Horror Comedy Gold: Shirley Barrett’s “The Bus on Thursday”
Barrett has created a truly sardonic dark comedy horror novel in The Bus on Thursday. Eleanor’s life…
(Now) July Release: “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones
Publishing Schedule: Originally set to be published in April, then moved to May, this release has now…
Ottessa Moshfegh’s “McGlue” and Psychological Terror
A complicated fever dream of a novella that follows McGlue as he’s arrested for the murder of…
Kealan Patrick Burke and his novella “Blanky”
As a longtime fan of Burke, I’ve felt that his horror writing is super underrated. He self…
William Gay’s Twilight: Southern Gothic and Horror
Plot For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Ron Rash, Donald Ray Pollock, and Stephen Graham Jones is William…
Donald Ray Pollock’s “The Devil All the Time”
What a gritty, vicious, absolutely stunning first novel from Pollock. Pollock’s work definitely is not for the…
Samanta Schweblin’s Nightmare That I Love to Live In
A couple of months ago, I read Samanta Schweblin’s “Fever Dream,” a novella I raced through in…
Breaking the Poetry Barrier: Horror in Danielle Pafunda’s “The Dead Girls Speak in Unison”
I had quite a strange reading experience with this little book of striking poems. At first, I…
Why We, as Horror Consumers, Should Give Gillian Flynn Another Chance
Gillian Flynn’s extremely popular mainstream hit Gone Girl had tremendous success as a thriller novel and film….