Cricket Hunters is a Spooky Good Time, Strong 5/5

March 19, 2020 by Angie in Spooky Reads

Celia Lundy was fifteen in the fall of 1998 when Abby Powell, one of her five friends who called themselves the Cricket Hunters, disappeared without a trace. Three key suspects emerged and were focused on, but no evidence was found. Eventually, the case went cold, and the passage of time buried the truth of Abby Powell’s fate.

Fifteen years later, as the anniversary of Abby’s disappearance approaches, Cel’s life is upended when her husband Parker, also once a Cricket Hunter, goes missing. When bizarre clues surface that point to a link between Parker’s and Abby’s disappearances, Cel is forced to delve back into the past in order to navigate the present. - reviewed by Angie

Coyote Rage - Shape-Shifters, Talking Animals, Brutal Death Scenes OH MY

March 18, 2020 by Joe in Spooky Reads

Shape-shifters. An alternate dimension. Talking animals. Brutal death scenes. Talking corpses. You’re going to get all that and one hell of a story in The Bram Stoker nominated novel Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback.

A Perfect Nightstand Collection - Disturbing Works: Volume Two Review

March 14, 2020 by Dahlia in Spooky Reads

Disturbing Works: Volume Two is a collection that will probably make you stay up late on more than one occasion. Your new mantra will quickly become ‘just one more story, just one more...’ and you will not want to close the pages. - check out Dahlia’s review, we’re the last stop on the Blackthorn Book Tour for Jon Richter’s Disturbing Works Volume Two!

The Little Door Has The Best Stuff You Need For a Horror Novella

March 11, 2020 by Joe in Spooky Reads

The Little Door is the brand new novella from Josh Radwell. Joe reviews!

The Roo Review - Massive. Killer. Kangaroo.

March 10, 2020 by Joe in Spooky Reads

Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek. A farmer goes missing after a blue in the pub. A teenage couple fail to show up for work. When Patrick and Sheila McDonough investigate, they discover the missing persons list is growing. Before they realize what’s happening, the residents of the remote town find themselves in a fight for their lives against a foe they would never have suspected. And the dry red earth will run with blood. - reviewed by Joe

A Touch of Happy by Andrew Kanago

March 09, 2020 by Ezekiel in Spooky Reads

Mark Peter - middle-aged, soft belly, weed wacker haircut - likes the quiet life. Any day spent indoors eating frozen pizzas, painting RPG figures in the basement, and feeding his scruffy cat is a good day.The problem is the outside world. When Mark touches certain things, he draws. Sometimes it's a little boy lost in the woods, sometimes a throw pillow held tight against a grandmother's face as she scratches at gloved hands... The FBI likes to call on Mark to help find missing people. Sometimes they're even found alive.Then a body is found in a neighboring town, and the FBI thinks it is the work of a murderer long thought dead. Mark refuses to help, and more bodies are found. The killer gets in contact with the quiet, middle-aged man with a weed wacker haircut.If that isn't enough, Mark may have found his soulmate. - Ezekiel reviews!

Re-Reading the Dark Tower Series - The Wind Through the Keyhole

March 02, 2020 by Joe in Spooky Reads

The next stop on Joe’s journey of re-reading The Dark Tower series is The Wind Through the Keyhole.

Dream Date! A Spooky Reads Review of a '90s Teen Classic

February 26, 2020 by Bryce in Spooky Reads

For Wicked Love week Bryce has another ‘90s teen book for you, this one with a Wes Craven feel!

The Exorcist - Book vs Movie!

February 21, 2020 by Dave in Horror Movie Reviews, Spooky Reads

Dave is going through the biggest battle of all - The Exorcist BOOK VS MOVIE! See where he weighs in.

Butchers Makes a Big Punch in a Few Pages

February 20, 2020 by Joe in Spooky Reads

Kidnapped, turned, and locked away in a concrete basement, high school student Sey-Mi is taught the ways of the damned. Her captors, beautiful and malignant, cruel and insane, torture her until she pledges allegiance to the Gwanlyo, a secret organization of vampires now obsessed with bringing her into their ranks.Enter Cheol Yu and Hyeri, rogue members who want to liberate vampires and set them upon humankind like a plague…. - reviewed by Joe

Behemoth is a Strong 5/5

February 19, 2020 by Bear in Spooky Reads

BEHEMOTH is set in a small town whose residents start disappearing after dark. An angry husband. A lonely old woman. A small boy asleep in his bed. Gone without a trace. And only one person wants to talk about what is happening—a father who is afraid his daughter will vanish next. His claims of a creature in the woods are met with disbelief . . . until he is found dead on a New York City street. - Bear reviews

The Nest by Kenneth Oppel - A Great Gateway Read For Non-Horror Fans

February 18, 2020 by Dave in Spooky Reads

For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to “fix” the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered. All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back? - Dave reviews

The Mentor - Lee Mathew Goldberg (Book Tour)

February 14, 2020 by Dave in Spooky Reads

Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house.

When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He would love to read the opus his mentor has toiled over.

Until the novel turns out to be not only horribly written, but the most depraved story Kyle has read.

After Kyle politely rejects the novel, William becomes obsessed, causing trouble between Kyle and Jamie, threatening Kyle’s career, and even his life. As Kyle delves into more of this psychopath’s work, it begins to resemble a cold case from his college town, when a girl went missing. William’s work is looking increasingly like a true crime confession.

The Shining Girls is a Unique and Violent Horror

February 11, 2020 by Charlotte Hollingsworth in Spooky Reads

In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with a former homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby races against time and reason to unravel an impossible mystery. - reviewed by Charlotte

The Last God - Review For The First Three Parts

February 11, 2020 by Dan in Spooky Reads

So you say you like your horror with a little Conan-like swordplay and Lovecraftian creatures from beyond? Then why not check out this new 12 part DC Comics series released under their Black Label imprint. We’re unwrapping what madness lurks atop the Black Stair in this peek of the first three issues of The Last God. - Dan

Midnight in the Graveyard - Short Story Collection

February 06, 2020 by Joe in Spooky Reads

We’ve got an epic new short story collection for you to check out today: Midnight in the Graveyard — reviewed by Joe!

We Are Monsters by Brian Kirk is a Unique Addition To The Asylum Sub Genre

February 04, 2020 by Charlotte Hollingsworth in Spooky Reads

Some doctors are sicker than their patients. When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum’s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital’s most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free. - Charlotte reviews

Happy Hour: and Other Philadelphia Cruelties by Tony Knighton

February 04, 2020 by Ezekiel in Spooky Reads

A young grifter steals an overcoat. As he discovers forty-thousand dollars in its inside pocket, the coat’s owners come after him. The action never stops as his pursuers seem to be both ahead and behind him at all times, killing and destroying everything in their wake to catch up with their money and the young thief. Knighton’s debut novella is accompanied by a selection of short stories that can run with the best of American Noir literature. It’s cold out there, folks. -reviewed by Zeke

What I’m Reading for Women in Horror Month

February 03, 2020 by Guest Writer in Top Tens, Spooky Reads

Here’s everything Christina is reading for women in horror month!

Field Trip! A Spooky Reads Review of a '90s Teen Classic

January 31, 2020 by Bryce in Spooky Reads

Bryce is back with ‘90s teen goodness. This month he’s reviewing something a little different - Field Trip!