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Marcy's Review

Stephen Gregory did such an amazing job with this story. It is written so atmospherically and beautifully that the words just stick to you, making the scenes so tangible, and leaving you with all the feels. To give you just a taste, “There dawned one of those crisp December mornings in the mountains, when the air is full of the scent of the fir trees, so cold that it scalds the nostrils, humming with sunlight under a sky of unblemished blue.” I mean just wow.  The writing almost makes you...

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...

Happy Friday  Night worms! Who remembers where their love of horror came from? Mine was definitely from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, R. L. Stine and the fact that my mom was just happy I was reading, no matter what the book was.

 I recently came across these two books in a used book store and had no second thoughts about buying them. I did a quick reread and visited my horror roots. They hold up, even if just for nostalgia’s sake. If you have time, this month...

Happy Friday Night Worms! This weekend I’m on vacation at this adorable cabin in the middle of the woods. Before you ask, yes, I am keeping an eye out for hauntings in the woods and also for murderers while I’m at this secluded location. I did bring 16 books with me, because who doesn’t bring too many books on vacation? One of them is Dead Leaves, a seasonal collection of short stories by Kealan Patrick Burke. I actually just finished the last story on the drive here and let me tell...

Happy Friday Night Worms! Today we’re going a little off the beaten path of horror books and talking about some possible real-life horrors. If you’re anything like me, you love planning weird and spooky things to do with your friends and family during October. I always find things like “crybaby’s bridge,” or different haunted houses to go and check out. It Came From Ohio... has definitely helped me on my search for the weird, wild and unexplainable. I know you may not be from Ohio, but there is a book like this...