Laura is just a young girl at the start of Gemma Amor’s Dear Laura. It’s her birthday, she has her first boyfriend and she’s just experienced her first kiss. Her perfect reality is about to be shattered. She runs home for something she forgot. Before she can get back to her new boyfriend he gets into...
Rose McFarland has a troubled past. A fire that left her scarred claimed the lives of her abusive father and loving brother. Her mother shunned her, blaming Rose for the deaths of the men in the family. It didn’t come as much of a surprise. Rose’s mother had turned her back on her only daughter...
Rhee’s afterlife is limited to two places. When she haunts, it’s a stretch of highway ending at the cemetery where she was buried. When she isn’t haunting she’s at home, with her sisters. They feast together on their successful scares before they go to rest, never knowing if it will be a day, month or...
Former FBI Special Agent Alex Rourke put Cody Williams behind bars seven years ago and hoped he’d never set eyes on Williams again. Williams, the prime suspect in a series of child abductions and murders, was convicted for the attempted abduction of another girl and the murder of a serial rapist. Now, Williams is dying...
The stats are clear: the majority of people who work in publishing, including editors, are white. When I first started out as an author, nobody questioned whether or not someone could write something. I had a series with three protagonists that was sold to a New York publisher. My protagonists? A woman, a man and...
There are a number of short stories gathered in this horror collection, and they cover a wide range of subject matter. Like the best horror stories, they offer a mix of catalysts, problems and outcomes, and they are all distinct and captivating. Whether you’re reading about a young man who is doing something foolish in...
Chills is the first book in the Kathy Ryan series by Mary SanGiovanni, and it skips over some of the usual trappings of a debut series novel and gets right down to business. A freak snowstorm is wreaking havoc in late May. The town of Colby may be in Connecticut, but this is still far...
Dawna and John Temple have moved to West Virginia from Pittsburgh to slow the pace of their lives and reclaim John’s health. As they get to know their new home, Dawna finds herself walking down a country road, not far from her house. She sees a sign warning her of a witch on the other...
In 2005’s Yellow Line, Vince knows his place. Stick with your own kind. Don’t mix. Not on the bus, not in school. And when you date, you’d better stick to your own kind, too. Vince’s home is divided between Native persons and white people. It’s important to note this book was published in 2005. Given...