by @Joan, curator of HOWL Book Club nominees for October's "Hideous Experiments" category Storylines stitched together in mad patterns, truth grafted onto fiction, uncanny voices speaking from the shadows — sometimes horror pushes the boundaries of narrative as well as subject matter. The books in this list all have experimental elements or gimmicks that could… Continue reading 6 Horror Novels that Push the Boundaries of Form
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6 Horrors from other Sections of the Bookshop
by @JennyK, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for October's "Diet Horror" cateory Horror without the sugar—dark fiction that might not be shelved in the horror section. While I’ve always loved and read horror, I also have loved and read books outside of horror, though I quickly realized most of the “non-horror” books I love… Continue reading 6 Horrors from other Sections of the Bookshop
6 Chances to Fear Thy Family And Friends
by @cstephensauthor, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for October's "Fear Thy Family And Friends" category I’ve always been fascinated by the harm done by those closest to us, those whose betrayals slice the deepest. This category represents a peek into that world, and how our most intimate relationships shape us and sometimes destroy us.… Continue reading 6 Chances to Fear Thy Family And Friends
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
by @drthoss Have you ever looked into the mirror for too long? Not at a mirror, you understand. No. Into it. Into it so far that you, like Alice trembling before the rabbit hole, teeter on the edge of all that you know, and just as you want to look away, you see what you… Continue reading The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
HOWL Society Chats with Philip Fracassi
Note: HOWL Society (HS abbreviated) is represented here by multiple members. To take part in discussions like this one, talk books, and join an ever growing writer collective, join our Discord. HOWL Society: Phillip Fracassi is the author of award-winning story collection, Behold the Void, 2021’s Beneath the Pale Sky, and his debut novel, Boys… Continue reading HOWL Society Chats with Philip Fracassi
Flip through 6 Decades of the Cosmic Yearbook
by @Zodac, curator of HOWLS Book Club Nominees for October's "Cosmic Yearbook" category This started out with me wanting to do a selection of cosmic horror from the ‘70s, which didn’t work out. Instead, I got for you a selection of post–Lovecraft circle cosmic horror from the 1960s to the 2010s. Requirements for selection were… Continue reading Flip through 6 Decades of the Cosmic Yearbook
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
by @SemaphoreRaven Picture, if you will, the stereotype of the ‘50s American Housewife. The perfect hair and makeup, the ever-present smile, the look of joy when presented with the newest in cooking and cleaning products. Her house is spotless. She always has dinner hot and ready for her husband when he gets home from work.… Continue reading The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
6 Horror Novels of Women and Payback
by @StephanieAdele, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for September's "WAP (Women and Payback)" category Who doesn’t like books with some juicy WAP (Women and Payback) to close out the month of September? Most of my all-time favourite books feature female characters with questionable morals taking their revenge on those they think have wronged them.… Continue reading 6 Horror Novels of Women and Payback
6 Millennial-Penned Horrors
by @ArthurBea, curator of HOWLS Book Club Nominees for September's "🔥 YAAAAS, Millennial Horror Is Lit!" category Perennial Gen Xer Bret Easton Ellis said of Millennials: “There’s no writing. They don’t care about literature. None of them read books.” FOH, because I can’t even. Sure, a lot of this generation’s horror comes from the horror… Continue reading 6 Millennial-Penned Horrors
Pin by Andrew Neiderman
by @Asenath Ah, incest. The Gothic’s favorite taboo, there from the very beginning. Much like the function of incest in the original Gothic novels, the horror in Pin is less focused on the perverse acts themselves than on the ways in which a young woman is forced to exchange one captor for another. Here, teenage… Continue reading Pin by Andrew Neiderman