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Review: Ink Vine by Elizabeth Broadbent

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Ink Vine by Elizabeth Broadbent (April 2024) 118 pages Reviewed by Dave Simms The horror novella can be a powerful entity. When handled properly, it’s a gut punch, a blade twist to the heart, and a mind screw all at the same time. Elizabeth Broadbent has penned one of those stories here in Ink Vine, a tale … Continue Reading! “Review: Ink Vine by Elizabeth Broadbent”

Review: Decomposition Book by Sara Van Os

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Decomposition Book by Sara Van Os HarperCollins (May 19, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Loneliness and desperation ooze from Sara van Os’s Decomposition Book: A Novel. Os paints a compelling, bleak, and darkly humorous portrait of two women in crisis: Ava, hopelessly lost in the Adirondacks during a weekend hiking trip with two work friends, and Savannah, … Continue Reading! “Review: Decomposition Book by Sara Van Os”

Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson

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The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson Erewhon Books (March 31, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Tamika Thompson’s The Curse of Hester Gardens is an urgent novel. Set in the Michigan projects, it’s a novel about gun violence, and if you suspect that makes for a rough emotional ride, you’d be right. It’s a novel … Continue Reading! “Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson”

Review: Things Are As They Should Be and Other Words to Die For by P.M. Raymond

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Things Are As They Should Be and Other Words to Die For by P.M. Raymond Uncomfortably Dark Horror (April 26, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent As a fellow Southern author, I read P.M. Raymond’s Things Are As They Should Be and Other Words to Die For with particular relish. An interconnected book of short stories with … Continue Reading! “Review: Things Are As They Should Be and Other Words to Die For by P.M. Raymond”

Review: The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste

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The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste Raw Dog Screaming Press (April 14, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Raw Dog Screaming Press releases another banger with Gwendolyn Kiste’s The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own. Containing the Bram Stoker Award-winning “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westerna’s Diary),” it’s a … Continue Reading! “Review: The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste”

Review: Oversight: Erasure Poetry by Carina Bissett and Lee Murray

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Oversight: Erasure Poetry by Carina Bissett and Lee Murray Running Wild Press (March 8, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Poetry is a difficult beast. We authors often say that it’s harder to write a great short story than a good novel. If that’s true, great poetry is more difficult by far. Not only does condensation of … Continue Reading! “Review: Oversight: Erasure Poetry by Carina Bissett and Lee Murray”

Review: The Tryst by L. Marie Wood

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The Tryst by L. Marie Wood Mocha Memoir Press (February 14, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent L. Marie Wood’s new novel, The Tryst is the first book in her five-installment Red Thread Saga, and it’s not horror, but slipstream. For those unfamiliar (and I counted myself among them), slipstream is a catch-all term for works that … Continue Reading! “Review: The Tryst by L. Marie Wood”

Review: Dollface by Lindy Ryand

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Dollface by Lindy Ryan Minotaur Books (February 24, 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent In a publishing landscape that loves to hand us blonde, virginal final girls, Lindy Ryan’s Dollface gives us something different: a forty-something mother.  That shouldn’t be rare. It is. 

Review: The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe

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The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe Flame Tree Press (January 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent For Americans, it’s difficult to conceptualize what living under a truly authoritarian government means: the snitching, the pressure to conform, the everyday minutiae of life controlled by the state. Alex Woodroe captures these quandaries in The Night Ship. While it’s a … Continue Reading! “Review: The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe”

Review: ITCH! by Gemma Amor

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ITCH! by Gemma Amor Hodder & Stoughton (January 2026) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent With a title like ITCH!, you know Gemma Amor’s bringing the bug horror. I was prepared to spend this read feeling like something was biting me — and I did. I wasn’t prepared for the real soul-crushing heart of this LGBTQIA2+ novel. ITCH! … Continue Reading! “Review: ITCH! by Gemma Amor”

Review: Unworthy by L. Marie Wood

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Unworthy by L. Marie Wood Mocha Memoirs Press (September 2025) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Fans of psychological horror, rejoice: Unworthy, L. Marie Wood’s “novel in stories,” has dropped. Wood is a recognized virtuoso of the subgenre, her list of awards as long as it is genre-spanning, and readers craving true literary terror will find the fix … Continue Reading! “Review: Unworthy by L. Marie Wood”

Review: The Pulse Remains by Rob Grimoire

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The Pulse Remains by Rob Grimoire Undertaker Books (August 2025) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent In a Southern Gothic novel, the past returns to haunt the present. Emphasizing moral bankruptcy and degeneracy, particularly of the upper classes, the genre has traditionally been dominated by white people and white stories — William Faulkner, Flannery O’Conner, and Michael McDowell.  … Continue Reading! “Review: The Pulse Remains by Rob Grimoire”

Review: White Flight by Peter O’Keefe

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White Flight by Peter O’Keefe Uncomfotably Dark Horror (October 2025) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Everyone loves a good haunted house story. Make it short and quick, throw in some serious tension, stir in a few vivid characters, add a dose of disorientation — you’ve probably got a hit. Peter O’Keefe does this one better in White … Continue Reading! “Review: White Flight by Peter O’Keefe”

Review: Hank Flynn: The Return by Candace Nola

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Hank Flynn: The Return by Candace Nola Uncomfortably Dark (July 2025) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent I’m generally not a fan of Western horror, though it’s an interesting subgenre. I’m revising that idea after Candace Nola’s Hank Flynn: The Return. Haven’t read the original Hank Flynn? Don’t stress. I hadn’t either. In Hank Flynn: The Return, Nola … Continue Reading! “Review: Hank Flynn: The Return by Candace Nola”

Review: Moonflow by Bitter Karella

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Moonflow by Bitter Karella Run For It (September 2, 2025) Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent Among other things, Bitter Karella’s Moonflow promises “fungus gods, trans feels, haunted forests, weird rituals, lesbian hippies, fat sex, humongous gahungawungas, and raccoons.” It certainly delivers. Moonflow is a magnificently queer magical mystery trip into the darkly bizarre heart of Pamogo Forest. … Continue Reading! “Review: Moonflow by Bitter Karella”