Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
Review I love horror, it's the genre that first caught my attention as a young girl after I got my hands on my very first Goosebumps book in the nineties.…
The Tangled Woods
Review The Tangled Woods is a somber short story about a man deep in his midlife crisis. The main character Reginald is a film critic, professor, and genuine piece of…
Nana
Review Well this book was certainly a wild ride, exceptionally so. Nana introduces us to Grace, a quintessential mother-in-law from hell. She is refined and sexy even at her advanced…
Hannah-Beast
Review Wow what a gut punch of a short story! Hannah-Beast is a Halloween story about urban legends and the traumas that can continue to haunt decades later. The story…
Tender Is the Flesh
Review What would happen to the meat industry if animals were suddenly inedible? Wiped out by a terrifying virus that makes animals toxic to humans. Tender is the Flesh answers…
There’s a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed
Review This was a silly little short story about the wild imaginations of children having a sleepover. They come up with increasingly complex rules that they have to abide by,…
Life Ceremony
Review When I read Convenience Store Woman a few years ago I couldn't get enough of Murata's writing. I'm a big fan of short stories, so I was excited to…
The Sleep Tight Motel
Review I had a hard time deciding how I felt about this little novella and whether or not I really liked it. It had its good points, some decent characters,…
Bird Box
Review There are very few books that I would consider hard to forget, but even years after I read Bird Box, I remember how much this book chilled me. With…
The Remedy
Review I struggled a bit with The Remedy, though it managed to surprise me in some ways. It follows the story of a man that suffers from physical pain without…