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Keely's Review of HUG CHICKENPENNY by S. Craig Zahler 

Hug Chickenpenny is one of the most surprising books that I have read this year. When I opened the Night Worms July 2019 subscription package, I was rather indifferent to this one. The cover art is incredible but, I had no idea who the author was, and the title did not strike an immediate chord with me. 

I am constantly months, sometimes years, behind everyone else when it comes to reading what has just been released....

The Night Worms team recently did a read-along of Hailey Piper’s book THE POSSESSION OF NATALIE GLASGOW. Matt suggested it in our group chat because he loved it, and then BAM, a group of us bought it and read it together. Here are all of our reviews!

-Kallie Weisgarber

Buy it here. https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Natalie-Glasgow-Hailey-Piper-ebook/dp/B07HDWLZSV

Zakk’s review:

I really enjoyed the Possession of Natalie Glasgow, my first read from Hailey Piper. This book felt like a ringer from the get-go as I...

THE INSTITUTE Review by The Horror Hypothesis 

“Luke guessed you could get used to anything, it was a horrible idea.” -Stephen King

“No one who fully grasped the Institute's work could regard it as monstrous” -Stephen King 

Throughout his prolific career as an author, Stephen King has proven that he can deftly handle the horrors of institutionalization (RITA HAYWORTH AND THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) and the complicated social dynamics of children (IT, THE BODY).  In his most recent novel, THE INSTITUTE, he blends...

A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS- Shaun Hamill

“I think horror is the most important fiction in the world,” he said.

I sit here with tears streaming down my face as my mind and heart digest the last few pages of A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS. What a ride of a book.  

I first want to apologize to Kallie, my buddy for this book.  When we first started reading this I was in the starting stages of a really big move. A move that would take me from Texas, which funnily enough is the author’s,...

ZERO LIVES REMAINING by Adam Cesare

As a kid, I have memories of a place called DG’s arcade. I was born in the late ’80s, so I didn’t have much time with the arcade scene before the bells tolled upon it; Zero Lives remaining is a horrifying homage to those wonderful establishments.

I picked up Zero Lives Remaining in hopes of a nostalgia-filled experience, and thankfully, that’s exactly what Adam Cesare delivered. ZLR differs from Cesare’s previous nostalgia-fest in that it’s not set in the past, rather it’s set...