
Book Review: Scribe
Scribe is a hell of a book. It starts off like any other post-apocalyptic fiction. It dances along that same line that so many other dystopian tales do, somewhere between sci-fi and horror, never putting […]
Scribe is a hell of a book. It starts off like any other post-apocalyptic fiction. It dances along that same line that so many other dystopian tales do, somewhere between sci-fi and horror, never putting […]
The Ritual made me uncomfortable. From the opening pages to the final conclusion, a sense of wrongness pervades this story, stalking you as surely as some beast stalks the characters. This is a novel of […]
When I started reading Grady Hendrix’s We Sold Our Souls I did not expect to end up crying at the end. Something about the premise had me expecting more comedy and less searing insight into […]
I struggled with whether I ought to review this book for The Horror Syndicate or not. I know I started my review of Annihilation with a brief bit of musing on the meaning of horror, […]
Let me start by saying this book was sent to us for review. I tried not to let that influence my assessment. I wanted to like this book. I’m not a huge fan of zombies […]
Before I begin this review, let’s get something out of the way. If you think there is no place in fiction for real world concerns, for “politics”, or for notions of social justice, The Ballad […]
For more than four decades Stephen King’s name has been synonymous with American horror novels. In the last few years, he has begun to branch away from the genre, introducing elements of detective fiction science […]
I wanted to like The Chrysalis by Brendan Deneen. I really did. On the surface it has everything I love. A young couple, pushed by financial necessity, moves into a house with a bloody past. […]
Food of the Gods by Cassandra Khaw starts out strong, with a unique protagonist and a pantheon not often seen in English-language novels. Rupert Wong, the sort-of hero of the novel, is a chef. Specifically, […]
Jeffrey Ford’s A Natural History of Hell is that most delightful of things: a collection of short stories in which every story is good. I don’t know about you, but my experience with story collections […]
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