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 […]
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 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), […]
E. M. Lund’s The Urbex Trip explores the idea of a group of twenty-somethings encountering something haunted while enjoying an URBan EXploration. Urban exploration is the concept of visiting and documenting (usually with images) a human-constructed, abandoned building. In the book’s case, eight people travel to a decades-abandoned luxury resort […]
The third, and possibly end of a first trilogy, of the Alex Steward series, is entitled Free the Wolf. Alex is a homeless citizen of Hopewell, living off the charity of her friend Emma and hanging around Hell’s Bells with her other friends, Trish and Nate. She’s also a werewolf. […]
She Waits Where Shadows Gather is the debut novel of Michelle Tang, a new voice in the horror genre. I had read her previous novella DuMort (a Shirley Jackson nominee) and was captivated by its gripping plot, complex characters, and delightful twist at the end. She Waits Where Shadows Gather […]
A quick summary of this novel is that a woman who has barricaded herself in her apartment during a zombie and vampire apocalypse for 187 days emerges to find a world in chaos. I’ve read another novel by author Jodi Jenson in a different genre and enjoyed it. I was […]