The people of Black Spring, New York are cursed. It’s not really their fault. They […]
Long Black Veil, by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Long Black Veil begins like many other “awful thing happens to a group […]
Winter Tide, by Ruthanna Emrys
Though I haven’t read any of his stories myself, I can understand why Lovecraft‘s Cthulu […]
The Gargoyle Hunters, by John Freeman Gill
1974 is a hard year for Griffin Watts. His parents have split up and they […]
The Second Mrs. Hockaday, by Susan Rivers
Placidia only knew her future husband for 48 hours before she married him. They met […]
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a reputation. Everyone someone asked what I was reading this week, […]
The Small Backs of Children, by Lidia Yuknavitch
Every now and then, I run across a book that I can’t explain to other […]
The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin
So many novels and movies end with whoever needs to be saved, saved. The bad […]
Time’s Arrow, by Martin Amis
In physics, the “arrow of time” is a metaphor for time and entropy first coined […]
The Longest Night, by Andria Williams
Being a military wife is a tough job. Being a military wife whose husband is assigned […]