In the early decades of telephone service, switchboard operators would literally connect callers with phone […]
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson
Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of crime scenes. For someone who sees ghosts, one would […]
A House with Good Bones, by T. Kingfisher
Going back to one’s childhood home after years away can be a strange experience. It’s […]
Saturnalia, by Stephanie Feldman
Trigger warning for rape. It’s the end of the world for most people in Stephanie […]
Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly
The further I get from my teenage years, the harder it is for me to […]
VenCo, by Cherie Dimaline
Lucky St. James is just trying to keep herself and her grandmother (who has dementia) […]
The Blue Window, by Suzanne Berne
Early in Suzanne Berne’s troubling family portrait, The Blue Window, Marika tells her daughter that […]
Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult, by Kyle McCord
Trigger warning for murder and mass suicide. Tom Duncan is not supposed to be alive. […]
Hotel Splendide, by Ludwig Bemelmans
Before he was the writer and illustrator of the Madeline books, Ludwig Bemelmans was a […]
My Heart is a Chainsaw, by Stephen Graham Jones
Few other genres remind me of how subjective taste in entertainment is like horror. Mystery […]