Anna is a bright writer with a future full of infinite possibility. Then one night she stabs two people to death in her sleep and never wakes up. Ben is a forensic psychologist with an expertise in sleep related homicides, who years after the murder is tasked with waking Sleeping Beauty to get to the truth. Ironic that a book where sleep plays a pivotal role made sleep a tad difficult!
Read MoreDead Eleven - Jimmy Juliano
You Like It Darker - Stephen King
Heads Will Roll - Josh Winning
William - Mason Coile
Family Business - Jonathan Sims
Incidents Around The House - Josh Malerman
Sleep Tight - J.H.Markert.
Good Dogs - Brian Asman
Ghost Station - S.A. Barnes
Middle Of The Night - Riley Sager
Graveyard Shift - R.L.Rio
Such Lovely Skin - Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Devils Kill Devils - Johnny Compton
The Night Guest - Hildur Knutsdottir
Don’t Eat The Pie - Monique Asher
The Eleven - Kyle Rutkin
Craft: Stories I Wrote For The Devil - Ananda Lima
The Queen - Nick Cutter
Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay
We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Girl - Blake Nelson
Space Opera - Catherine Valente
Signal To Noise - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Songs In Ursa Major - Emma Brodie
More Than Maybe - Erica Hahn
Fever House - Keith Rosson
The Farewell Tour - Stephanie Clifford
The Vinyl Underground - Rob Rufus
This Song Will Save Your Life - Leila Sales
The Music Shop - Rachel Joyce
A Song For A New Day - Sarah Pinsker
Guitar Notes - Mary Amato
Spin - Colleen Nelson
Impossible Music - Sean Williams
How to Kill A Rock Star - Tiffanie DeBartolo
Bootleg Stardust - Glenn Dixon
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm - Laura Warrell
Titanium Noir - Nick Harkaway
The Ascent - Adam Plantinga
The Road To Heaven - Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
Shifty’s Boys - Chris Offut
Someone To Watch Over Me - Dan Bronson
Twice The Trouble - Ash Clifton
The Rope Artist - Fuminori Nakamura
All The Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
Hurricane Blonde - Hailey Sutton
Three Assassins - Kotaro Isaka
Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll
City On Fire - Don Winslow
Drive A - Merritt Graves
Head Full Of Lies - Jordan Farmer
Girl In The Eagle’s Talons - Karin Smirnoff
The Confession - Charlotte Bigland
Scorched Grace - Margot Douaihy
A Little Blood And Dancing - Tyler Parker
All Souls Lost - Dan Moren
An ingenious and suffocating thriller that plunges you into the story with the first sentence and is bound to keep you up past your bedtime in the race to get to the last one. There was someone in the house. We open with a woman standing immobilized by fear, in the shadows that exist between her, the intruder who has invaded her home, and her children. She told them that monsters didn’t exist. She lied.
Read MoreIf you can’t stomach a thoroughly unlikable narrator with a dark psyche, move along fair reader. Claire is a part time serial killer intent on keeping her “hobby” secret, despite the efforts of a blackmailer with hideous taste in fashion who is smarter than she looks. But here’s the thing, is it wise to tangle with a serial killer? Despite them seemingly not fully committed to full time devotion to their craft. Probably not.
Read MoreWhen it comes to the dark Fu*ckery of the human heart, there are no limits.” Stephen King
Horror fiction, at its finest, feeds whatever crazed deviance you are exploring, or depraved hunger you are attempting to satiate. And those of us brave enough have an invitation to vicariously experience all our worst possible nightmares on those pages. In my latest feature I’ve got all the angles covered. So follow me…if you dare!
Read MoreThis delightful compendium of books and other fun facts on horror fiction is a must! But know this, a steady diet of horror can ruin you for other genres. You will be reading another style of book and find yourself wondering, when does the blood start flowing, when do the monsters come out to play with us. You have been warned.
Read MoreRyan has been reliving the same night in excruciating detail for more than five years. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the car. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream. Waking up with no trace of Ali to be found and only a vague description of the attacker. Is it any wonder he ends up the prime suspect?
Read MoreAfter their mother dies, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. While going through decades of their parent’s belongings, they stumble upon a collection of home videos (note that cover!) that reveal a dark family secret. A light, fun and engaging read that might have you rushing to the attic of your childhood home to unearth your own family’s long buried secrets!
Read MoreOraya is the adopted human daughter of the Nightborn Vampire King, and he has chosen her to participate in a once in a century tribute. Vampires from across the kingdoms compete, the most powerful warriors from all three houses, engage in a savage tournament of five trails that will finish with only one winner left standing at the end of this deadly pursuit. The author triumphantly escape all the tropes of this style of fantasy, a wonder beyond the book itself!
