Thomas Mullen dives deeply into the gray area between good and evil in The Rumor […]
Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent
I’ve put off writing this review because, even though I finished it nearly a week […]
The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan
Shubnum Khan’s powerful, hypnotic novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, floored me. I feel […]
Hazardous Spirits, by Anbara Salam
The traditional Christian wedding vows include provisions “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, […]
The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Sonoros, we learn early in Elizabeth Gonzalez James’s violent meditation on the sins of […]
Thistlefoot, by GennaRose Nethercott
Isaac and Bellatine Yaga don’t know much about their heritage. A grandmother or great-grandmother came […]
The Society of Intelligent Murderers, by Robin Vicary
Robin Vicary takes us back to 1974 in The Society of Intelligent Murderers. After a […]
The Witch’s Lens, by Luanne G. Smith
Petra Kurková’s life of quiet desperation is a little different from the usual kind, as […]
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Trigger warning for sexual violence. Reading a classic scary story is always a chancy thing. […]
In the Pines, by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Trigger warnings for racialized violence, brief descriptions of torture, and lynching. Historian Grace Elizabeth Hale […]