I received my author copies of What Lies Unseen today! Now you can order signed copies of What Lies Unseen, as well as The Vessel and Hauntings directly from my online store. I'll ship 'em for free (U.S. only - sorry!) and include bookmarks and other swag to say thanks for your order! Check out my storefront today!

As March is Women in Horror Month, I figured it a great time to check out the anthology "Moods and Megrims," featuring stories by a group of fantastic indie women authors. What is a megrim, you might ask? Turns out, it has several meanings. The Oxford English Dictionary offers the following definitions: depression; low spirits. a whim or fancy. old-fashioned term for migraine. No matter how you define it, however, "Moods and Megrims: A Collection of Hysterical Women" is a won

The Skeleton Theory by Joe Clifford introduces readers to Jericho Keane, or "Echo" as he prefers, a troubled police detective whose career is circling the proverbial drain, and whose daughter, Olivia, was recently murdered by a serial killer Keane himself had been charged with investigating. His wife has left him, and he lives in a converted cargo trailer in a seedy part of town. He struggles with grief, anger, remorse, and unrelenting guilt. Then one day, a friend convinces

I'm not going to lie. The idea of nuclear test towns in the middle of the American west, where families of mannequins dressed in 1950s-era apparel, hanging out and doing 1950s-era middle-class suburban things, have always creeped me out. And that's even before the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, which oh-so-perfectly captured the liminal, uncanny dread those sites seem to so perfectly incapsulate. So when I snagged a copy of Test Town, Leigh Kenny's short but horror-pack

I just watched the first episode of "Scarpetta," a new series on Amazon Prime starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, and based off the Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Medical Examiner novels by Patricia Cornwell. The series ties in with "Postmortem," the first book in Cornwell's series, which was published in 1990. I remember reading the book back when I was in college (and loved it) and immediately picked up on the source material while I was watching. The series' inaugural episode

Happy book birthday to "What Lies Unseen." It's available NOW in print and ebook from Wicked House. Sam Avery sees things no one else can, gruesome spirits that have haunted him since childhood. He believes he is alone in this terrifying ability, until he meets Amanda Foster, who can hear the voices of the dead. Amanda tells Sam there are even more like them, a group she calls her spirit circle. At first, Sam eagerly accepts the invitation to join this circle but slowly begin

Monsters and madmen prowl the streets of Victorian London in "A Fragile Thing," the new release from author Stephanie Ellis, and the line separating one from the other is often quite thin and easily broken. In "A Fragile Thing," Isaac Bercow's life is a con. While he presents himself as a physician, in truth, he's a fraud, all of his "credentials" and "diplomas" forgeries and fakes. He makes his living as a mesmerist, performing in seedy sideshows that operate in the poorer

In No One Was Ever Really in This Place by author Mike Salt (coming August 4 from Wicked House), when chronically depressed Felix wakes to find himself alone in the city he calls home, it isn't much of a change. After all, he's always felt isolated and alone, even when surrounded by other people. There's no one Felix feels close to or intimate with, whether physically or emotionally. His only real points of connection in the world are with his dog, Ninja, and a young woman a

I've been wanting to read "Crulus" by author Llrâc Nôdbé (pronounced "Lark Nod-bee") for a long time. I've seen nothing but good reviews from other readers, and I mean, come on, look at that phenomenal cover by Wendy Saber-Core. I had pretty high expectations going into it, which usually means I'm setting myself up for disappointment. I am pleased to report that was not the case with "Crulus." In "Crulus," young Dylan Wolfendale lives in the hamlet of Newport, South Wales. Hi

In the new limited series "56 Days" on Amazon Prime Video, Dove Cameron wants you to know she's all grown up. That's right. In case you missed her sultry 2022 pop hit "Boyfriend," in which the one-time Disney diva croons, "I could be a better boyfriend than him / Up all night, I won't quit," she signed aboard this made-for-the-Zon sex thriller that feels like it's straight out of Sharon Stone's 1990s film roster. It's based on a book of the same title by Catherine Ryan Howard

