Violet – Scott Thomas

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     In the lineage of Peter Straub’s Julia, Scott Thomas’ Violet is the disturbing tale of a woman haunted by her long-abandoned imaginary friend. For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But...

The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s...

The Girl Who Hid in the Trees – Steve Stred

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     Something lurks just beyond. Centuries ago a heinous act created a ripple that still haunts the residents to this very day. Now the kids who reside near McConnell’s Forest live forever in fear. Jason lost his brother when he...

The Sorrows – Jonathan Janz

MY RATING☆☆ SYNOPSIS     Ben Shadeland and Eddie Blaze are the hottest young music composers in Hollywood. Fresh off an Oscar nomination, they’ve just been chosen to score a big-budget horror movie by Lee Stanley, the most demanding director in film....

Ritual by Steve Stred

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS   Meet Brad. A quiet, hardworking man who goes about his daily routine with joy. He works as a telemarketer, trying this best to sell poorly made, over-priced products to the unsuspecting people on the other end of the phone. Brad...

They Kill by Tim Waggoner

MY RATING☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS  What are you willing to do, what are you willing to become, to save someone you love? On the one-year anniversary of his death in a terrible car accident, Sierra Sowell’s brother Jeffrey is resurrected by a mysterious man known only as...

In The Scrape – James Newman & Mark Steensland

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS   Most kids dream about a new bike, a pair of top-dollar sneakers endorsed by their favorite athlete, or that totally awesome videogame everyone’s raving about. But thirteen-year-old Jake and his little brother Matthew want nothing more...

Dust Devils – Jonathan Janz

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS   Cody wants to regain his self-respect. Willet just wants his father’s leg back. Both of them are tracking a band of traveling actors who leave carnage and heartbreak in their wake. The dust devils. When the actors came to town and...

Growing Things – Paul Tremblay

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS   A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts. From global catastrophe to the demons inside...

One by One – D.W. Gillespie

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS   The Easton family has just moved into their new fixer-upper, a beautiful old house that they bought at a steal, and Alice, the youngest of the family, is excited to explore the strange, new place. Her excitement turns to growing dread as...