reviews

This is not my beautiful house! Author: Kelley McNeil I love a good mystery, especially one that looks like it might be a touch supernatural. Or at least a touch psychological. Kelley McNeil’s A Day Like This promised me both mystery and the haunting unreliability of memory. Sold! Annie Beyers is living her best life. She has a loving husband and daughter and lives in her dream house in the country. Her little family has successfully escaped from the rat race of the city and she treasures the life they’ve built. Everything goes haywire when Annie is taking Hannah to [...]

Sometimes Horror Writers Write Crime Novels and Sometimes They’re Really Good Author: Stephen King I know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I have to admit I do.  All the time.  Even when it’s a Stephen King book and I KNOW I’m going to buy it and read it and, most likely, enjoy it.  I still will look at the cover first and form an opinion of the book as a whole.  I did that with his 2021 book BILLY SUMMERS, and I was totally 100% wrong. In this particular case, a terrible cover did [...]

On Grief, and Evil Mermaids, and Myth Author: John Langan After losing his wife, Abe is forced to go through his days alone, seeking respite from the grief and a touchstone to evoke the woman he loved. As life trickles by, he finds his wife again in nature; in the peaceful moments of fishing a connection is forged between the living and dead. She is not lost, not truly. She is merely other now. Years go by and Abe survives with his quite evenings, his fishing pole, and his strange hopes and sentiments. When a young man at Abe’s job begins [...]