Book Review: The Skin Room Title: The Skin Room Author: Carl Bluesy Link: Release Date: 5/5/2026 Summary Kenneth had it all: a life of luxury, fancy cars, rotating women. Now he has lost everything. At first, he only wanted his home back, but that all changed when he connected with his community. Now he wants to make sure everyone can live without fear of the madman hiding in the shadows.

Book Review: The Skin Room

Title: The Skin Room Author: Carl Bluesy Link: Release Date: 5/5/2026 Summary Kenneth had it all: a life of luxury, fancy cars, rotating women. Now he has lost everything. At first, he only wanted his home back, but that all changed when he connected with his community.…

Book Review: Marla Title: Marla Author: Jonathan Janz Link: Release Date: August 18th, 2026 Summary From beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, Marla is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can’t forget. Turn the page—if you dare. In King’s Branch, Indiana, everyone knows the Gorman House. Everyone whispers about the girl in the upstairs window.

Book Review: Marla

Title: Marla Author: Jonathan Janz Link: Release Date: August 18th, 2026 Summary From beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, Marla is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can’t forget.…

Book Review: Pumpkin Seeds Title: Pumpkin Seeds Author: Tyler Downs Link: Summary Edward Crane is a private detective who died eleven years ago. But once a year, with the help of his loyal sidekick Sam, Ed’s rotting corpse is reanimated for the last week of October to solve his town’s most devious cases before returning to the grave. As the pair navigate the supernatural underbelly of Salem in pursuit of a dark entity with a growing body count, Ed and Sam are forced to rely on the haunting visions of a body-swapping ghost for clues to help set things right.

Book Review: Pumpkin Seeds

Title: Pumpkin Seeds Author: Tyler Downs Link: Summary Edward Crane is a private detective who died eleven years ago. But once a year, with the help of his loyal sidekick Sam, Ed’s rotting corpse is reanimated for the last week of October to solve his town’s most devious…

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Book Review: Made of Him: A Kind of Hunger Title: Made of Him: A Kind of Hunger Author: C.B. Lannister Link: Summary After a violent assault shatters her sense of reality, college freshman Mara Winslow becomes obsessed with uncovering who’s watching her, and why. Her memories twist. Her suspicions sharpen. And the more she searches for answers, the more her grip on truth begins to slip. Drawn to the quiet intensity of her literature professor, Dr.

Book Review: Made of Him: A Kind of Hunger

Title: Made of Him: A Kind of Hunger Author: C.B. Lannister Link: Summary After a violent assault shatters her sense of reality, college freshman Mara Winslow becomes obsessed with uncovering who’s watching her, and why. Her memories twist. Her suspicions…

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Book Review: Ride the Spiral Title: Ride the Spiral Author: Ben Young Release Date: May 26, 2026 Link: Summary A mind-bending psychological horror thriller exploring the terrifying cost of unconditional love. To save his son, he must leave reality behind. It's been 32 years since a massive dimensional rift opened in the sky, and in that time The Ripped Sky Event has been largely covered up and denied.

Book Review: Ride the Spiral

Title: Ride the Spiral Author: Ben Young Release Date: May 26, 2026 Link: Summary A mind-bending psychological horror thriller exploring the terrifying cost of unconditional love. To save his son, he must leave reality behind. It's been 32 years since a massive…

Book Review: Straitjackets and Roses Title: Straitjackets and Roses Author: Vivian VanDam Link: Summary Virelle has never seen color—until Miles.Now he’s all she can see.What begins as fascination twists into something deeper, darker… necessary. As Miles unravels from his abusive relationship, Virelle becomes his only sense of clarity, his only escape. But love was never part of the equation.Only need. Only possession.

Book Review: Straitjackets and Roses

Title: Straitjackets and Roses Author: Vivian VanDam Link: Summary Virelle has never seen color—until Miles.Now he’s all she can see.What begins as fascination twists into something deeper, darker… necessary. As Miles unravels from his abusive relationship,…

Book Review: The Island Mother Title: The Island Mother Author: Jon Cohn Link: Summary Midsommar meets White Lotus in this supernatural thriller centered around an emotionally codependent woman on the run from her own life. She finds paradise, but it may come at a cost that she's unable to pay... Leigh Ramos - a woman on the run from her ex-boyfriend and the dangerous life she left behind - is starting over in Hawaii with a new name and hopes to leave her past behind her.

Book Review: The Island Mother

Title: The Island Mother Author: Jon Cohn Link: Summary Midsommar meets White Lotus in this supernatural thriller centered around an emotionally codependent woman on the run from her own life. She finds paradise, but it may come at a cost that she's unable to pay...…

Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl Title: Dungeon Crawler Carl Author: Matt Dinniman Link: Summary The apocalypse will be televised! You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show.

Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl

Title: Dungeon Crawler Carl Author: Matt Dinniman Link: Summary The apocalypse will be televised! You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the…

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Book Review: Marked: Tales of S.T.A.N.G.E. Title: Marked : Tales of S.T.A.N.G.E Author: K.L. Patrick Link: Release Date: March 26th, 2026 Summary A darkness moves around us, a world asking to enter the other side. People inspired by the entities that lie beyond the stars, and even our dimension. To fight the dark comes a light. S.T.A.N.G.E. is the only thing keeping our world safe, but it comes at a cost.

Book Review: Marked: Tales of S.T.A.N.G.E.

