Secret Horror

Just imagine if the reclusive and enigmatic film auteur Stanley Kubrick lived in an isolated mansion and has moved his entire film production and staff into this hidden enclave. It is there, away from the prying eyes of...

“The Whisper Man” by Alex North is a fast paced crime drama that at its core is about the relationships between fathers and sons and the terrible implications and legacy when that relationship is abused or broken. Here...

One of the best female detectives I have read in a while in “May The Wolf Die.” Elizabeth Heider writes one of the best female detectives I have read in a while in her book, “May The Wolf Die.” Nikki is badass and...

If you like eerie dream-like stories that make you wonder if you should be frightened or enchanted? Then Josh Malerman’s “A house at the bottom of the lake” is a book you should dive into. Here is our review and essay...

“The Decagon House Murders” is a Japanese mystery novel from 1987 by Yukito Ayatsuji. It's a classic “trapped in a room” mystery often compared to Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None”. This book kicked off the...

Andrei Codrescu performs Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee #horror #booktok #horrortok #poetry #poe Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the...

This is a simple questionnaire from Sara Gran’s book, “Come Closer”. So, are you possessed? Write in the comments your score and if you need an exorcism? Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers...

Let us return to hell. “The Divine Farce,” by Michael S.A. Graziano is an excellent companion piece to another “trapped in hell” novella called “A Short Stay in Hell,” by Steven L. Peck. Both short books. Both set in a...

I love haunted house stories like Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” where the house becomes a character: creepy and spooky. Or Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” where the castle embodies the terror and decay of the...

What else can be said about Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning post-apocalyptic novel, “The Road,” that has not already been said? Here is my take on this masterpiece which uses sparse but profoundly beautiful...

“Come Closer” by Sara Gran, written in 2003, is an unexpected night plunge into insanity and schizophrenia. Or a post 9/11 rebellion against the mundane normality we fall into in our daily lives. Or could it be worse –...

“Never Let Me Go,” is from a true master – Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel laureate who says that he won the prize because he knows how to make people cry. And this book excels at it, as it “ guides,” and I use this word...

P. Djèlí Clarks’ “Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times,” is a spectacular journey structured like an action movie, and moves like one too. It’s even got an excellent villain named Butcher Clyde. There is...

Published in 1988, “Running Wild” is J. G. Ballard’s dystopian take on the excess and malaise of the 80s. Living through Margaret Thatcher’s United Kingdom where the insatiable urge to accumulate money at any cost...

Set in the pre-NAFTA 1990s Mexico City, we have a Lovecraftian supernatural thriller – “ Silver Nitrate ” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The author captures the grungy unspoiled Mexico City before NAFTA, while reflecting on a...