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Zakk muses on fear, and The Fearing: Book 2 - Water and Wind

What do you fear? Yeah, you. The kind soul reading this rambling piece right now. What keeps you up at night, stops you in your tracks, or simply makes your breath hitch?

I myself, am afraid of heights, always have been. That one is fairly common. I worry that I’ll never break this mental wall that has been keeping me from solid and timely book reviews, this one is maybe a little more nuanced. I am also super sketchy on...

Happy Friday Night Worms! If you follow me on Instagram you have seen me raving about A Place for Sinners by Aaron Dries, and this blog post is going to be no different. I had a whole
Autumn color-themed post ready to go, but then I finished this book. And I need to SHOUT ABOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. So I’m saving that fall-themed post for next week, and here we are. You guys, this book. You need it. It’s so refreshing to read such a unique horror. I was...

Rites of Extinction by Matt Serafini

Rebecca Daniels is a forty-something woman on a mission to exact revenge against the man that murdered her teenage daughter. What seems to start as a typical thrilling manhunt soon takes a bizarre and sinister turn. In place of a lengthy synopsis, this is really all you need.

Serafini writes Rebecca’s character, a seasoned private investigator with a chip on her shoulder, brilliantly. In the first short chapter, we catch a glimpse of a woman we assume is just suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome....

John's Review:

D.W. Gillespie has surprised the hell out of me with his latest novel, One by One. It’s a wonderfully written horror that takes a simple idea and manages to make it both terrifying and surprising.

The story starts out simple enough. Down on their luck, the Easton family sells their home in order to begin again in a fixer-upper against the wishes of essentially everyone BUT dad. They move in, and despite dad’s best efforts, the house just feels off to everyone else. Even our protagonist, 10 year old Alice, who’s...

Happy Friday Night Worms! I finished up Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite (who now identifies as Billy Martin, but is known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite) the other day and if you know a single thing about me at all, you probably know that I love gross, gory, disturbing and unnerving books. You guys, I’ve found it (shout out to my fellow Night Worms blogger Keely for suggesting it to me). This book is not for the faint of heart or those with weak stomachs. It’s grim but it’s beautiful. The characters, for the...