There's something in Leigh Harker's home. It lurks in the shadows of her bedroom watching her with round unblinking eyes, its booming footsteps filling the night air as it waits for Leigh to fall asleep. So begins The Haunting of Leigh Harker, the newest novel from prolific Australian author Darcy Coates. No stranger to hauntings [...]

The Guardian of Magic is the first entry in author Andrew Sharp's Stone Magic Series. I'll admit I had a fair amount of trepidation going into this one for a few reasons: the title is generic but the Amazon title line is absurdly overlong and descriptive, plus the cover is nigh identical to hordes of [...]

The Package is a psychological thriller from Germany's premier thriller author, Sebastian Fitzek. The book follows Emma, the sole survivor of a serial killer deemed the hairdresser for his fixation on shaving the heads of his victims. There's only one problem-- there's no definitive proof that Emma was assaulted by the killer (and yes, big [...]

The newest novel from Grady Hendrix is here and it doesn't disappoint! The Final Girl Support Group is equal parts a deconstruction of and a love letter to slasher movies-- there have been a few stabs at the subject matter in recent years, but this is the one that gets it right for me. Hendrix [...]

While the title may call to mind  Idris Elba's monologue from Pacific Rim, there's a whole lot more to Luke Melia's new anthology, Apocalypse Cancelled, which seeks to expand on a simple but ingenious concept-- what if the world was scheduled to end, and then simply didn't? This multi-author collection takes place in a shared [...]

The Shade of Highfall: The Tale of Shrew is the debut novel by fantasy writer Mark O'Dell. The book is one part traditional sword and sorcery and one part coming of age that centers on the titular Shrew as she navigates her new life as a member of Highfall's thieves' guild. The story begins in [...]

Smithy is the debut novel by Inkshares author and paranormal connoisseur Amanda Desiree. The novel is an epistolary record of an animal language acquisition study centered on the titular chimpanzee Smithy (or Webster, if you're feeling formal) and the students who are teaching him American Sign Language. The researchers and their ward have taken up [...]