Rating: 5 out of 5 Felix Blackwell’s horror novel Stolen Tongues is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read! I love horror, but I don’t find most horror novels “frightening” per se. This book is different. It just happens…
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Review: “Garbage Man,” Joseph D’Lacey
Rating: 4 out of 5 In Joseph D’Lacey’s eco-horror novel Garbage Man, the Earth has had enough of all the waste humanity is dumping. An unusual thunderstorm awakens a handful of little garbage creatures that seem to want to eat…
Review: “My Soul to Keep,” Tananarive Due
Rating: 5 out of 5 Tananarive Due’s My Soul to Keep (African Immortals series, 1) is almost a vampire book, but not quite. There’s no blood-drinking, but there is an immortality that can be passed on to others through blood.…
Review: “The Bridge,” John Skipp and Craig Spector
Rating: 4 out of 5 John Skipp and Craig Spector’s The Bridge is what we call “eco-horror”–a story in which nature and the environment become mankind’s enemy. In this case, our long history of dumping our refuse wherever we can…
Review: “Lost Solace,” Karl Drinkwater
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 In Karl Drinkwater’s science fiction/horror novel Lost Solace (1), Opal, a rogue soldier, has stolen a ship with an experimental AI on board. She hacked the AI and gave it her little sister’s name, Clarissa.…
Review: “The Haunted Forest Tour,” James A. Moore, Jeff Strand
Rating: 5 out of 5 James A. Moore and Jeff Strand’s The Haunted Forest Tour is both a tense creature-feature and an often-humorous horror novel. A few years ago a bunch of pine trees just sprang up fully-formed from the…
Mother Horror’s “Women In Horror” Collection
Sadie Hartmann, also known as “Mother Horror,” has put together a list of 100(!) horror books written or edited by women. Check it out!
Review: “Salvaged,” Madeleine Roux
Rating: 5 out of 5 In Madeleine Roux’s Salvaged, Rosalyn Devar works as a salvager, going out to “dead” spaceships to clean up the bodies. It’s a cruddy job for someone as highly-educated and competent as she is, but she…
Review: “A Broken Darkness,” Premee Mohamed
Rating: 5 out of 5 NOTE ADDED: Now it’s looking like there WILL be a third book in this series, so I’m upping my rating to a 5/5. I’m fine with waiting to see what’s going on–I just didn’t want…