Read MoreIn a future where advanced technology can create a sperm or egg from any person’s cell’s, the rich and famous face the alarming potential of having their DNA stolen and sold to the highest bidder. Famous rock star Thorne hires Ember to become his Bio security guard, cleaning up all biological evidence from any place he has been. When they are confronted by Quinn, a heavily pregnant woman claiming he is her baby daddy, they are stunned. This can’t be happening. A speculative fiction that is utterly plausible!
Read MoreFrances has spent her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder, only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country home. Leaving behind cryptic clues and meticulous instructions for her potential heirs; if they want to inherit her fortune they must solve the mystery of her murder. And reader, what rabid and greedy heirs they might be! A fun romp perfect for summer reading.
Read MoreCarnivale Of Curioustites - Aimee Gibbs
Spitting Gold - Carmella Lokis
Joyland - Stephen King
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Circus Of Wonders - Elizabeth MacNeal
Wonder Show - Hannah Barnaby
The Hidden Life Of Cecily Larson - Ellen Baker
Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold
Caraval - Stephanie Garber
First Bright Thing - J.R. Dawson
Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter
Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
Magic - William Goldman
Bacchanal - Veronica G Henry
Circus Train - Amita Parikh
The Magicians Lie - Greer Macallister
Cursed - Marissa Meyer
Fairytale - Stephen King
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
Malice - Heather Walter
The Death I Gave Him - Em X. Lui
These Violent Delights - Chole Chang
Book Of G - Lily Archer
Girls Made Of Snow & Glass - Melissa Bashardoust
The Wrath & The Dawn - Renee Ahdeih
Fair Rosaline - Natasha Solomon
Queen Hereafter - Isabell Schuler
Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow
All The Ever Afters - Danielle Teller
Frankenstein In Baghdad - Ahmed Saawdi
Herc - Phoenicia Rogerson
Julia - Sandra Newman
Cecily - Annie Garthwaite
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
A Short Walk Through A Wide World - Douglas Westerbeke
The Book Of Doors - Gareth Brown
The Drowning - TJ Newman
The Bullet Train - Kotaro Isaka
Cover Your Tracks - Daco Auffenorde
The Road To Roswell - Connie Willis
Mostly True Story Of Tanner & Louise - Colleen Oakley
A Thousand Miles To Graceland - Kristen Mei Chase
Cassandra In Reverse - Holly Smale
The Unmaking Of June Farrow - Adrienne Young
A Different Kind Of Evil - Andrew Wilson
Confessions On The 7:45 - Lisa Unger
He Started It - Samantha Downing
The Last One - Will Dean
The Passengers - John Marrs
Strangers On A Train - Patricia Highsmith
The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian
Mosquitoland - David Arnold
Whistly Past The Graveyard - Susan Crandall
People are hard-wired to seek answers, to fill in any blanks. So, it’s no surprise we are predisposed to extrapolate clues from our environment to solve puzzles, whether it’s to move, to advance, or even to survive. Every game we play requires thoughtful consideration, a series of choices and navigations that shapes the course of play. With all this in mind, is it any wonder game theory and culture has resulted in so many well plotted books? I think not. So, tap into your inner child, embrace your inherent nerdiness, spark those creative juices, and come play with me.
Read MoreI am ashamed to say that for a split second, I doubted that I would find myself captivated by this particular Stephen King book.. Shame. On. Me. A Stephen King novel with no supernatural element? Maybe later. But then the rave reviews were impossible to ignore and so here we are. If you thought Annie Wilkes was bonkers, you have no idea! Diabolical and depraved and so much fun. Full disclosure, I read this a while ago but I wanted to save the review for the launch of Summer Reading season. Make sure to check out the In The Margins page on Friday!
Read MoreMagical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical Overthinking, the author argues that in the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our heightened irrationality has caused our grasp on reality to slip. Our brains have always played tricks on us, often as a form of self-preservation. Those mental magic tricks can go horribly wrong when combined with too much access to data and too many point of view. This book offers cautionary tales to help us navigate.
Read MoreJust a mere orphaned peasant girl, Rin discovers she is to be traded off by her foster parents to a middle-aged husband in exchange for the promise of riches. Her only means of governing her own destiny is by taking a formidable exam that could potentially land her a free ride to a prestigious military school. When she gets in, her peers and teachers make it clear that Rin does not belong at there. In order to gain the power she requires, she will have to flirt with villainy. And maybe even embrace it.
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