Bird Box kinda snuck up on me. I heard about it when the Goodreads horror reading group voted to make it book of the month. […]
Halloween Stories: The Pine Deep Trilogy
Horror Books with the Undead Rat takes a quick look at the great Halloween Stories such as The Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry.
Ghost Stories to Watch
Now that it’s October, ads for Halloween costumes, candy and haunted houses are starting to appear everywhere. To get you in the mood, you can […]
Zombies are the New Vampires: A Book List II
In the first part of this list (Zombies are the New Vampires: Book List), I argued that while vampires used to be the most popular […]
What If They Came Back?
Poet Jason Mott has struck gold with his debut novel, The Returned. He’s enjoyed starred reviews in the major review journals and landed himself a deal […]
To Live and Die in Philadelphia
Here at the Heights Library system, we’re nearly all fans of local author Richard Montanari — even those of us too timid to read his thrillers enjoy talking to him. And those of us who do read the Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano? We can’t get enough blood, guts and severely twisted killers.
Awesome 90s Creepiness
Take a trip back to the ’90s with Tenderness by Robert Cormier (published in 1997). 15-year-old Lori becomes obsessed with an 18-year-old serial killer who […]
I’ll Put the Bite on You: Frostbite
“A person is there, one day, and the next he doesn’t exist. Even if he’s your dad. Because nobody is safe. Ever.” Cheyenne Clark is […]
A Gut-Wrenching Story of a Dying World
“I reach for my baby . . . But my hands are melting.” A young, pregnant woman, fraught with nightmares, rides a train through a […]
