When the school year begins at Here, and Only Here, a teacher assigns the students to their double desks, one above and one below the line. That line becomes all important because the below students give the above students their... Continue Reading →
Night Letter is the story of Travis Hollister, an eighteen-year-old boy just released from the reform school where he has been institutionalized for the past six years. His first act of freedom was a reckless defiance of the institution's psychiatrist.... Continue Reading →
The Woods Are Waiting is one of those Southern gothics drenched in history, folklore, and blood. Cheyenne Ashby is an Ashby, a member of a family whose potions, spells, and sacrifices have protected Blue Cliff, a small town in the... Continue Reading →
When a friend recommends Alex to attend a month-long writing workshop offered by her favorite author, feminist-horror writer Roza Vallo, she is over the moon. Even the realization that her former roommate and best friend cum enemy is also attending... Continue Reading →
The Family Plot begins with the Lighthouse children returning home after their father's death. Dahlia Lighthouse hopes her twin Andy will finally return since he left on his sixteenth birthday. Her older siblings Charlie and Tate are there, the first... Continue Reading →
Follow Me To Ground is the story of Ada and her father who live outside a village they serve by curing what ails them. They sometimes have to bury them in "The Ground" for a few days for the cure to... Continue Reading →
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts is an enjoyable mystery, the first of what I hope will be a series featuring the stubborn researcher Tuesday Mooney. Mooney is a character after my own heart, prickly, solitary, and brilliant. She works as... Continue Reading →
Melmoth is a horror story designed for book lovers. It has old manuscripts, libraries, and a haunting presence you can acquire just by reading about her. Melmoth is the woman who saw the risen Jesus and denied it and is now... Continue Reading →
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is perfectly timed for the Halloween season, a Gothic Groundhog Day thriller with a twist as our hero starts each new day in a different one of the house guests attending a week-long country manor... Continue Reading →
The Clockmaker's Daughter is a complex history covering several people who through accident or design find themselves at Birchwood Manor, a place that makes people feel safe and secure, blessed by the Faery Queen for sheltering the Eldritch Children according to... Continue Reading →
There's something about Johnny Merrimon in John Hart's The Hush that sets people on edge. Perhaps it's his history, the murder of his sister, the terrible deaths that happened ten years ago in John Hart's The Last Child. Or, maybe it's because... Continue Reading →
A Guide for Murdered Children is one of those "what the heck did I just read" kind of books–in a good way. The problem is, the premise of the story is so much the story that telling you what it is... Continue Reading →
Gods of Howl Mountain is one of those Southern gothic novels full of magic and menace. Our main characters are Granny May, a fount of folk wisdom and healing, and her grandson Rory, a bootlegger with a souped-up car who left a... Continue Reading →
I doubt there will ever be an end to the demand for new Sherlock Holmes stories. After all, Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock, yet public outcry brought him back despite The Great Hiatus–itself a source for new... Continue Reading →
In describing Keith Rosson's The Mercy of the Tide, the publisher wrote that he "paints outside the typical genre lines." That is true. This is a story of family struggle with grief, a coming-of-age story, the story of a man breaking down... Continue Reading →
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