Tapeworm: A Vampire Novel – A.P. Thayer 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Sigh... a disappointment. Not really a vampire novel but a bug horror... At first the relationship building was interesting but then it just dragged on and on with nothing substantial happening... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Medusa – Rosie Hewlett 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Another retelling of a Greek myth, this novella purports to right the wrongs of history from the POV of Medusa, told from her place in the afterlife... While I enjoyed the story, I felt it was lacking a singular voice review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

On A Clear Day, You Can See Block Island – Gage Greenwood 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 There are monsters in the world & the Keatings have seen it with their own eyes. Right from the jump this relentlessly traumatic story lets you know it’s not going to pull any punches review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

The Wetworks Miracle – Caleb Sierra 3.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 imaginative desolate world is unique... After escaping their collapsing world’s ecology a group of colonists land on a world that is occupied by a singular ‘Root’. intriguing & thought provoking story... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Now, I’m not the target audience here... Turns out my cynical, sardonic soul can still be charmed by childhood adventures. And this book was an absolute delight... Review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

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- Lovecraft’s Brood – Ellen Datlow (ed) 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 This collection of stories isn’t bad, but most of them, individually, also weren’t great... My overall discontent is the majority of the tales didn’t provide that frisson of existential dread... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Pet Shop Boys Volume – Chris Heath 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 An exhaustive compendium of Pet Shop Boys uniquely recognizable visual aesthetic & style throughout the years... This is a must for any PSB fan – or anyone who just loves design... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Carry Me To My Grave – Christopher Golden 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 frantic & hair-raising: a man tasked with protecting his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them... creatures pursuing as they cut a path of bloody destruction & death was visceral... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 📚💙

Bloom – @delilahsdawson.bsky.social 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Blossoming, budding… blooming horror… this has it all & it packs a punch. Dawson’s prose is gorgeous & lush without being indulgent... This delicious novella is sweet and savage in all the right ways. review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Habits of the Sea – Shea Ernshaw 2.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 The blurb for this drew me – a book about a timeless, mythical island that’s drifting on the ocean with a man living on it who never ages... alas despite the descriptive writing the story was dull & draggy review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- Puzzle House 2 – Duncan Ralston 4.5/5⭐, rounded up 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Ralston amps up the momentum as well as the stakes as Henry discovers that he’s involved in a sweeping coup as ancient gods appear all over the city... The next book can’t come fast enough! review @ www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Puzzle House – Duncan Ralston 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 kinda a mashup of elements of Saw, Cabin In The Woods, Cube & Agatha Christie locked-room whodunnits all set in a crazy escape room - no HOUSE - with a big fat reward at the end of it all – if you survive review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Imagine the Horror: Dark Tales of Abomination – A.F. Cosentino 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 decent collection of 10 short horror stories that lean to a moderate level of horror so if you’re not into anything too squeamish then these stories should be right up your alley review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

NEED – Ruth Anna Evans (ed) 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Solid wonderfully varied collection centring on addiction, hunger, desperation, desire & all its permutations… this offering of quick and dirty short horrors will satisfy that craving and leave you wanting more. review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

My Darling Dreadful Thing – Johanna van Veen 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 lovely gothic novel, haunting & elegant romance with plenty of deep dark secrets, charming & terrifying ghosts & a story that unfolds at a languid pace Recommend for a haunting atmospheric read! review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Oh heck yeah can’t wait to dig into this one @tkrex.bsky.social @stelliform.press

- Claustrophobis - Evan Jameson 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...not light reading by any stretch. It’s dismal & heavy & misanthropic, but it also makes you ruminate on the core nature of humanity... very excellent visceral scenes, excellent creature & world building... full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Stay Alive – Scott Rowley 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I have waited literal decades like so many other fans, with great apprehension & trepidation for the story. And here it is. And it’s made me feel no better... I knew this book wouldn’t be a happy one... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 📚💙 #bigcountry