Things are not always what they seem. That's a central theme in William F. Gray's new release, "It Sleeps Below," and it's a lesson the book's main character, Samantha, learns the hard way more than once. The story opens with Sam receiving a strange phone call from her girlfriend, Ellie, in which something seems off. Ellie doesn't sound like herself, and when Sam learns she killed herself in a car crash before the call even came through, she begins to suspect that it hadn't r

They should make a movie out of Slashtag by Jon Cohn. Seriously, instead of rehashing yet another installment in the tired Scream franchise, or unnecessarily remaking yet another Stephen King story that already had a perfectly good film adaptation (looking at you, Mike Flanagan's version of The Mist ), Hollywood could be mining the imaginative and definitely screen-worthy trove that is Cohn's Slashtag . It's a fun, fast-paced mix of Ready or Not meets House on Haunted Hill m

In her new short story collection You Are The Thing That Scares in The Woods, Desiree Horton brings together new and previously published stories to delight and terrify readers. The volume includes "The Station Master" and "Wicked Hands" (both of which I've previously reviewed) and numerous shorter works showcasing Horton's skills as a writer, and her gift for crafting dark, atmospheric horror. Besides the aforementioned "Station Master" and "Wicked Hands," here are my person

The Pestilent Perils series is comprised of two very different, but delightfully horrific short stories by M.J. Mars. "Rat" is set in the Victorian Era, and centers around the crew of a clipper ship, the Cormorant, that encounters an abandoned prison vessel bound from England to Australia. The larger ship, the Tulketh Swain, appears completely empty upon inspection, but the Cormorant's kindhearted cabin boy begins to suspect that isn't the case. A dark presence seems to hav

Available NOW! Happy book birthday to Hags and Witches , the fifth installment in KJK Publishing's Classic Monsters anthology series, which includes my short story "There's Always A Catch." Seventeen-year-old Hannah is on the brink of aging out of the foster care system. A troubled young woman with a history of behavior problems that have seen her in and out of foster homes over the years, she faces bleak prospects for her future, and not much worth caring about in the presen

Based on real-life events, The Blurry Man by Jenny Toupin centers around Anthony Morozov , a bright but odd and reclusive young man. He foregoes a budding career as a college instructor and instead begins cataloging headstones at the local cemetery as part of a project for the local newspaper. It is here one day that he finds Holly, a traumatized little girl hiding in one of the old crypts. Rather than deliver her to the police, Anthony instead brings the girl home. He decide

The release date for What Lies Unseen has been moved from March 10 to March 17. Thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered a copy so far! If you haven't yet, you still have time, so be sure to reserve your copy of the book author Jeff Clulow calls "a dark, mesmeric story about the secrets we keep and the evils we hide away," and Desiree Horton calls "a phenomenal ghost story!" Pre-order What Lies Unseen here .

Author Viggy Parr Hampton's latest release, A Veritable Household Pet, is a tale of two sisters. The eldest, Ellie, is a socially awkward and lonely girl who eventually becomes an ambitious and driven surgeon. The youngest, Darla, suffers from debilitating neuroses in her youth which lead her parents, in their desperation to "cure" her, to subject her to an "ice-pick" lobotomy when she is 12 years old. In doing so, the family trades one set of problems with Darla for another,

"Wicked Hands," the latest release from author Desiree Horton, may be short in length, but it still packs a hell of a punch. In it, a young woman named Fidelina has the ability to resurrect the dead with her touch. This seems more curse than gift to her, as those she brings back to life are irrevocably changed, becoming savage, violent versions of the people they once were. She fears and hates her power, until she discovers that her touch can also absolve the crushing holds o

Just watched "Birth/Rebirth" on Hulu. It's a quiet, somber, dark reimagining of the Frankenstein tale, told through a woman's lens. Marin Ireland plays Dr. Rose Casper, an emotionally detached but clinically brilliant pathologist who has discovered the secret for reanimating the dead. After successfully resurrecting a potbelly pig, for her next subject, she chooses Lili, a five-year-old girl who dies of bacterial meningitis. She doesn't count on Lili's mother Celie Morales, p