Category: Reviews

by Lindsey Ragsdale (@Leviathan15) Horror novels set in small, isolated towns are a dime a dozen. The idea of characters harboring their own dark secrets, while simultaneously wanting to know every bit of their neighbor’s business, is a familiar and successful trope in fiction. Perhaps this is because many readers are all-too-familiar with this setting,… Continue reading A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli

by @Asenath Science and horror go together like peanut butter and jelly and have remained enduringly popular as topics, from Mary Shelley’s original tale of the ethics of scientific creation to the several thousand zombie virus novels that have been published over the last decades  (including one of Mira Grant’s). Sci-fi horror forces us to… Continue reading Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

by Brandon Bernstein (@MantisShrimp) A quick search of “horror and music” brings up articles on the importance of a suspenseful soundtrack to a horror movie’s tense atmosphere and suggestions of spooky Spotify playlists for Halloween (or, if you’re like many members of the HOWL Society, all year round). But suppose you’re less interested in music… Continue reading Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand