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'Cuckoo' Visualizes a Queer Cosmic Horror

Gretchen Felker-Martin

'Cuckoo' Visualizes a Queer Cosmic Horror

It’s curious, the childhood memories that burrow their way into your mind, so intact that you can recall stray bits of dialogue over twenty years later. “Yeah, my dad showed up after he heard I was having such an issue with my mom,” my friend said, backpack slung over

July Horror Round-Up

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July Horror Round-Up

No One is Safe! - Philip Fracassi (Lethe Press) *Pick of the Month* With all honesty, few books have been as engaging, frightening, or delightful as Philip Fracassi’s recent collection, No One is Safe. While the book is branded around a “pulp horror” aesthetic, it really follows a similar

June Horror Round-Up

June Horror Round-Up

Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin (Tor) *Pick of the Month* Gretchen Felker-Martin’s follow-up to her celebrated provocation, Man-Hunt, is a visceral, violent, and often upsetting title about queer kids dropped into the desert for a type of torturous conversion therapy. The book picks up on the 1990s-2000s phenomenon of prison

Portrait of a Jewish Family

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Portrait of a Jewish Family

Toby Lloyd's debut may be the best, and more heart wrenching, Jewish book this decade.

April Horror Round-Up

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April Horror Round-Up

Take a look at some of the best new horror books of 2024.

March Horror Round-Up

March Horror Round-Up

Fervour - Toby Lloyd (Hodder & Stoughton) - Pick of the Month Fervour is, like all the books on the list, only coded into horror by the accident of categories. This is how it ultimately made its way to me, one of the few “Jewish horror novels” for contemporary readers.

February Horror Round-Up

February Horror Round-Up

Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay (William Morrow) Tremblay has been on a roll the past couple of years, and yet this may be his high water mark for the decade. While I think Tremblay is best as a short story writer and his recent collection The Beast You Are contains

January Horror Round-Up

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January Horror Round-Up

As we head into 2024, we actually are continuing to pile through the best horror from 2023. Books are not the same as movies or music, it takes time to find, read, and consider a book, which means that you really can’t give a perfect “best of” list until

December Horror Round-Up

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December Horror Round-Up

They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces - Eric LaRocca (Bad Hand Books) *Pick of the Month* Not only has Eric LaRocca been the “pick of the month” before, he has been this year already. In what has been a stellar few years for LaRocca, his groundbreaking cosmic

Best Horror Books of 2023

Best Horror Books of 2023

A reading list of the absolute best horror books (and magazines and comics) that came out in 2023.

The Best Books of 2023

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The Best Books of 2023

Some of the best books of 2023, including non-fiction, novels, Jewish books, and more.