Sometimes dead is better
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 MoreA 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 MoreHere’s everything Christina is reading for women in horror month!
Read MoreFrom 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 MoreBryce is back with ‘90s teen goodness. This month he’s reviewing something a little different - Field Trip!
Read MoreA group of short story collections for tweens! Dave reviews…
Read MoreBlackwood, 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
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 MoreA 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 More“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 MoreCollected 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 MoreFour 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 MoreCuriosity may have killed the cat, but supernatural curiosities brought it back. A Jack-in-the-Box made from skulls. A monster egg in the mail. A sketchbook bridging imagination with reality. What other wondrous and terrible secrets will these survivors tell? Cruel Works of Nature is a collection of 11 horror novellas about strange and exciting supernatural encounters. - E. Reyes is reviewing!
Read More“Readers will journey to the depths of hell, go on a daddy-daughter date, learn what's locked in Lee's basement, watch a mother battle postpartum depression, eat the world's messiest birthday cake with Brian, and try to survive in the English countryside during the blitz.” - Dave reviews!
Read MoreBryce continues to take us down a 90’s teen fiction memory lane. For Christmas Day he’s reviewing Slay Ride - time to get dark on Christmas ya’ll.
Read MoreChristmas IS ALMOST HERE! And we’ve got some last minute gift guides for the horror readers in your life, young and old!
Read MoreThe Royce family has been a plague on the small, Southern town of Lewis for generations. Caleb has heard rumors about the family his whole life, just like he's heard the rumors about a monstrous creature known as Catfish John living in the swamp. When the Royce house burns down, Caleb's father—Lewis's sheriff—takes in the sole survivor, a young girl named Cere. Caleb quickly learns the truth about Archie Royce and the terrible fate he had planned for his daughter. After a woman is brutally murdered, Cere begins to suspect that not all of her family perished in the fire, and she and Caleb set out to stop her father's dark vision from coming to pass. Years later, Caleb is the sheriff of Lewis, and the monsters of his childhood return. Now Caleb must fight to protect those he loves from Archie Royce's legacy, and his best hope may be a legend he's almost managed to convince himself never existed—Catfish John. - reviewed by Joe
Read MoreA witch in a cabin in the woods, a boy’s camp for out of control boys, a missing boy, a dead boy, and a snowstorm. This is the premise to Winterwood, a YA fantasy mystery that is the perfect Christmas read if you’re into a more…dark Christmas.
Read MoreThe Master of Horror takes a turn at writing The Clown Prince of Crime as part of DC Comics Year of the Villain universe-spanning event. Click on as we dive into John Carpenter’s The Joker: Year of the Villain one shot.
Read MoreA teen mother raises her daughter on a looping road trip, living hand-to-mouth in motel rest stops and backwater towns, stepping occasionally into the heat and chaos of the surrounding cities. A life without permanence, filled with terrors and joys, their stability is dependent on the strangers—and strange men—they meet along the way. But what is the difference between the love of a mother, and the love of a friend? And in a world with such blurred lines, where money is tight and there’s little outside influence, when does the need to survive slide into something more sinister? - Reviewed by Joe
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