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Book Review: The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. "Wouldn't it be…
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Book Review: If It Bleeds by Stephen King
Media Type: Audio BookTitle: If It BleedsAuthor: Stephen KingPublisher: Simon & Schuster AudioPages/Length: 15 hours and 12 minutesRelease Date: April 21, 2020Source: Purchased From Stephen King comes a collection of four novellas—Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds, each pulling the reader into intriguing and frightening places. The title story stars Holly Gibney, the OCD detective featured in the Mr. Mercedes Trilogy and The Outsider. The novella is a length King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a Stephen King story collection, and I didn’t realize…
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Book Review: Fountain Dead by Theresa Braun
Media Type: Ebook Title: Fountain Dead Author: Theresa Braun Publisher: Unnerving Pages: Kindle; 187 Release Date: November 20, 2018 Source: Author ——————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence, Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy horror in a YA setting. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with…
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Book Review: The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Last Harvest Author: Kim Liggett Publisher: Tor Teen Pages: Paperback; 352 Release Date: July 24, 2018 Source: Publisher ————————————– Content Screening: Violence, Blood/Gore HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a YA horror story that keeps you guessing. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Kim Liggett’s The Last Harvest is a thrilling YA horror story that draws on her childhood during the Satanic Panic. “I plead the blood.” Those were the last words seventeen-year-old golden boy quarterback Clay Tate heard rattling from his dad’s throat when he discovered…
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Book Review: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Sleeping Beauties Authors: Stephen King, Owen King Publisher: Scribner Pages: Hardcover; 702 Release Date: September 26, 2017 Source: Library Borrow ——————————————— Genre: Horror, Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a mildly dystopian story, set in a small town. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral…
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Book Review: Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
Media Type: Ebook Title: Those Across the River Author: Christopher Buehlman Publisher: Ace Pages: Hardcover; 357 Release Date: September 6, 2011 Source: Library ——————————————- Genre: Horror HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow burn reads, and don’t have a problem with violence. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family’s old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new…
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Book Spotlight + Playlist – Fairy Lights by Edward Lorn
He’s baaaaaaaack! Yes friends, Edward Lorn is once again a feature on my blog and I honestly couldn’t be more pleased about it. If you haven’t already met E., as we all fondly call him, I highly recommend you check out these posts: Edward Lorn on Horror and the Objectification of Women Author Interview with Edward Lorn You can also scroll up to that review portal up there, and find his last name, for some reviews of his books! Spoiler alert, they’re great and also deliciously creepy. Anyway, I’ll stop babbling and let you know that the reason E. is…
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Graphic Novel Review: Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Title: Through the Woods Author: Emily Carroll Illustrator: Emily Carroll Publisher: Margaret K. McElderberry Books Pages: Paperback; 208 Recommended Age Group: 16+ Release Date: July 15, 2014 Source: Library Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation “His Face All Red,” in print for the first time. Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our…
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Book Review: The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Dead House Author: Dawn Kurtagich Publisher: Little Brown, BFYR Pages: Hardcover; 432 Release Date: September 15, 2015 Source: NetGalley ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a slow burn, and prefer their stories less gory and more haunting. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Welcome to the Dead House. Three students: dead. Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace. Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to…
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Book Review: Facial by Jeff Strand
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Facial Author: Jeff Strand Publisher: DarkFuse Pages: ebook; 86 Release Date: December 16, 2014 Source: Netgalley —————————————– Content Screening: Violence and Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark humor and aren’t afraid of a little gore. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Greg has just killed the man he hired to kill one of his wife’s many lovers. He’s now got a dead body in his office. Carlton, Greg’s brother, desperately needs a dead body. It’s kind of related to the lion corpse that he found in his basement. This is the normal part of the story. From Jeff Strand,…
