Cracking Spines by Jason Cavallero
Cracking Spines (September 2025)
Reviewed by Dave Simms
Guides to horror books are great. Sometimes they’re a little cute, fancy, or obviously biased towards the freshest faces in the genre. All are fine, and some are incredibly done. This reviewer has gone through most of them and many are entertaining, sometimes, readers need a no-frills approach to their book addiction searches.
Jason Cavallero is a different beast entirely. Besides performing in a heavy metal band and playing drums for the New Orleans Saints, he lives and breathes horror fiction. It’s not something he picked up because it was cool or to help friends. Horror is IN his DNA. He devours over 200 books a year, but that’s likely an understatement.
The key thing is: he does this so the average horror fan doesn’t have to.Continue Reading
