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This Wretched Valley

A Climb To Die For Author: Jenny Kiefer Haunted, magical forests covered in bones, echoing with the chilling wails of the damned. A big climb, an untouched cliff. A potential legend. Four young people, excited for their unprecedented discovery, the climb of a lifetime, and a geological feat, walking into the unknown. No cell service. No help. No way out. The Wretched Valley caught my attention first with the cover, and then with The Ruins-like vibe. I enjoy survival horror, but more than that I like the creeping paranoia of isolation (a horror love I got from John Carpenter’s The Thing, [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-04T11:03:52-07:00November 4th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, Jenny Kiefer, read, reading, survival horror, This Wretched Valley|

Eat The Ones You Love

“Lay waste to yourself all you like, I will grown in your ruin.” Author: Sarah Maria Griffin There is nothing more attractive to a horror-hound/B-movie monster lover than the idea of a sentient, carnivorous plant. It evokes the lovably laughable Little Shop of Horrors while still hitting all the right tones of horror. After all, what is more terrifying than being secretly observed and puppeted by something that should be so ordinary, so innocuous? And that, dear reader, was the siren call that led me to this book. Well, that and the gorgeous cover. What it promises (feed me Seymour!) is [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-03T15:32:10-07:00November 3rd, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, Sarah Maria Griffin|

Heads

Evil '80s Science and Rebellious Disembodied Heads Author: David Osborn Over fifteen years ago now, I purchased a huge eBay mystery book lot that just keeps giving. What’s better than horror novels, you ask? Old horror novels, with ridiculous names, 80s style covers, and enough camp to keep a horror hound happy. That’s where David Osborn’s Heads comes into play. It was the next in the still astonishingly huge pile. The story follows an unethical, secret lab with hot doctors who like to experiment on supposed “volunteers.” Now, back in the 80s, the whole idea of cryogenics and head freezing and [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-20T11:10:17-07:00October 20th, 2025|Tags: 80s, book review, campy, horror, read, reading, science fiction|