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Guest Post: Better Watch Yourself by Adam Godfrey

Guest Post: Better Watch Yourself by Adam Godfrey

 

BETTER WATCH YOURSELF

By Adam Godfrey


It was a cool, fall night when it came to me. A simple idea, spawned while listening to the radio at a stop light. A random moment, no different than any other, when the lyrics to a song hit me through the speakers.

You wanna know what Zeus said to Narcissus?

You’d better watch yourself.

It was at that moment that a seed was planted, quickly developing into a unique concept that would...


Cover Reveal: UNTIL THE SUN by Chandler Morrison

Cover Reveal: UNTIL THE SUN by Chandler Morrison

 

UNTIL THE SUN by Chandler Morrison

Responsibility. Authority. Mortality.
If you could liberate yourself of these burdens, would any cost be too great?
On a hot August night, a troubled fifteen-year-old boy with a tragic past wakes to find his tyrannical foster parents murdered by a trio of nocturnal, blood-drinking heathens. The killers give him the opportunity for a new life, one where he can be relieved of traditional hardships, vanquish his enemies, and attain a sense of true belonging…at the cost...


The New Normal of Horror by Adam Pottle

The New Normal of Horror by Adam Pottle

* WARNING: This article contains spoilers for different books and films. *

In Danse Macabre, his influential work of nonfiction, Stephen King wrote that horror is 


really as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece pinstriped suit… [because] its 

main purpose is to reaffirm the virtues of the norm by showing us what awful things happen 

to people who venture into taboo lands. Within the framework of most horror tales we find 

a...


Sadie Hartmann Book Review: LITTLE EVE by Catriona Ward

Sadie Hartmann Book Review: LITTLE EVE by Catriona Ward

Little Eve by Catriona Ward (The Last House on Needless Street, Sundial)
Release Date: October 11th, 2022 (originally published in 2018, winner of The Shirley Jackson Award and the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror)
General Genre: Horror, Gothic
Subgenre/Themes: Doomsday cult/snake cult, patriarchy, multiple POVs, strong female protagonists, motherhood, pregnancy, murder-mystery, historical fiction
Writing Style: rich, dense, atmospheric prose

What You Need to Know: The book opens with a tale told from the end, a group of people killed in a seemingly ritualistic...


Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: A History of Fear by Luke Dumas

Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: A History of Fear by Luke Dumas

A History of Fear by Luke Dumas (debut novel)
Release Date: December 6th, 2022

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General Genre: Horror, Thriller, Suspense
Subgenre/Themes: Crime-Thriller, Cult-like church, spiritual abuse, the Devil, paranoia, phobias, mental illness, college life, Scotland, Ghostwriting, LBGTQIA+
Writing Style: First Person POV, Intricately plotted, epistolary & narrative

What You Need to Know: Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it.

My...