Brilliant, intelligent and heart-wrenching. This story delivers a punch in the gut to anyone who didn’t manage to live up to their...

It may be because I was so impressed with the last book I read, but this one lacked lustre in comparison. I’ve enjoyed Masterton’s...

The Mill is a made for TV film about a middle-manager, Joe, waking up in a concrete and dirt triangle, expected to push a stone wheel...

I am amazed by how much Feutz managed to pack into a 91-page novella while still achieving the right balance between showing and telling....

When I embarked upon The Changeling (AppleTV+), I believed that one of my favourite novels, Victor LaValle’s The Changeling, would be...

I’ve read a multitude of reviews that have raved about this book, calling it a masterpiece of horror. So, I knew I would buy a copy...

A Light Most Hateful manages to be simultaneously hard-hitting and uplifting. With a cast of LGBTQ+ characters, well the L and Q at...

You can find my thoughts on episodes 1 – 5 here. Contains small spoilers. I will say it again, The Fall of the House of Usher is a...

The story is divided into five main parts, each reflecting one of the stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and...

As with his TV adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan uses the source material as a springboard to tell his own story in...

Dead Water balances the strengths and weaknesses of its main characters to great effect, isolating them on a cursed island to battle...

Mary relocates her family to her aunt’s old house in Alabama, a place she fled from sixteen years earlier. When her family experiences...

Starblood was first released in 2011, just after my 40th birthday. Since then, new books have been added, and for 2023 the three novels...

H.P. Lovecraft is infamous for his racism and xenophobia, even by the standards of his time, championing KKK lynchings and warning...

For day three of October Frights, I am reviewing Evil Dead Rise. For anyone who wants to check it out, it’s currently available on...

On the second day of October Frights, Carmilla gives to you, a review of Talk to Me. Released by A24, Talk to Me is a rollercoaster of a...

Welcome to October Frights. Between October 10 and 15, horror and paranormal authors will be sharing their thoughts and writing with the...

The Unclean is a horror novella set in Nigeria. According to the blurb: A dead child is cast into the evil forest by the clansmen in a...

HOLLOW BY DAVIDE TARSITANO From Davide Tarsitano, author of the acclaimed horror novel “The Tooth Fairy,” comes “HOLLOW,” a symphony of...

My short story Departures was featured in this awesome collection, but I won’t review my story; I’ll let you make your own mind up about...