A group of masked children appear before a green-colored flame and tell scary stories. Each story reflects both the creepiness of the autumnal season as well as the preference of the narrators. Meanwhile, the identity of these storytellers and their purpose starts to crystalize. Welcome to Christopher Robertson’s The October […]
Norman Partridge’s Dark Harvest has all the familiar trappings of a Halloween horror story. Each year, an unnamed American town has a visit from a pumpkin-headed monster with a butcher’s knife on Halloween. In this novel, it’s 1963. If the kids stop the creature, they will receive their fill of […]
Craig DiLouie’s Episode 13 is Ghost Hunters meets found footage as recorded in book form. Three paranormal researchers, one cameraperson, and one scientist explore a haunted house to determine the existence of ghosts. When it comes to the thirteenth episode, their ghost chasing series hits the jackpot—a place called the […]
The Classic Monsters Series by Ye Olde Dragon Press starts with a classic monster and then twists the theme. This continues with The Invisible Files: Classic Monster Series #4. The twist must be a departure from the tried and true. For the Invisible Files anthology, The Invisible Man (or Woman) […]
Many Halloween anthologies exist on the market, but most offerings are crafted by different authors. Other collections are written by a single author. It’s rare to find an anthology of multiple stories written by the same group of authors. For Thirteen Paths: A Halloween Anthology, a trio of authors pen […]
A search on Beatrice Rappaccini brought this novel to my attention. It checked all the boxes of something I look for in a horror fantasy: collection of distinctive characters, strong women, and monsters. The fact that some of the monsters were strong women made me want to buy it immediately. […]
Specter Inspector (Series Title: Dead and Back Again) is a second series following the Haunted Romance trilogy by C. Rae D’Arc. The reader may start with Specter Inspector without reading the prior series, though the first trilogy is highly recommended. This novel moves forward in time about fifteen years, starts […]
Judgment Call – Shards of Sevia by E. B. Roshan is the fifth in the Shards of Sevia series and a direct sequel to Final Chance, the second book. This set of novels concerns Sevia, a fictional country, torn apart by rival factions. A bloody uprising has caused peacekeeping troops […]
Forlorn Harbor came from a simple idea—what if I were stuck in a horror anthology that I had seen before? Could I change the ending, and if I did, would my changes make the ending better? Could I save Jordy Verrill’s life, or prevent the Santa Claus murders in Tales […]
Spindelkin is an enchanting and wonderfully-imagined YA novel by Jean Davis. The queen’s daughter, Amira, suffers through a daily extract of her poisoned blood to remain alive. Cut off from civilization, Amira has only her mother, father, and maids as visitors. One day, Amira finds that the queen has given […]