Category: horror
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Book Review: The Honeys
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! The Honeys by Ryan La Sala is a 344-page Young Adult horror novel. Mars has always been the shadow to his twin sister Caroline’s radiance. However, when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars must learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who’d grown distant in the months leading up to her death. Mars’s genderfluidity means he’s often excluded from the traditions and expectations of his…
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Book Review: Bury Your Gays
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Bury Your Gays is a commentary on the Hollywood tendency to either not explicitly acknowledge a character is gay or to kill off the gay character. Misha Byrne is a screenwriter for a very popular TV show: The Travelers. When the executives want him to kill off the two female leads after revealing they’re in love instead of allowing them to have their happy ending, Misha…
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Book Review: What Moves the Dead
This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher is a 165-page gothic horror retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe. When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. Upon arrival, they find fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding…
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Book Review: Horrorstör
This post contains mild spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix is a 248-page horror novel. It is set in a knock-off Ikea store in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find furniture destroyed. Sales are down, the security cameras reveal nothing amiss, and the store managers are panicking. To solve the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour overnight shift. They patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sightings…