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Monday, September 7, 2026

Book review: The Calamities by Chuck Wendig

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chuck Wendig is a New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and game designer known for novels like The Book of Accidents, Wanderers, and Wayward. He was a finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. He is also widely known for his popular writing blog, terribleminds, and lives in Pennsylvania with his family.

Publisher: Del Rey (US) / Cornerstone (UK) Length: 592 pages Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, and Audiobook

Monday, July 27, 2026

Book review: Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chuck Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits time between Billings, Montana and Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.

Learn more at www.ChuckTingle.com

Publisher: Tor Nightfire (July 7, 2026) Page count: 240 Formats:ab, eb, tp, hc

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Book review: Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Luke Dumas is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing Tastes as Good, The Paleontologist, and A History of Fear.

He is the winner of a 2024 ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, was nominated for the Silver Falchion Award for Best Supernatural, and his work has been optioned for film and TV.

He received his master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked in nonprofit philanthropy for more than a decade with organizations including San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the American Red Cross.

Luke was born and raised in San Diego, California, where he lives with his husband and dogs and works for a biomedical research institute.

Publisher: Atria Books (March 31, 2026)  Page count: 352 Formats: audiobook, ebook, paperback Genre: Horror (ish)
Monday, May 11, 2026

Book review: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliever


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion animator. His debut novel We Used to Live Here began life as a serialized short story on Reddit, where it won the Scariest Story of 2021 Award on the NoSleep forum (eighteen million members). Film rights were snapped up by Netflix, and it was acquired for publication even before it had been extended into a full-length novel. His second novel, The Caretaker, is coming in Spring 2026. Marcus Kliewer lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Genre: Horror

Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books (April 21, 2026) Page count: 320 Formats: audiobook, ebook, paperback 
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer (Reviewed by Shazzie)

Book Review: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer



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Book links: Goodreads

BLURB: Follow the Rites...

Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake.


From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater—and more dangerous—than she ever could have imagined.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Book review: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Philip Fracassi is the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award-nominated author of the novels Don’t Let Them Get You Down, A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. His upcoming books include the novels The Third Rule of Time Travel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre, and Sarafina.

Publisher: Tor Nightfire (September 30, 2025) Page count: 416 Formats: audiobook, ebook, paperback 

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Book review: King Sorrow by Joe Hill

 King Sorrow by Joe Hill Review


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joe Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman... which was also the winner of a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel.

He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.

He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.

He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, storms into bookstores in October of 2017

Publisher: William Morrow (October 21, 2025) Length: 896 pages Formats: all

Monday, November 3, 2025

Greedy by Callie Kazumi

 Book review: Greedy by Callie Kazumi




Book links: Publisher websiteGoodreads


Publisher: Bantam (February 2026) Formats: Hardcover and kindle


Synopsis: Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.

But just as he’s about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can’t refuse.


A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The only she has some. . . unusual tastes.

As he prepares delicious dishes – fresh crab salad with a panko crumb, lamb shank dripping in red wine juice, sweet, fluffy soufflé pancakes – he realizes that each meal is a test, a challenge to satisfy an insatiable appetite.

Caught up in a world more sinister than he could ever have imagined, Ed finds himself entangled in another debt.

As the stakes grow, he must make a choice.
Will he stay hungry? Or will he be greedy?


Dinner is served.
Eat Up.
Friday, July 18, 2025

Book review: Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ling Ling Huang is a writer and violinist. She plays with several ensembles including the Music Kitchen, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, Shattered Glass, and Experiential Orchestra, with whom she won a Grammy award in 2020. Natural Beauty is her first novel.

Published: April 4, 2023 by Dutton Page count: 272 pages  Formats: audiobook, ebook, hardback, paperback

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Book review: Old Soul by Susan Barker

 

Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: SUSAN BARKER is the author of four books. Her third novel, The Incarnations, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book, a Kirkus Reviews’ Top Ten Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. An excerpt from her fourth novel, Old Soul, won a Northern Writers’ Award for Fiction in 2020. Susan currently lives in Manchester, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (January 28, 2025) Length: 352 pages, Hardcover Formats: Audiobook, ebook, hardcover, paperback

Monday, March 10, 2025

Book review: Once Was Willem by M.R. carey


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mike Carey is the acclaimed writer of Lucifer and Hellblazer (now filmed as Constantine). He has recently completed a comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and is the current writer on Marvel's X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four. He has also written the screenplay for a movie, Frost Flowers, which is soon to be produced by Hadaly Films and Bluestar Pictures.

