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House Next Door, The

Brand New House, Evil House Author: Anne Rivers Siddons When I finally got Covid and was stuck isolating (and going stir crazy) in the bedroom, I picked up The House Next Door. I quickly forgot about my sick room with its twisted sheets and balls of Kleenex, and was instead transported into a normal, happy world that was slowly, insidiously turning inside out. The clatter of ice in drinks, the comforting days of sitting on a porch with a friend, the curiosity about the transformation of a vacant lot next door, all captured me with the lulling slowness of a good [...]

Frances Carden2022-12-29T09:28:28-07:00December 3rd, 2022|Tags: book review, haunted, horror, read, reading, reviews|

Sunday Afternoons and Other Times Remembered

Murder or Mundane? Author: Ben Ewell Easter Sunday 1992 – Dale Ewell, his wife, and his daughter Tiffany are all shot to death in their quite suburban home. Later, Ben Ewell, Dale’s brother, received a horrible call that he will never forget, turning the remaining family upside down. After that there was suspicion, accusation, and finally a trial. Some members of the family would never speak again. This is how Ben Ewell’s memoir, Sunday Afternoons and Other Times Remembered, begins. It appears Ewell’s focus will be on loss, what comes afterwards, and how a killer is found and brought to justice. [...]

Frances Carden2022-11-30T08:18:53-07:00November 29th, 2022|Tags: book review, memoir, nonfiction, read, reading, reviews|

Malignant

Torture Porn in Print Author: Michaelbrent Collings It’s a holiday. The buildings should be empty. But a selective announcement went out, and a cadre of misbehaving rich kids and their ne'er-do-well professors are in attendance today at an otherwise abandoned Reina High School. Only, the session today is one of blood and pain and vengeance. As a highly trained tactical team holds the students and teachers hostage, the police swarm to launch a rescue attempt, all the while trying to understand the ringleader, Teacher. Teacher, it seems, has a lesson he wants everyone to learn, and as the bodies stack up [...]

Frances Carden2022-11-28T18:05:23-07:00November 28th, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, paramilitary, read, reading|