Re-Reading the Dark Tower Series - The Wind Through the Keyhole
The next stop on Joe’s journey of re-reading The Dark Tower series is The Wind Through the Keyhole.
Read MoreThe Nest by Kenneth Oppel - A Great Gateway Read For Non-Horror Fans
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
Read MoreDream Date! A Spooky Reads Review of a '90s Teen Classic (Copy)
For Wicked Love week Bryce has another ‘90s teen book for you, this one with a Wes Craven feel!
Read MoreButchers Makes a Big Punch in a Few Pages
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
Read MoreBehemoth is a Strong 5/5
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
Read MoreThe Mentor - Lee Mathew Goldberg (Book Tour)
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.
Read MoreThe Shining Girls is a Unique and Violent Horror
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
Read MoreThe Last God - Review For The First Three Parts
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
Read MoreWe Are Monsters by Brian Kirk is a Unique Addition To The Asylum Sub Genre
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
Read MoreHappy Hour: and Other Philadelphia Cruelties by Tony Knighton
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
Read MoreWhat I’m Reading for Women in Horror Month
Here’s everything Christina is reading for women in horror month!
Read MoreA Sick Gray Laugh Like Nothing I've Read Before
From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Nicole Cushing comes A Sick Gray Laugh, a novel about madness, depression, history, Utopian cults, literature, sports, and all the ways we struggle to stay sane in an insane world - reviewed by Joe
Read MoreField Trip! A Spooky Reads Review of a '90s Teen Classic
Bryce is back with ‘90s teen goodness. This month he’s reviewing something a little different - Field Trip!
Read MoreSpooky Twisties I, II, and III by Terri Bertha
A group of short story collections for tweens! Dave reviews…
Read MoreBenny Rose: The Cannibal King - Hailey Piper
Blackwood, Vermont has one legend to its name—Benny Rose, the Cannibal King. Every local kid knows him and tells his stories, especially on Halloween. When a new girl moves to town in the autumn of 1987, the legend inspires high school junior Desiree St. Fleur and her friends to pull a Benny Rose-themed prank. A few laughs and screams, and they’ll have a Happy Halloween.
But a vicious storm crashes into Blackwood and interrupts the festivities. Soon the girls find themselves trapped and hunted in a strange neighborhood where no one will help them. There’s nothing made-up about Benny Rose this Halloween night. The truth is coming, and it's hungry. - reviewed by Joe
My Dead and Blackened Heart by Andrew Freudenberg
14 stories of terror, dread and fatherhood.
From the isolation of space, to the ever-watchful eyes in a darkening wood, Andrew Freudenberg takes us on a journey exploring the themes of friendship, fatherhood and loss, as we pick through the remains of his dead and blackened heart. - Bear is reviewing!
Read MoreInfested by Carol Gore Review!
A great combination of horror, romance and drama, is brought together in the new release of Infested. This is one that you will not want to miss, so add it to your must-read list today! Check out Dahlia’s review and then pick up the book yourself, releasing on January 23rd!
Read MoreThe Remaking - a MUST read for horror fans!
“In the 1930s, a mother and daughter are burned at the stake as witches. Their story inspires an urban legend told around a campfire in the ‘50s, a ‘70s horror flick, a ‘90s meta remake, and a true crime podcast. But all this storytelling comes with a cost…” - I’m reviewing The Remaking
Read MoreServed Cold - A Short Story Collection That Will Crawl Under Your Skin
Collected together for the first time ever, these sixteen provocative and intensely chilling tales by multi-award-winning-author Alan Baxter venture into the depths of the darkest and most shadowy places where unspeakable horrors are the predators and we the willing prey. -reviewed by Joe!
Read MoreTOP 10 READS OF 2019
Four of us at Horror Bound have put together our various top 10 horror reads of the year! Lots of great reads in here, check it out and fill up your TBR for 2020.
Read More