The Orange Eats Creeps
The Orange Eats Creeps is that magnificent kind of spooky book that takes an archetypal story and monster and turns it on its head to make something new and even scarier
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Horror Stories Double Feature
It’s a double feature! Make Sure You’re Around After You’ve Gone, which is a collection of ghost stories, and Through the Night Like a Snake, which is a collection of horror stories specifically from Latin America.
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
Spooky Season is Here at Last October is finally here and I have a whole bunch of spooky books saved up just for the occasion. I’m excited to start bringing out the holiday content and diving into it. However, this year with the amount of things we have packed into the month, I can admit […]
My Men
My Men follows the life of Brynhild Storset who emigrates form Norway to the United States and eventually becomes Belle Gunness, arguably the first serial killer in American history.
Paradise Rot
What follows is a fever dream of decay and the juxtaposition of awakening and discovering blurred boundaries between individuals, bodies, sexuality, and plant life.
The Fate of Mary Rose
I first encountered her writing in McNally’s re-issue of The Stepdaughter, and I loved how Blackwood could pack so many layers into such a short novel. So I was excited to try another of her books..
A Dark Corner and A Helping Hand
Both A Helping Hand and A Dark Corner are well under two hundred pages, but each of them packs a disturbing punch and were well ahead of their time.
Thus Were Their Faces
This book is a selection of work spanning multiple decades, and particularly has a focus on showcasing Ocampo’s tendency to be both insightful and at the same time grotesque, haunting, and fantastic.
Compulsory Games
It’s not the usual gothic fare, but instead is a bit more subtle in its spookiness. However, there is a spooky graveyard and a few scary desolate locations.
Killing Stella
Domestic horror is a sub-genre that allows for so many subtleties and so many facets of the disturbing.