Title: Marked : Tales of S.T.A.N.G.E Author: K.L. Patrick Link: Release Date: March 26th, 2026 Summary A darkness moves around us, a world asking to enter the other side. People inspired by the entities that lie beyond the stars, and even our dimension.…

Book Review: I Can Be Your Friend Title: I Can Be Your Friend Author: Jessica Blade Link: Summary Welcome to Bliss High, rated one of the top schools in the nation for its high test scores and outstanding academic reputation. It's also the perfect place to commit murder. Natalie knows. She knows sweet, oblivious Mandy, is meant to be hers. Lifelong friends. Forever. And Natalie won't let anyone stand in the way.

Book Review: I Can Be Your Friend

Title: I Can Be Your Friend Author: Jessica Blade Link: Summary Welcome to Bliss High, rated one of the top schools in the nation for its high test scores and outstanding academic reputation. It's also the perfect place to commit murder. Natalie knows. She knows…

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Book Review: Puzzle House 2 Title: Puzzle House 2: The Summoners Author: Duncan Ralston Link: Summary Los Angeles is on fire. Society is collapsing. And Henry Hall is on the run. After barely surviving the horrors of Puzzle House, Henry emerges into a city under martial law, consumed by carnage, madness and fear. Ancient entities summoned by the dark rituals performed at Puzzle House are twisting reality to their will, and in the chaos left behind, human monsters run rampant.

Book Review: Puzzle House 2

Title: Puzzle House 2: The Summoners Author: Duncan Ralston Link: Summary Los Angeles is on fire. Society is collapsing. And Henry Hall is on the run. After barely surviving the horrors of Puzzle House, Henry emerges into a city under martial law, consumed by carnage,…

Book Review: We Were Never Really Friends Title: We Were Never Really Friends Author: Timothy King Releases: May 12, 2026 Link: Summary A gripping horror survival thriller of isolation and revenge, from bestseller Timothy King. Trapped on an island. Nowhere to hide. The hunt has begun. For Roger, Jerome, Ryan, and Chris, a trip to a private island mansion off the coast of Louisiana was supposed to be a grand reunion.

Book Review: We Were Never Really Friends

Title: We Were Never Really Friends Author: Timothy King Releases: May 12, 2026 Link: Summary A gripping horror survival thriller of isolation and revenge, from bestseller Timothy King. Trapped on an island. Nowhere to hide. The hunt has begun. For Roger,…

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“Wow, big guys”

“Escapability?”

“Why are there special teams?”

“He’s so little” (the kicker)

“Omg is he okay?”

Book Review: The Reformatory Title: The Reformatory Author: Tananarive Due Link: Summary Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.

Book Review: The Reformatory

Title: The Reformatory Author: Tananarive Due Link: Summary Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of…

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Book Review: Fifteen Eyes Title: Fifteen Eyes Author: Tyler Downs Link: Summary Solomon Northcutt enjoys the simple things in life: a nice sweater vest, trivia night with co-workers, and using the eyeballs of the deceased to transcribe horrific deaths for his bosses' reading pleasure. Tag along with our happy-go-lucky tour guide, Solomon, as he cracks open a fresh batch of 15 sordid tales. There’ll be all sorts of fun stuff inside…

Book Review: Fifteen Eyes

Title: Fifteen Eyes Author: Tyler Downs Link: Summary Solomon Northcutt enjoys the simple things in life: a nice sweater vest, trivia night with co-workers, and using the eyeballs of the deceased to transcribe horrific deaths for his bosses' reading pleasure. Tag along…

Book Review: I Know A Place Title: I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours Author: Nat Cassidy Release Date: May 5th, 2026 Link: Summary The first collection from USA Today bestselling author Nat Cassidy, featuring his unique blend of gleefully terrifying short fiction. "[A] platter of phobias... Luckily, for every scare, there is a sense of resilience and a laugh in the face of fear to get you there." —

Book Review: I Know A Place

Title: I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours Author: Nat Cassidy Release Date: May 5th, 2026 Link: Summary The first collection from USA Today bestselling author Nat Cassidy, featuring his unique blend of gleefully terrifying short fiction. "[A] platter of…

Book Review: Molka Title: Molka Author: Monika Kim Release Date: April 30th, 2026 Link: Summary From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original,” a provocative journey into a perilous world of voyeurism, scandal, female rage, and vengeance . . . pursued with a very sharp kitchen knife.

Book Review: Molka

Title: Molka Author: Monika Kim Release Date: April 30th, 2026 Link: Summary From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original,” a provocative journey into a perilous world of…

Book Review: Headlights Title: Headlights Author: CJ Leede Link: Release Date: June 9, 2026 Summary Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: …

Book Review: Headlights

Title: Headlights Author: CJ Leede Link: Release Date: June 9, 2026 Summary Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before…

Book Review: Shy Girl Title: Shy Girl Author: Mia Ballard Narrator: Ebony Jonelle Release Date: April 7th, 2026 Link: Summary "Brutal, uncomfortable, and visceral." —Brandon Baker, author of Whatever Remains of Us In the End "Deeply unsettling. The perfect book for horror readers." —Sadie Hartmann, author and co-owner of Night Worms "Feral, disgusting, and absolutely unhinged. I couldn't look away." —Ally Wilkes, author of…

Book Review: Shy Girl

Title: Shy Girl Author: Mia Ballard Narrator: Ebony Jonelle Release Date: April 7th, 2026 Link: Summary "Brutal, uncomfortable, and visceral." —Brandon Baker, author of Whatever Remains of Us In the End "Deeply unsettling. The perfect book for horror readers." —Sadie…

Book Review: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Title: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Author: Kylie Lee Baker Link: Summary "A compelling, gory, ghostly romp."—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie "This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts."—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of…

Book Review: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Title: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Author: Kylie Lee Baker Link: Summary "A compelling, gory, ghostly romp."—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie "This is what it felt like to live in New York City during…

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