News — Sadie Hartmann
Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: BAD DOLLS by Rachel Harrison
BAD DOLLS by Rachel Harrison (The Return, Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth)
Release Date: December 6th, 2022 from Berkley
Genre: Adult Horror Fiction, Short Stories, Audio/eBook Only, Thriller, Female-Centered
Themes/Sub-Genres: Female friendships, queer relationships, supernatural, bachelorette party, jealousy, ritualistic sacrifice, disordered eating, diets, grief, siblings, family, death, hinted suicide, creepy dolls, trauma, therapy
What You Need to Know: This is a...
Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: TOMBS by Junji Ito
TOMBS by Junji Ito (Shiver, Smashed)
Manga, Illustrated short horror stories
Release Date: March 28th, 2023
I read a NetGalley ARC on my iPhone through their app
Sub-genre: Gore, Body Horror, Ghosts, Supernatural/Paranormal
Graphic Novel/Hardcover
Sub-genre: Gore, Body Horror, Ghosts, Supernatural/Paranormal
Graphic Novel/Hardcover
Junji Ito is a goddamn, magical treasure to horror. Ito's imagination seems to come from some otherworldly place outside of anything we are accustomed to--As soon as I saw this was available to review on NetGalley I smashed that request button...
Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie (The Children of Red Peak, Suffer the Children)
Release Date: January 24th, 2023
I read a NetGalley ARC on my Kindle Paperwhite and a physical ARC
Sub-genre: Found Footage/Found Media
Writing Style: Epistolary format: journal entries, text messages, emails, raw video footage
What you need to know: The crew of "Fade to Black", a 'ghost hunters' like show, led by a married couple, Claire &...
Sub-genre: Found Footage/Found Media
Writing Style: Epistolary format: journal entries, text messages, emails, raw video footage
What you need to know: The crew of "Fade to Black", a 'ghost hunters' like show, led by a married couple, Claire &...
Cover Reveal: STARGAZERS by LP Hernandez
STARGAZERS by LP Hernandez
Cover Art: Luke Spooner
Don’t read with the lights on…this is My Dark Library.
A collection of novellas curated by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann to represent her favorite themes, tropes, and subgenres in horror fiction today.
Mother Horror presents:
STARGAZERS...
Book Review: MILK KISSES & OTHER STORIES by Ross Jeffery
Sometimes at night, I open my Kindle and don't feel like reading anything in my library. When this happens, I click on "Kindle Unlimited" and browse titles to see if there's anything short I can start and finish in one sitting.
The other night I saw Ross Jeffery's brand new, MILK KISSES & OTHER STORIES and loaded it right up. I love absolutely everything from the Short Sharp Shocks series by Demain...