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October 5, 2025October 5, 2025

Book Review — You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

Arielle Lewis Studios Genre: Horror, Queer Published by: S&S/Saga Press Publish date: September 9, 2025 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://andrewjosephwhite.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia. Festering masses …

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September 30, 2025

Book Review — Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski

Genre: Non-fiction, Essays, Memoir Published by: Harper Perennial Publish date: October 7, 2025 Number of pages: 240 pages Author’s website: https://zefyrlisowski.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A sharply personal and expansive essay collection dedicated to the strange and absurd beauty of horror films, exploring the complications of gender, the insidiousness of class ascension, and the …

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September 24, 2025

Book Review — The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

Photo credit: Sara Nicole Lemon Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Queer Fiction Published by: Harper Voyager Publish date: September 9, 2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://kosokojackson.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A picture is worth a thousand nightmares. A struggling painter, Lewis Dixon is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in …

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September 23, 2025

Book Review — Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature by Becky Siegel Spratford

ALA Store Genre: Anthology, Essays, Non-Fiction, Biography/Memoir Published by: S&S/Saga Press Publish date: September 23, 2025 Number of pages: 272 pages Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A captivating anthology and heartfelt tribute to the horror genre featuring essays from several of the most celebrated contemporary horror writers including, Grady Hendrix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham …

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September 20, 2025

Book Review — The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala

Genre: YA, Queer Horror Published by: PUSH Publish date: September 16, 2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://www.ryanlasala.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Two Days Before Ollie Veltman is finally coming home to the quaint island of Anchor’s Mercy after a year away while his mom battled cancer. It should be a celebration …

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March 17, 2025

Book Review — The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction Published by: Saga Press Publish date: Mar 18, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: https://www.demontheory.net/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the …

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January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

Book Review — The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington

https://www.joellewellington.com/ Genre: LGBTQIAP+ | Mystery & Thrillers | Teens & YA Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Publish date: July 30, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://www.joellewellington.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adult thriller …

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October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Book Recs for Final Girls

What is a Final Girl? The term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987) and expanded upon in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A final girl in cinema is a woman or girl who …

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June 30, 2024

Book Review — I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

Alina Art, https://www.demontheory.net/bio/ Genre: Horror, Thriller Published by: S&S/Saga Press Publish date: July 16, 2024 Number of pages: 384 pages Author’s website: https://www.demontheory.net/ Support local! Pre-order the book on BookShop! 1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, …

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June 9, 2024

Book Review — Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

https://www.paultremblay.net/ Genre: Horror Published by: William Morrow Publish date: June 11, 2024 Number of pages: 288 pages Author’s website: https://www.paultremblay.net/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever …

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