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Hidden, The

Monsters in the Mirror Author: Sarah Pinborough What does a house full of mutilated bodies, broken mirrors, and occult symbols have to do with one children’s book editor, happily sleeping in her cozy apartment? Everything . . . Rachel Wright gets up from a night of bad dreams, goes to the bathroom, and sees something soul shattering in the mirror. When she wakes up in the hospital, she has no memory of it, or of her previous life. The twist? Rachel likes her amnesia. Going around her apartment, she finds her old sensible clothes boring, her job as a children’s book [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-14T12:40:23-07:00December 14th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

Staircase in the Woods, The

"Home is where the hurt is." Author: Chuck Wendig Four outcasts. One-star student. Five friends. Matty is the star student, the good one, the one who watches after the others. The one who fights bullies, who throws his lot in with his traumatized friends, who sinks his reputation by hanging out with the “bad” kids. The druggies. The kids with no future. Matty is the glue, the hope. Until one night, camping in the woods, when they find a lone staircase. Matty goes up it . . . and is never seen again. Twenty-years later, everyone in the town still thinks [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-08T13:50:48-07:00December 8th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, Staircase in the Woods|

Haunting of Paynes Hollow, The

Ancient Dutch Folklore and Serial Killers Author: Kelley Armstrong Samantha Payne hasn’t been the same since the day she discovered her father burying a boy’s body on their summer property at Paynes Hollow. She hasn’t been back there since the discovery and its tragic aftermath either. Now, her father is long dead, branded a serial killer, and she and her entire family are infamous. But Samantha’s cruel grandfather insists on bringing the past back to life, arguing that her father was never a killer and that she doesn’t know what she saw – she was just a child, after all. But [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-06T16:51:46-07:00December 6th, 2025|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, headless horseman, horror, read, reading|