Poppy Z. Brite’s Exquisite Corpse
Happy Transgender Awareness Week, horror fam! To celebrate we’re doing a look back at a book by one of…
Book Reviews
Eldritch tomes? Thrillers? We cover the best in horror books.
An interview with horror author, Lance Reedingee
Today for your chilling reading pleasure, we have an interview with Lance Reedingee, the author of the creepy horror…
Caitlin Starling’s The Luminous Dead – maybe WFH isn’t so bad after all.
There’s a lot of things in Caitlin Starling’s The Luminous Dead that are relatable in our present day post-Covid…
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
I knew from the very first page of the prologue of Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson’s Stoker award winning…
Leonora Carrington: The Aesop’s Fables of Horror
Leonora Carrington creates Aesop’s fables with sick twists. This is the best way that I can describe this collection…
True Crime Studies: “Murder, Magic, Madness” recounts a very strange crime in a very strange time
Penned by Owen Davies, a historian on modern and contemporary witchcraft, Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove…
Tiny Nightmares: A Halloween Flash Fiction Treat
Flash fiction horror holds a special place in my heart. For a few pages, I can deeply immerse myself…
Fleur Jaeggy’s “Sweet Days of Discipline”
This novella and its schoolgirl narrator pack a punch. Our narrator recounts her boarding school days and her obsession…
Bunny, by Mona Awad: Storytelling is Scary
Mona Awad’s Bunny is a grotesque, Ivy-League version of Mean Girls. It involves some truly hideous and harrowing moments,…
True Crime Studies: Black Dahlia Avenger, it’s more blind accusation than actual theory
Why are there so many books about the Black Dahlia? Every couple of years brings a new one to…
Song for the Unraveling of the World: A Book Review
Brian Evenson’s most recent collection, Song for the Unraveling of the World, illuminates the apocalyptic and dread. Evil encompasses…
Burn Our Bodies Down: Beware the Corn
The one word I would use to describe Rory Power’s sophomore novel, Burn Our Bodies Down, is bizarre. There’s…
Graphic Content #5
Welcome back to Graphic Content. There was a mix-up in numbering last time, but I can assure you that…
It Came From the Multiplex: Horror and Nostalgia
I wasn’t alive in the 1980s, but I love reading books set in the time period. There’s just something…
“Dinner” by Cesar Aira
Part horror story, part fable, this novella follows the story of Pringles, Argentina. A middle-aged bachelor and his mother…
The Easton Falls Massacre: Bigfoot’s Revenge review
I knew about two pages in that The Easton Falls Massacre was going to be something special. You never…
Graphic Content #4
Welcome back to Haunted MTL’s ongoing horror comic review feature, Graphic Content. In our fourth installment, we’ll be keeping up…
True Crime Studies: Columbine by Dave Cullen
Incredibly vivid, heavily detailed, brilliantly written and fast-paced, Columbine is one of the best true crime books I’ve ever…
Tender is the Flesh: Capitalistic Cannibalism
Delicious AND nutritious.
“Waste” by Eugene Marten
Sparsity in Eugene Marten’s “Waste” creates a chillingly bleak atmosphere. In only 116 pages, Marten strings the reader through…