What a gritty, vicious, absolutely stunning first novel from Pollock. Pollock’s work definitely is not for the lighthearted and has a lot of McCarthy vibes. I...
Stop the presses, I have an announcement. This episode is the second one in the season with a title that makes sense. Remember when that used...
One of Mexico’s most well-known short story authors is at last in translation. Amparo Dávila’s 12 stories in The Houseguest & Other Stories, translated by Audrey Harris...
A couple of months ago, I read Samanta Schweblin’s “Fever Dream,” a novella I raced through in one sitting, compelled by the weirdness and creepy vibe...
I had quite a strange reading experience with this little book of striking poems. At first, I was reading through the poems and getting extremely frustrated....
Gillian Flynn’s extremely popular mainstream hit Gone Girl had tremendous success as a thriller novel and film. It seemed as if the world came alive for...
Well, here we are. Issue four of four. Does Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter present a satisfying conclusion to the story, or does it lean...
This episode starts with a cockroach unable to get up off its back in the woods, and it just never regains that level of interest. Ralph...
Jac Jemc’s writing immediately captivated me when I first read her story “Any Other.” This tale, about an unsettling transaction between people who are not what...
Spoilers You click on HauntedMTL because you’re into horror. You scroll through the feed, wondering which review to read. You find one about a book that...
And for once, the title actually makes sense! Episode six of HBO’s The Outsider proved once again that if you add extra content to a show...
With two successful and fascinating issues delivered, we find ourselves in the last half of the series. Our story is coming to a close, but what...
Episode five of HBO’s The Outsider didn’t start with a bang. Instead, it crept into the mind of viewers and left one with a shaking feeling...
Episode four of HBO’s The Outsider focused largely on the adventures of Holly. So it was a great episode in my opinion. Holly’s been contracted to...
Episode two of HBO’s The Outsider was more of the same sort of work we saw in Episode one. There were some concerns, of course. Nothing’s...
The 12-issue manga “Death Note” by Tsugumi Ohba ended over 10 years ago but its legacy is still going strong. The series follows ambitious high school...
Based on the 2018 novel by Stephen King, The Outsider is the latest of HBO’s mini series. I love a good mini series, and King’s work...
We return to the second installment of the now-completed Count Crowley saga, but we’re going to continue to review each issue individually. How does the production...
I come to you, just finishing Aliya Whiteley‘s The Beauty. My version is sitting here next to me, marked up with a red pen, a coffee...
We’re now two-issues deep into the John Constantine: Hellblazer-revamp. Does the second issue continue the strengths of the relaunch, or does the team find themselves getting...