Book Reviews

A Nightmare Called Home is the debut novella by Brandon Long, published by Helium Beach. I absolutely love reading debut novels. It’s a chance to discover new authors, who have put their heart and soul into their “baby” and are now ready to present it to the world. The synopsis …

Upon reading the synopsis of The Girl in Green by Staci Layne Wilson, I was intrigued and decided to read it. It is a tough topic to write about, a child out there killing others. Oddly it is also a compelling topic that you can’t help to be curious about. …

I always love an opportunity to read “new to me” authors. That’s one of the cool things I get to do here at PopHorror. We now live in a world where I believe our TBR lists are heavily influenced by social platforms, such as Instagram and Tik Tok. I do …

Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows is a dark genre-blending novel that combines elements of gothic literature, psychological horror, and literary fiction. Published by the University of Massachusetts Press and part of the Juniper Prize for Fiction series. The novel explores themes of motherhood, obsession, generational trauma, and the uneasy …

Two minutes after completing the final, captivatingly dramatic pages of Then We’ll Be Safe the new  psychological thriller by award winning author Jes Hart Stone, I’m left with, not just goosebumps, but a feeling only too familiar to the stories teenage fugitive leads – I WANT MORE! Such is the …

A Fresh Perspective on Tolkien’s Life and Creative Legacy J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy by Don Marshall (aka “The Obscure Lord of the Rings Facts Guy”) is a compact biography that celebrates Tolkien as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (and so much …

The Toxic Avenger novelization is one of the rare cases where a book based on a movie actually manages to capture the wild, unhinged spirit of its source material. Written by Adam Cesare, who has made a name for himself with his energetic and fast-paced horror fiction, this novel takes everything …

Author A. Rushby (The Stand In 2022) takes readers on a journey into the dark underbelly of Georgian-era London with Slashed Beauties. In an attempt to entice male medical students to study female anatomy in eighteenth-century London, ultrarealistic wax figures of women are created – otherwise known as anatomical Venuses. …

It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are? Playground: Child of Divorce (COD) is the prequel to 2022’s infamously viral TikTok hit, Playground, taking place a few years before Geraldine’s twisted arena was fully built. Author Aron Beauregard has returned to bring readers once again into Geraldine Borden’s …

Time travel is something I totally geek out about. If I hear about a tv show, a movie or a book with the concept of time travel, I am so there. Additionally, I am a huge fan of historical fiction books. So when I read the synopsis of Hayley Gelfuso’s …