The Taste of Blood: ReVAMPed Edition
Review The Taste of Blood is a coming of age horror story about the monstrous violence of girlhood. The story centers on a thirteen year old girl named Genesis who…
The Crocodile Bride
Review The Crocodile Bride is a southern gothic about a line of women coming of age in the American south and the stories that they tell to keep their families…
News of Transformations
Review News of Transformations is a bizarre collection of surreal stories that plays with genre. Each story explores some shockingly dark topics with a satirical edge and a little bit…
Sweet Poolside
Review Sweet Poolside is a strange little manga. A teenage boy who hasn’t grown any body hair meets a girl who is embarrassed about her body hair, and the two…
Our Dead Girlfriend
Review Our Dead Girlfriend is a near perfect coming-of-age horror story. Four tween boys find the body of a high school girl in the woods. She's lifeless sure, but she's…
A Girl on the Shore
Review A Girl on the Shore is a manga that I didn’t know that I needed. It’s a story about two youths, struggling with an oppressive ennui that leads them…
Another Brooklyn
Review I first encountered Jacqueline Woodson through her bite-sized memoir, Before Her, earlier this year and I was so in love with her prose that I knew I needed to…
Carrie
Review I hate to admit that I held off on reading this book for a long time. I had watched the 1976 and 2013 films and figured that the films…
Miao Dao
Review Of the Dark Corners stories I’ve read so far, I can tell already that Miao Dao will probably be my favorite and is by far one of the strongest…
The Sign of the Beast
Review What I admire most about Oates’ brand of suspenseful horror is that she truly understands the predatory nature of people. Mrs. S——, Howard's Sunday school teacher, is a sexual…