- Strange Houses – Uketsu 2.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Inventive but deeply irritating! Strange architecture, sure. But this book’s absurdities just go on and on I'd have actually bought into it more if it had turned out to be a liminal space trope... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- Barely Magic – Debra Castaneda 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I surprisingly realized by the second chapter of this novel that I was absolutely smitten with it, I suspected I had been lured in by nixies and held hostage by a group of pesky chaneques… www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Pumpkin Seeds – Tyler Downs 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Fast paced occult detective noir brimming with mystery, excellent world-building, & characters I love... replete with occult critters, demons, ghosts, reanimation, gruesome murders we need more from this world! review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Going To The Six – A.C. Hessenauer 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Water Horror? I let the lake in & I’m so happy I did! This is my first Hessenauer book & what a great way to start. I love a good ocean/lake/water horror: this one was that! ominous and eerie... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Once again Stephen Graham Jones doesn’t disappoint! This follow up to My Heart Is A Chainsaw delivers in all the best possible ways... his horror movie knowledge is epic & intimidating... full review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Perverts – Mac Crane 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I do ❤️ short story collections, unfortunately more of these didn’t really land for me than did... focuses on themes of shame, desire, identity, parental trauma, much of which is told through allegorical whimsy or surrealism... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Feral – John Ashley 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 fun story with an ancient, grouchy demon who makes his human sacrifices while possessing the body of an animal...he makes a hilariously tragic miscalculation & winds up in the body of an aging, fat domestic housecat... Review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- The Black Farm – Elias Witherow 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 There’s some unique world building here. Very visual, very bleak. that was about the only interesting part for me... a little too repetitious and predictable in the end and just meh overall. review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I can’t remember what I was going to write… How many times have I read this book?!?!? Now I have so much more to worry over what I’ve ever forgotten in my life… 🤣 😟 😕 😵 Review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

The Wetworks Miracle is available for download on Netgalley! Fans of weird horror, dark fantasy, portal fiction, biopunk, and religious esoterica will want to check out new horror from a new Latino author. Grab the novella here: www.netgalley.com/ca.... The Miracle manifests July 30 2026.

The Wildcraft Drones – @tkrex.bsky.social 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Swoon. I absolutely LOVED this magnificent, gorgeous ode to humanity’s hubris & the natural world that turns the idea of a future dystopia on its head... review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Release 21-May-2026 💙📚 @stelliform.press

Say Everything – Ione Skye 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A well written & thoughtful memoir... Candid without being salacious, Skye reveals her emotional loneliness and desperation to be seen in a chaotic and discordant existence... it struck a raw, nostalgic nerve full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 📚💙

- Come Sing For The Harrowing – @dancoxon.bsky.social 4.5/5⭐ unsettling collection of shorts from this (new to me) author.... a collection of horror tales that has a little bit of everything. Not a bad one in the bunch... Off to get more of his books! 💙📚 Review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A good day of recent #bookmail including a bunch of indie authors, an indie horror publisher, Canadian authors & some very excellent Canadian publishers @stelliform.press @ecwpress.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social #supportindieauthors #canadianwriters #indiehorror #booksky

A Spell For Saints And Sinners – Emily Carpenter 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...kind of like reading a good old VC Andrews 80s melodrama... As an adult it doesn’t work for me... It wasn’t absolutely horrible, as long as I pretended I was still 14 yrs old... full review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Honeysuckle – @barfridmantell.bsky.social 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...body autonomy horror at its most subtle: skillfully & softly depicted through the beauty of nature & love as it morphs to codependence, obsession, possession & a fight for self-determination... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

Sweetbitter Song – Rosie Hewlett 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...I found the smaller plot points and changes that Hewlett made to the story far more interesting to consider and much more engaging than the emotional aspects of the story.... Review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #retelling 📚💙

The Gods In Small Doses – Josh Bell 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...collection of weird fiction of absurdism & the bizarre, unsettling, disturbing in the vein of Brian Evenson, Thomas Ligotti or Caitlin Kiernan’s existential dread & horror-tinged dark fantasies... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

Wild People Quiet – Tara Gereaux 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 An exceptionally gorgeous historical novel of Metis culture in Saskatchewan in the early to mid 1900s... I think I’ve read my favourite book of the year already. An immediate classic of literature... review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

-- Heat And Labor – @drewhuff.bsky.social 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Short, merciless little novelette of pregnancy horror laced with cosmic dread that surprised me... Huff always manages to sneak emotional gravitas into the most gruesome of stories... full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

Lady Tremaine - Rachel Hochhauser 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I really enjoyed this unique & fully engaging reimaging of the Cinderella fable, from the POV of the evil stepmother as she & her daughters & stepdaughter suffer bad luck, misfortune, & worse. full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

- 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