Featuring everything from goth bars to the actual artifacts from the real demonologists on which The Conjuring series of movies is based. Everything goth, and just plain creepy, are within The Goth Atlas. Separated by continent, it is easy to hit the goth highlights wherever you are traveling (but pleaseContinue Reading
A new book by Harlan Coben is always a treat. But, Plot Twist, this one is a writing guide and self-help guide to living your best life too. If you are reading this review, I can virtually guarantee that you are a reader, but I also suspect that you mayContinue Reading
Are you ready for the next disaster? Even if you answered yes, Essential Off-Grid Survival Projects will give you many additional ways to prepare making your, and your family’s, survival more assured. The fifty projects are divided into Shelter, Water, Food and Safety. The projects vary from expensive purchased itemsContinue Reading
The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston starts out with a bang then quickly fizzles into boring. It may just be that I am decades away from being a teenager but this book was a snore fest. Just talking, then more talking, but no real character development. Looking back atContinue Reading
In I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell, Brie is the new receptionist in the office. One night she finds her boss, Luke, exorcising her most annoying co-worker. What is going on? Why does she still feel an attraction to Luke? And you thought you had a crazy office.Continue Reading
More of a “what happened?” than a whodunnit, The Silent Appeal turns classic mystery tropes on their head. A small amateur theater group puts on an Agatha Christie play while shenanigans occur backstage. Affairs, love stories, embezzlement, stalking, crime and murder are all covered. It is a cornucopia of gossipContinue Reading
Kudos to the author of The House That Eats the Dead. He made me believe that a house could be sentient, hungry, and trained like a dog. If you too are able to suspend your disbelief, this book is a fun and unique horror tale. Claire and Tom should haveContinue Reading
What would you do if an alien civilization told you and everyone on Earth it is Time to Play? This is no standard video game. People are dying. Monsters are spawning. Weapons are made from paper and duct tape. Life as we know it is over. All for an alienContinue Reading
I love the family and friends populating the Meg Langslow cozy mystery series. Reading the two new books published each year is usually a highlight for me. While Probable Caws does have the whole gang involved in horse rescuing, the mystery is kind of a miss. There weren’t enough redContinue Reading
The Women in White are four young women in the 1960s who participate in experiments involving their psychic abilities at a prestigious university. Riley is the modern day caretaker of one of the woman. As she digs into their history, she uncovers an untold story that has been buried, intentionally,Continue Reading
Bubble, Bubble, Tea and Trouble is the seventh book in the popular Tea by the Sea cozy mystery series. This time tearoom owner Lily and her trusty writer/hacker friend Bernie have to contend not just with murderers but also ghostly presences. A medium and her believers are visiting Lily’s grandmother’sContinue Reading
With a title like 50 True Stories That Will Scare You to Death, I expect three things to be true. Are there 50 stories? Yes. There are five categories: The Dead, The Gone, The Invaders, The Hunted, and The Unexplained. The Dead filled with spooks has 15 stories. The UnexplainedContinue Reading
Are you sick of horror plots being reused over and over again? If so, Carry Me to My Grave will be a refreshing surprise. No ordinary ghosts, vampires or zombies here. Instead an ancient evil awakens from beneath an equally ancient tree. Its goal is simple, get Maggie Wise’s bodyContinue Reading
A girl fell, jumped, or was pushed from a balcony during a college sorority rush party. Whodunnit? Find out in the twisty Sisterhood Above All. Having never been, and having no interest, in a sorority, this book didn’t really work for me. The characters were not fully fleshed out andContinue Reading
Frank Miller is an icon in comics. Push the Wall is his story. You don’t have to be a fan of Batman, Daredevil, or Sin City to enjoy this memoir/instruction manual of the creative process. There is just enough of Frank’s life included to see how his career began andContinue Reading
A Quiet Place is a twisty but slow moving psychological thriller. It is not a traditional mystery at all. And that is what I liked most about it. Asai’s wife has died young from a heart attack. She had a previous attack so her cause of death was no surprise.Continue Reading