Book Reviews

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 …

One Yellow Eye, is the debut novel by Leigh Radford. I always look forward to reading debut books. I know that the finished product is truly a labor of love. An author has put in so much of themselves into writing this book, which usually makes it a great read. …

I have my “tried and true authors,’ my “go to” authors if you will. However, I am always on the lookout for new ones to add to my repertoire. Glass Girls by Danie Shokoohi is a book that intrigued me immediately after reading the synopsis. It is the debut novel …