I picked up Ally Wilkes' novel, All The White Spaces, on the recommendation of a few author and bookseller mutuals on Twitter. It was a...

I discovered the Lovecraftian mythos when I was in my twenties, and it sucked me in right away. The cosmic horrors beyond the stars, the...

I watched The Ring in a friend's dorm room, my freshman year of college. As much as I'd nursed a love of middle-grade horror lit when I...

What's that? A callback to a previous post? Well, if you haven't read all of my blogs religiously, then kindly get your mind out of the...

Holiday romance isn't really my thing. I have nothing against Hallmark movies and books about a big-city girl coming home to her charming...

I've been a chronic book lover since before I could read. I have memories of astounding my parents with reading picture books, when I'd...

Last night, I was about two-thirds of the way into Erika T. Wurth's White Horse. I dabbed cleanser on my face and scrubbed at my makeup...

"Wanna get haunted?" Not high, they insist. Haunted. Clay McLeod Chapman's Ghost Eaters is a brilliant new take on the idea that there...

I was twenty pages into Stephen Graham Jones' The Only Good Indians when I was lurking around on the hellscape of Twitter, and someone...

It used to be that if a woman wanted to be published, she would have to submit under a male name. Writing, much like everything else, was...

Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters is, above all things, about mothers and daughters. The relationship between generations of...

In case it isn't blatantly obvious by now, I love horror literature. For me, it's an astonishingly mindful, happy place where my...

If I had to whittle down Jennifer Givhan's book River Woman, River Demon into a word, it would be "strength." Strength of self, strength...

It is incredibly difficult to make a living as an author of any kind. For most of them, writing isn't their sole source of income,...

I grew up on the West Coast of the United States, and as such, I learned about the Donner Party in grade school. In hindsight, it seems a...

Shaindel Beers is a phenomenal poet. She's also a friend of mine. We sing in community choir together, and she is aunt to my cats, Luna...

Aficionados of horror and mystery alike may be in a bit of a bind if they also suffer from any kind of trauma. Take me, for example. I...

Cassandra Khaw's novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth follows a group of five young adults to Japan for a private wedding ceremony in an...

If you're here, you're probably wondering something very specific: who am I, and why the hell should I listen to her talk about the books...