Flash fiction horror holds a special place in my heart. For a few pages, I can deeply immerse myself in a terrifying world and experience every...
This novella and its schoolgirl narrator pack a punch. Our narrator recounts her boarding school days and her obsession with her best friend. The text takes...
Mona Awad’s Bunny is a grotesque, Ivy-League version of Mean Girls. It involves some truly hideous and harrowing moments, but always couches those in sarcasm and...
Why are there so many books about the Black Dahlia? Every couple of years brings a new one to light and they all have their own...
Brian Evenson’s most recent collection, Song for the Unraveling of the World, illuminates the apocalyptic and dread. Evil encompasses the lives of every character in these...
The one word I would use to describe Rory Power’s sophomore novel, Burn Our Bodies Down, is bizarre. There’s something about it that’s just…off. It’s like...
Welcome back to Graphic Content. There was a mix-up in numbering last time, but I can assure you that this is #5. But hey, enough about...
I wasn’t alive in the 1980s, but I love reading books set in the time period. There’s just something about the aesthetic and the simplicity of...
Part horror story, part fable, this novella follows the story of Pringles, Argentina. A middle-aged bachelor and his mother visit his wealthy friend and sees all...
I knew about two pages in that The Easton Falls Massacre was going to be something special. You never know what you’re going to get from...
Welcome back to Haunted MTL’s ongoing horror comic review feature, Graphic Content. In our fourth installment, we’ll be keeping up with John Constantine: Hellblazer and Sink. With previous favorite...
Incredibly vivid, heavily detailed, brilliantly written and fast-paced, Columbine is one of the best true crime books I’ve ever read. Written like a thriller, Dave Cullen,...
Delicious AND nutritious.
Sparsity in Eugene Marten’s “Waste” creates a chillingly bleak atmosphere. In only 116 pages, Marten strings the reader through the daily life of a janitor, Sloper....
Welcome back to Haunted MTL’s ongoing horror comic review feature, Graphic Content. In our third installment, we’ll be keeping up with John Constantine: Hellblazer, Killadelphia, and...
One thing I love in a story is when a strong friendship is central to the plot. Whether it’s Lord of the Rings or Scooby Doo,...
As John Mulaney said, “it was really easy to get away with murder before they knew about DNA”, and he was right. It was also ridiculously...
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Hello everyone! It’s me, Shane. Remember your old pal, Shane? Well, I’m back and I’m here again to talk to you about comics and monsters. Two...
At one time or another, we’ve all heard of Rhett & Link, the goofy duo eating foods they shouldn’t and bathing in liquids we’d never dreamed...