News — Favorite Books

We all have to start somewhere. To celebrate the spooky season we decided to share our recommendations for the first horror novel for people that have never read the genre before. Even if you haven’t read horror before, you’ve heard of Stephen King. King books like Pet Sematary, Salem’s Lot, IT, Night Shift, and Joyland are all fantastic choices to start with horror fiction. But if you want to start elsewhere or the only horror you’ve read is from King, you can consider this list to be your horror stater...

TWELVE NIGHTS AT ROTTER HOUSE

Author: J. W. Ocker

Publisher: Turner 

Felix Allsey is a cocky travel writer. He is a skeptic that writes about the haunted places that he visits. He convinces the owner of the Rotterdam Mansion, or Rotter House, to let him stay there with no contact with the outside world for 13 nights. He is convinced that this book will put him on the best seller’s list. When his best friend, Thomas, joins him for the 13-night project, things start going wrong. Felix...

Just recently, I’ve noticed a lot of talk about a novella called Dear Laura, by Gemma Amor. Being unfamiliar with the author's work, I was unsure of what to expect. What I found, was that Dear Laura was every bit as good as I’ve been led to believe. What I also discovered, is that Dear Laura is one of those books that, while it’s definitely horror, it’s not what you’d expect horror to be.

Dear Laura is the story of Laura, a woman who has been stalked and terrorized by a madman...

Keely's Review:

Like many Horror Aficionados, I started dabbling in the genre at a young age. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Goosebumps and anything Christopher Pike ever wrote could probably be found on all our shelves in grade school. As I moved further into my adolescence, I desired a more “grown-up” version of horror and made my way through the works of Poe and Dante’s Inferno. While I adored all the stories that I experienced in those years, there was still a void that only a specific...

What is a Night Worms Book Party? Basically, the Night Worms Review Team is made up of some very creative individuals so every Book Party will probably look different but for Hunter Shea's book SLASH, here's what it looked like:

• The whole team got a physical ARC
• We all posted on social media when we got it (exposure)
• We organized a weekend to post it in our feed (exposure)
• Mother Horror interviewed Hunter Shea (read it here)
• A postcard of the cover/synopsis was included in our package
• Today is our "One Line Review" post!