[Book Review]: Catriona Ward’s Little Eve Reading Catriona Ward is always a richly Gothic, intimate experience. You can’t quite trust the walls around you, but neither can you resist the pull. Little Eve, her latest to hit the US, is no exception. Within its pages is the kind of depth…

Twisting the classics into new life No one weaves an atmosphere quite like Silvia Moreno-Garcia. At once lavish and dark, her ability to paint the dark underbelly of romance is spellbinding. …

When history won’t stay silent. I have, admittedly, not read as much true crime as I’ve watched. I tend to take great care in choosing the things I read and for whatever reason, true crime books feel much more intimate than other forms of media to an almost intimidating degree…

Home is where love flows. Sarah Gailey can twist your mind. …

Think you know the real story of horror’s most treasured monsters? Independent publishers are some of horror fiction’s greatest lifeblood, offering platform to stories you would be hard-pressed to find in the common sphere and space to those voices who scream to be heard in a world that often seeks…

Wanna get haunted? Nobody does gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, stomach-turning storytelling quite like Clay McLeod Chapman. A heartwarmingly affable man with a mind of untold depths is perhaps the best balance to strike in the creative world, and fortunately Chapman is both in spades. …

The House of Usher, Repossessed There’s no one quite like Poe. Haunted as he was in life, it’s no surprise he was so adept at tapping directly into fears in his work, no matter how dark and unusual they were. From fear of the elderly to tales of revenge to…

How far would you go to move on from your past? We’re all patchworks of our past carrying through to the present and trying to carve out better futures, but how much time do you find yourself spending reminiscing and comparing the past? What would you give to be able…

A look into how our brains experience fear, and why we keep going back to it. There’s such an interesting tension between horror and non-horror fans when it comes to understanding and embracing fear. I both did and did not grow up fully a fan until I was a teenager…