stillness is a lie, my dear
Disclosure: This review is based upon a copy provided by the publisher. No other consideration was offered. When I pulled Slasher Girls & Monster Boys out of my mailbox, I gave an involuntary squeak of excitement. It features some of my favourite YA authors, spanning those who work in a variety of genres including, of course, horror, […]
We all know that I have a fascination for dead things that some people think borders on the inordinate. I also love fiction featuring death-related subjects. And I particularly adore dark humour. Which would be why I love books like Six Feet Over It, and television series like Dead Like Me. They’re funny. They’re also about death and dying, but […]
When I picked up Bleeding Violet after months of urging, I was promised guts, gore, horror, and more. Those promises were 100% correct, and I have absolutely 0% regrets that I read this book — but it does come with a cautionary note, because if you are not the sort of person who likes ultraviolence, you will […]
It’s very rare, these days, for a book to actually frighten me – while some books are a little spooky, leave me unsettled or raise creepy ideas, they don’t actually scare me. I’m not afraid to turn the light off at the end of the night, or to get up to pee while I’m reading. […]
Mental health facilities, colloquially known as asylums, have long been a trope in horror, whether people are sneaking into closed facilities after dark, living in them, or interacting with them in some other way. It is not just the asylum itself that is horrifying, but also its inmates, those who stalk the halls and once […]
I’m a little bit in love with this fresh take on The Island of Doctor Moreau from Megan Shepherd, in which the story is fleshed out and explored in entirely new and delicious ways, while retaining the deep sense of creepiness and horror of the original. The Madman’s Daughter integrates a new character and a […]
I’ve been watching a lot of James Bond lately, as one does, and I was struck the other day by a marked shift between two different films; Goldfinger (1964) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Both films revolve around master villains who are attempting to gain control of a key resource for economic gain and political […]