- Wretch – Jeremy Wagner 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...like reading a classic Greek epic through the lens of our action-packed, ultra-violent modern time... Thank you NetGalley & Dead Sky Publishing for the ARC full review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

-- Atalanta – Jennifer Saint 3.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Not a bad retelling of a somewhat lesser-known Greek mythology heroine. I appreciated the author’s relatively seamlessly weaving of all the variations of Atalanta into a single narrative... full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

After: An Anatomy of Fracture – @scarystarling.bsky.social 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Just… wow… Infused with the most beautiful and darkest of poetic imagery... A stunning novel of survival and hope. Highly recommended. But gird your heart. This one is merciless. full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A Slow and Secret Poison – Carmella Lowkis 3.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A bewitching novel with slow and languorous pacing that is beautifully written and rife with gothic tropes in all the best ways… full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Thank you to NetGalley & Atria Books for the ARC #booksky

An accumulation of #bookmail today!! One of these books is not like the others... 🤣 no judging... (we all have our vices, right?) #bookmailisthebestmail #scifibooks #horror #horrorbooks #supportindieauthors

Willow Rose – M. Kevin Hayden 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A scifi-folk-horror story of a doctor working in a small-town Minnesota hospital when a mysterious comet appears in the sky & a mysterious little girl appears... 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 #netgalley 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝑹𝑪 full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

The Night Ship - @alexwoodroe.com 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A unique end-of-the-world setting in 80s East Bloc Romania as the world literally disappears out from underneath their feet (and wheels!)... eerie and terrifying... full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

Dark Sisters - Kristi DeMeester 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A witchy, gothic tale of a centuries old curse full of fem rage, tooth-grinding oppression, & bloody retribution that is centuries in the making. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review Thank you to @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC #booksky

Porcelain Lullaby - Blaine Daigle 4.5/5⭐, rounded up 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...He handles horror with a finesse and refined elegance, hiding horror in beauty and stillness that creeps into your subconscious and takes root... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #bookrec #haunted

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙣 – 𝗖.𝗙. 𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 It was... utterly amazing... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review Releases January 20, 2026 Ebook preorders can be found on Amazon, and paperback preorders on www.trubornpress.com/shop #booksky #bookrec #weirdhorror

𝙃𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 - 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗻 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Folksy, mysterious, frustrating... Serviceable writing starts out promisingly but failed to engage me with the finale or the characters themselves, none of which seemed to have any great development... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for review #booksky

𝙏𝙤𝙮 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨 – 𝗗.𝗗. 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗱 3.5/5⭐, rounded up 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 An alt-history mashup of scifi, horror & 80s cold war thriller comes complete with rampaging monsters & gengineered soldiers battling over mankind’s entire existence... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 – MJ Graysmith 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 This post-apocalyptic novel of werewolves is a fast, adventurous read that has light horror elements and (mostly) great storytelling... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review thanks to #booksirens & the author for the ARC

#throwbackthursday to Flora the Library Bunny 🐰 💕 📚 #bunnythoughts #rabbitthoughts #rescuerabbit #houserabbit #housebunny #library #librarybunny #booksky

-- 𝙄𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡: 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝘽 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 - 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 4.5/5⭐ ...He’s blasé, charmingly self-deprecating, and nerdy-cool in all the ways I expected... It seems as though he really did find the sweet spot. Hail to the King, baby! www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿'𝘼𝙧𝙠 - 𝗠.𝗝. 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 The premise of this novel is ostensibly that of a spiritual horror, good vs evil & all that. But honestly? It just wasn’t that deep. ...an interesting concept that ultimately fell flat... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #BookSky #NetGalley

𝙈𝙮 𝙉𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙪𝙡 – @drewhuff.bsky.social 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...all manner of chaos erupts in what I’m starting to realize is ‘Drew Huff mayhem’ & I love going along for the ride... more than just body horror & cosmic insanity... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #netgalley #booksky

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙 - Adam Cosco 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 There’s a lot going on in this novel: AI, tech, faith, cults, grief, depression, su*c*de, guilt… The writing is so beautifully fluid and true that it’s almost breathtaking... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky

Zu doesn't care how windy it is (it's 40+ kph sustained) as long as she gets to dig dig #dig 😆 🐰 🐇 . . #dailyfluff #adoptdontshop #rescuerabbit #houserabbit #housebunny #rabbitlife #rabbit #freeroamrabbit #freerangerabbit #saskatchewan #windyweather #wind

𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙒𝙖𝙧 - 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗦.𝗔. 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘆 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A re-read and I still love this series. The action is still fresh, the settings imaginative and engaging. The dialogue is snappy and propulsive... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #theexpanse

#bookmail 😍 📚 #lonelymotel #duncanralston #ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision #qntm #SciFiBooks #horrorbooks #bookmailisthebestmail

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙖 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 - MJ Mars 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Another reason to keep me awake at night…! The premise of this is a uniquely terrifying one that I just hadn’t considered before. Now it’s in my head & I can’t shake it loose... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #boooksky #NetGalley

Halloweenish weather coming in... #stormyskies

Happy release day to my grief horror novelette, HEAT AND LABOR!

