Stefanie Gilmour’s fourth novel, Track the Wolf, moves the Alex Steward series in a different direction. Whereas the first three books centered on the supernatural and human conflicts in the fictional town of Hopewell, Michigan, Track the Wolf broadens the world and changes the theme. The first three in this […]
Full disclosure: I have a story included in this anthology, so this is more of a reflection on the other stories than a typical review. Tales from the Tomb is the sixth in Ye Olde Dragon Book’s anthology on Classic Monsters. The editors challenged the writers to create new and […]
The third in the Lamplight “Murder” series by Morgan Stang, Murder on Hunter’s Eve expands the narrative in multiple ways. First, it expands the setting from an inn (book 1) or a train (book 2) to the entire city of Lamplight. Second, it expands the point-of-view from its main character […]
Hilary Faktor’s Pretty Bird is a thriller about a woman who escaped from an artist’s cult as a child, but her past comes back to haunt her as an adult. Maeve has a good job and family (husband, daughter and son). Her world unravels when she and her husband see […]
Leah Rochelle’s Oenone describes the adventure of a sculpture of Oenone (of Greek mythology fame) that Aphrodite brings to life in the modern world. Oenone is searching for a reincarnation of her husband, Paris. This summary may have The Mummy vibes, but this book is not a horror offering. Instead, […]
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia tops a lot of reader’s “best horror lists.” It not only figures on many “best” lists for its year, but it also lands on many best of the 2020s decade. In the 1950s, Noemí Taboada travels to an old English estate, High Place, in Mexico. […]
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson’s novel, Brother Wolf, is the second in a series I’m dubbing “The Father Edmund Collection.” Fr. Edmund Thomas Gilroy, though a secondary character in both novels, plays a pivotal part in instructing and combating the forces of evil threatening the Church and the world. In A Bloody […]
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerized Girl’s last book of the The Athena Club trilogy is a puzzle to me. I don’t understand why certain choices were made. There are major spoilers ahead, so this is for only those fans who have read the third book. First, the theme of […]
(The Athena Club Book 3) The Athena Club is comprised of Mary Jekyll and Diana Hyde (daughters of the infamous Henry Jekyll), Catherine Moreau (a puma made human by Dr. Moreau), Beatrice Rappaccini (a poisonous lady from a Nathaniel Hawthorne short story), Justine Frankenstein (the created bride of the monster), […]
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is on many must-read lists and deservedly so. The Midnight Library’s Nora Seed isn’t having a great day when she travels to the Midnight Library, a library filled with books of her alternate lives. Nora is allowed to inhabit a different life, spawned from seeing […]