Horror is a fairly broad genre. Suspense and gore fall under its umbrella, the subtle and the explicit. Monsters both human and non-human, with and without motive, inhabit its works, and the architects of…
All good things must come to an end. It’s a cliché because it’s true, but less cliché is the truth that not all good things come to a good end. Fantasy buffs know all…
This is a difficult time of year. Not quite winter and not quite spring, there are few holidays to celebrate and precious little opportunity to adjust to Daylight Savings if you’re in the U.S.…
There are a lot of books you can wax effusive about by saying that you stayed up too late, that you missed your subway stop, or that you forgot to adhere to some other…
There’s horror—and then there’s horror. There’s gore and shock and dread and cosmic nothingness, all kinds of thrills and chills, all of them bounded between the beginning and end of a narrative and the…
I’m not trying to be tautological when I say that history is written by the writers, cute as it may sound. And I’m not talking about historians. I’m not even professional writers, whether of…
Road of Bones by veteran horror author Christopher Golden is a horror novel the way Resident Evil IV is a horror game. It's scary, and it's eerie, but in the end it's all about…
You want a masterclass in worldbuilding? Look no further. Kate Elliott hasn't been in the game for this long for nothing, and it's clear from this brief novella that she has only grown in…
There are still WAY too many good books coming out for this list to be comprehensive, so here's the second 1/3rd of my most anticipated books. The middle of the year is particularly bountiful…
2022 is going to have some incredible books, and I'm especially looking forward to certain series continuing on or wrapping up entirely. There are too many to cover in a single article, so this…