Also writes as Mike Carey

Publisher: Orbit (March 4, 2025) Length: 310 pages Formats: audiobook, ebook, paperback

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Book review: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Grady Hendrix is the author of the novels Horrorstör, about a haunted IKEA, and My Best Friend's Exorcism, which is like Beaches meets The Exorcist, only it's set in the Eighties. He's also the author of We Sold Our Souls, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and the Final Girl Support Group!

He's also the jerk behind the Stoker award-winning Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the 70's and 80's horror paperback boom, which contains more information about Nazi leprechauns, killer babies, and evil cats than you probably need.

And he's the screenwriter behind Mohawk, which is probably the only horror movie about the War of 1812 and Satanic Panic.

You can listen to free, amazing, and did I mention free podcasts of his fiction on Pseudopod. He also does a podcast called Super Scary Haunted Homeschool.

If you're not already sick of him, you can learn all his secrets at his website.

Publisher: Berkley (January 14, 2025) Length: 468  Formats: audiobook, ebook, hardcover, paperback
Monday, February 3, 2025

Book review: The Devil By Name by Keith Rosson (Fever House #2)

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Keith Rosson is the author of the novels The Mercy of the Tide and Smoke City, and his short fiction has appeared in Cream City Review, PANK, December, The Nervous Breakdown, and more. He's been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a finalist for the Birdwhistle Prize for Short Fiction. He’s also an illustrator and graphic designer, with clients that include Green Day, Against Me, the Goo Goo Dolls, and others. A fierce advocate of public libraries and non-ironic adulation of the cassette tape, he can be found at keithrosson.com.

Publisher:  Random House (September 10, 2024) Length: 400 pages Formats: audiobook, ebook, paperback 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Book review: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Olga Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels, three short story collections and has been translated into more than fifty languages. Her novel Flights won the 2018 International Booker Prize, in Jennifer Croft’s translation. She is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Publisher: Riverhead Books (September 24, 2024) Length: 320 pages Formats: audiobook, ebook, hardback, paperback Translator: Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Book review: Bury Your Gays by Chuck TIngle


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: CHUCK TINGLE is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Straight. He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and lives in Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.

Publisher: Tor Nightfire (July 9, 2024) Length: 304 pages Formats: audiobook, ebook, hardback

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Book review: The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman

Credit: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-walking-dead

Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for co-creating The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Invincible, Tech Jacket, Outcast, Oblivion Song, and Fire Power for Image Comics, in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men, Irredeemable Ant-Man and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt.

He is one of the five partners of Image Comics currently serving as COO.

Publisher: Image Comics Length: +/- 4500 pages Formats: 193 single issues, available in many collected aeditions
Friday, October 11, 2024

Book review: Evil in Me by Brom


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Over the past few decades, acclaimed dark fantasy artist Brom has lent his distinctive vision to all facets of the creative industries, from novels and games to comics and film. He is the nationally bestselling author of Slewfoot, The Child Thief, Krampus, The Lost Gods and the award-winning illustrated horror novels The Plucker and The Devil's Rose. Brom is currently kept in a dank cellar just outside of Savannah.

Publisher: Tor Nightfire Length: 304 pages Formats: audio, ebook, paperback, hardcover
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Book review: Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

Publisher: Del Rey (June 25, 2024) Length: 384 pages Formats: audiobook, ebook, hardcover Book design: Diane Hobbing 

Friday, June 14, 2024

Book review: All The Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adam L.G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is an author of horror fiction. Of his novels, 'The Ritual', 'Last Days', 'No One Gets Out Alive' and 'The Reddening' were all winners of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. He has also published three collections of short stories, with 'Some Will Not Sleep' winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2017.

The author lives in Devon, England. More information about the author and his books is available at: www.adamlgnevill.com

Publisher: Ritual Limited; 1st edition (April 2, 2024) Length: 393 pages Formats: audiobook, ebook, paperback Genre: sci-fi horror
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Book review: Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rachel Harrison is the national bestselling author of Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut collection, Bad Dolls. She lives in western New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.

Publisher: Berkley (September 19, 2023) Page count: 308 Formats: audiobook, ebook, hardback, paperback Genre: Horror

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