Reviews


Women in Horror 2025 – Howls Book Club Year In Review

Not only is March Women’s History Month, but it’s also Women in Horror Month! HOWLS Year in Review For Women in Horror Month 2025, we want to highlight authors we’ve read over the last year, and focus on several books members of HOWLS really loved. The books by women we read over the last year…

The 2022 HOWLS Awards

by Joseph Andre Thomas (@bunttriple) They’re (finally) here—the HOWL Society Best of 2022 Awards. Yes, the new year has come and gone long ago (along, apparently, with any semblance of my commitments and responsibilities). But at long last the hammer has struck the anvil, and the winners have been chosen. HOWLS members voted on their…

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

by Christopher O’Halloran (@Burgleinfernal) Poll the average HOWLer and you’ll get the same opinion: the world is a dumpster fire. Many find it hard to point at the marvels around us without being overwhelmed by the constant injustices going on every day. Whether that’s the mistreatment of minority populations by both authority figures and fellow…

Boof-e Koor (The Blind Owl) by Sadegh Hedayat

by ghazal ghaffari (@ghazal) One of the most important books from Iran, and Hedayat’s magnum opus. This brilliant book is the literary manifestation of a fever dream. Hedayat leads us through the non-linear story of an unnamed narrator, plagued by death and murderous intentions. A wildly unconventional piece of literature, with subtle plays on the…

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