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 - 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A classic - deserving of its place in the psychological horror pantheon. This is a subtle haunting; subdued and quiet except for those rare moments when it’s not... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #gothic

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚: 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 - 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...the collection feels at once familiar and evocative... The writing is gorgeous and haunting, the pieces intriguing and provocative... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #netgalley #stelliformpress

Helloween - Duncan Ralston 4.5/5⭐, rounded up 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Such a blast to read! It did not disappoint. Brimming with action and nostalgia and a large cast of memorable characters this girthy novel is evocative of King classics visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky

-- 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 – @caitlinstarling.com 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Claustrophobic… panicked… anxious… A sinister, gripping medical horror that subtly edges in, just under the skin, and stays bone deep long after the last page. visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #netgalley #booksky

𝙇𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡: 15 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 (Anthology) 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Liminal space concept is explored with 15 short stories... Highlights: Whitmore’s ‘Greenhouse’, Daniels’ ‘Suburbs’ & ‘Playground’ & Waite’s excellent ‘Office’ visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky

𝙈𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙥𝙨, 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 – 𝗟. 𝗟. 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Ghosts, curses, serial killers, malevolent spirits & a very haunted town make for a supernatural horror novel full of secrets and surprises... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky thank you #NetGalley #CreaturePublishing

𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙮 - @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Perfect novella of creeping screaming cosmic horror & one of the scariest things I know: a small child… superfast 1 sitting read that confirms my lifelong belief that children are eldritch demons & I am always right to ignore them #booksky

𝘼𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙐𝙣𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 - 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻 2.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A pretty chaotic mild horror/dark academia that doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review Thank you #NetGalley and #StMartinsPress for the ARC #booksky

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗥. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗲 - @joerlansdale.bsky.social 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 This very fine collection of Lansdale's has nearly every flavour of horror in it... It’s bizarrely and satisfyingly undefinable... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #Netgalley #booksky

Good morning Zuzu!! 🌞 🐰 🐇 #rabbitlife

-- 𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙮𝙘𝙧𝙮 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 - Ben Young 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 As expected, Young manages to convey a lot in just a few pages... he does a fantastic job of creating dread and curiosity and a true emotional gut punch... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for review #booksky

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩 - 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Wow what a conflicted reading experience for me! An incredibly intriguing & much hyped premise (haunted film, meta-found-footage) falls flat after a solid first 3rd... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #NetGalley #StMartinsPress

𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙙 - 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘆 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Murderers, angels & demons! Oh My! We're not in Kansas but we are on a farm that Flips back & forth between a regular ole cornfield farm with livestock & such to a haunted, terrifying hell landscape... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review

Devil Of The Pines - James Kaine 4.5/5 ⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A fantastic creature-feature horror that explores the American Jersey Devil myth, this novel is fast paced, fun and creepy in all the right places... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review Thanks to #NetGalley for the ARC #booksky

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘼 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 - 𝗦𝘆𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗕𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 experimental & alluring design & language... lyrical & mournful… haunting and poignant tale... it has achieved its rightful place as a modern-day fable www.goodreads.com/review/show/... full review my thanks to #netgalley and #stelliformpress

𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 – Paul Avery Tindol 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 The vinyl revival makes a roaring, blood-soaked comeback! The violence is utterly gory and wickedly creative. I had an absolute blast... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review 𝑴𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒐 Paul 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝑹𝑪! #pressingmatters #booksky

𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬 - @bitterkarella.bsky.social 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Unapologetically hallucinatory and fabulously weird, I had an absolute blast reading this trippy, wild story. I'd go back to this crazy fungal forest in a heartbeat... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #moonflow

𝙀𝙙𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 - 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗿 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Triggers: 𝗔𝗟𝗟 of them. Except no cruelty to 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 animals… well, except for the people! 😂 It’s extreme, vile, offensive. It’s all the things an extreme horror story should be... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #troypoppler #Edward #nsfw

Crystal Lake Publishing just launched their new YouTube channel, HOUSE OF SHADOWS & INK, and I’ll be contributing weekly film reviews! Subscribe to the channel NOW (please) and leave a comment. I challenege you to try to stump me with something obscure! youtu.be/bcLSqwRESyU?...

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 - Dan Franklin 5/5 ⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 **weeping silently** An updated take on the #golem in 1945 Prague, with a little boy as its focus as he clings to survival... brutal, bloody and beautiful... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #danfranklin #historicalhorror

Zu in her happy place! 🐰 🐇 . . . #adoptdontshop #rescuerabbit #houserabbit #housebunny #rabbitlife #rabbit #rabbits #freeroamrabbit #freerangerabbit  #rabbitstagram #bunnyrabbit #bunnylife #bunny #happybunny #happyrabbit

ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴠɪᴄɪᴏᴜꜱ ʜᴜɴɢᴇʀ – 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘆 2.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 gorgeous lyrical & lurking botanical horror is lovely, but the book is overlong by half and meanders with its tone. The bare wisp of a plot gets lost... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review My thanks to #netgalley & #orbitbooks

Sunday morning with Zu and Sherm 🐰 🐇 . . . #dailyfluff #adoptdontshop #rescuerabbit #houserabbit #housebunny #rabbitlife #rabbit #rabbitsofinstagram #freeroamrabbit #freerangerabbit #bunnyrabbit #bunniesofinstagram #petsofinstagram #bunnylife #bunny #bunnyoftheday #rabbitsoftheworld

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙞𝙧𝙡 𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙘 - 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘆 3.5/5⭐rounded up fast little horror story of a widowed mother living along with her young daughter in a house and a mysterious presence in her attic... quick, one-sitting tale... Recommended! www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky #haunted

𝙎𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙁𝙪𝙭 - 𝗧𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗲 1.5/5⭐, reluctantly rounded up 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 This read like bad teenage fan fic doing some misguided mashup of Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland & Natural Born Killers... it’s rather clunky & often cringey writing... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #booksky

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙡 - 𝗦.𝗘. 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ..a fast-paced horror-thriller that starts as a childhood abduction trauma story but evolves into a complex tale with an unreliable narrator, a mysterious cult-y group of rich folks... visit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... for full review #netgalley #booksky