horror

The Effects of Generational Abuse Author: Catriona Ward Rob’s life is only perfect on the outside. On the inside, it is a life of abuse and hatred. Something keeps Rob in her loveless marriage though. Makes her put up with her husband’s violence, keeps them hurting one another day in and day out. That something is her children. Two little girls. It’s worth the violence, the pain, the degradation. But then one day, Rob discovers the bones in Callie’s room. The tiny animal bones, fitted together against construction paper, reassembled into a whole. Callie says the ghosts come with her, keep [...]

Tree Vengeance Author: Debra Castaneda is something ancient in the aspen forest, and it hates us. Newly hired Forest Service Ranger Knox has mixed feelings about his Utah post. While he is excited to have a job, he is terrified to tell his wife that they are leaving her beloved big city for a remote posting. His cabin, right next to the rare clone aspen forest, is majestic and beautiful. But there are none of the big city mod cons and nowhere for Knox’s increasingly agitated wife to escape the isolation. Add to that the fact that something about the forest, [...]

If Drugs Could Bring Back the Dead Author: Clay Mcleod Chapman What if your high could take you beyond this world? What if it could bring back your dead, reunite you with all the people you have ever loved and lost? Would you take that pill? Would you ever be able to stop taking it? I admit, when I first heard that my horror book club picked Ghost Eaters, I was all together disappointed. Stories about drugs and drug culture aren’t my usual go-to reads, and I had liked the other options far better. But I challenge myself to read whatever [...]