Literature
Our latest articles on horror literature – reviews, analysis, insights and even news!
Preston Allen’s 2024 novel, I Disappeared Them is a riveting exploration of human complexity, blending elements of mystery, psychological depth, and societal commentary into a compelling narrative. It evokes disgust and rage from the reader, but also at times empathy and a sense of relatability as we struggle to answer the age-old question of nature
What sorts of things go bump in the night? What monstrous things come to feast upon your flesh and bone? Are they real or imagined, and in the end does it really matter? Jeani Rector and Dean H. Wild bring us an exciting anthology of horror stories, featuring both tried and true masters of the
Another day, another round of Recent Reads, eh, GoH readers? For this one, I’ve got a decent variety, I think. For this one, we went to space and maybe time-traveled a bit, went into a Fulci-esque experience, and finally, explored the horrors of conversion therapy. Metro 7 Street by Matthew J. Hellscream (ISBN 9781496049186) Okay,
Hello, GoH peeps! Dustin here with another edition of Recent Reads coming your way. I’ve got a bit of variety here for you with these three books that I’ve covered. Rest assured, that they have their own distinct flavor to them but they all have some bite. Unbortion by Rowland Bercy, Jr. I miss reading more schlocky
What is up, my reading friends in the GoH community? Gosh, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? Oh, well, you know how it is. You never know where the ennui of your life will take you sometimes. For me, it took me on a long journey where I thought, “Am I going to be a
Kristin Dearborn’s 2024 novel Faith of Dawn is an unpredictable roller coaster that mixes crime drama with science fiction and fantasy elements and a good dose of horror to give us something we’ve never seen before and never knew we needed: a Bigfoot thriller destined to become a cult classic. Faith of Dawn comes with
Death Ward 13 is a 2023 horror thriller novel, written by horror author/director Todd Nunes. The book is a novelization of Todd’s upcoming film of the same name, currently in preproduction. Four rookie nursing students are arched with supervising the last remnants of the inmates housed within Stephens Sanitarium for the Criminally Insane. They’ve only
If you’ve never read any of Grady Hendrix’s other books, you might find Horrorstor’s mash-up of comedy and horror slightly disconcerting. It blends the main character’s bleak and oftentimes sardonic sense of humor with a rising feeling of unease and paranoia. Throw in a few bizarre Swedish-themed torture devices and you’ve got a hell of
Adam Nevill’s Last Days came highly recommended by fellow horror aficionados, so it was an obvious choice for my first horror review. Nevill’s other works are, perhaps, more well-known, but Last Days has a bit of a cult following (pardon the pun) and promises an unsettling and dizzying experience that will stick with readers long
Todd Keisling was born and raised in a small town in rural Kentucky; those of you who’ve read Devil’s Creek were treated to a dark mirror image of the town in which Keisling first started to realize his true artistic power. Cutting his teeth on the fiction of R. L. Stine and John Bellairs, Todd