Woods is a haunting, beautifully layered thriller that examines childhood trauma, buried secrets, and the heavy cost of truth. It is both a mystery and a meditation on memory, guilt, and the scars both visible […]
Sarah Pekkanen returns with The Locked Ward, a chilling psychological thriller that explores the darkest corners of sisterhood, family secrets, and the fragile line between sanity and manipulation. With her signature mix of emotional depth and suspense, Pekkanen crafts a story that […]