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Continue reading →: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee BakerHeartbreaking, spine-tingling, funny, and eloquently written. Set during the first few months of the COVID outbreak, Cora Zeng is trying to navigate the world as a crime scene cleaner after watching her sister get murdered on the subway platform. When she starts seeing a pattern to the crimes she’s cleaning… Read More
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Continue reading →: Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeesterRelease Date: December 9, 2025 An ancient curse afflicting generations of women, religious trauma, witchcraft, and sapphic longing…a Tour-De-Force by a uniquely refreshing voice in horror. I went into Dark Sisters with the expectation I was going to read an historical witchcraft story, but what I got was a haunting… Read More
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Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert
Sometimes it’s best to ignore the Booktok hype… SPOILERS AHEAD! This review contains spoilers, so turn back now if you’re not ready for that. . . . This was a disappointment. This book was SO hyped as a “scary horror”… It’s not horror. It’s like a male Freida McFadden wrote this. While I was initially…
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What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould
Happy Publication Day! Yellowjackets meets Girl, Interrupted when a group of troubled teens in a wilderness therapy program find themselves stranded in a forest full of monsters eager to take their place. This book was a thrilling, entrancing, horrific, beautiful adventure about found family, trauma, resilience, and how not everything is as it seems. This is the first…
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Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy
A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant. This was a TRIP. Nat Cassidy has a way with words and connecting you to the protagonist in his novels. Mary: An Awakening of Terror was a masterpiece in character development and atmosphere. While…
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Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Trigger Warnings: Graphic child death, animal death, gore. Release Date: February 4, 2025 This book has been on my radar since Mother Horror (Sadie Hartmann) brought it to everyone’s attention on her Instagram recently. So I was quick to request an ARC through NetGalley, and was pleasantly surprised when I was accepted! Thank you to…
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Moving & Some Updates
The big news: We’re moving. Posting might be a little sporadic for a few months due to our impending cross-country move! Unfortunately, this was not expected. We (my husband and I) had planned to move in about 3 years. However, given the election results, and general state of the country, we will be relocating before…
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