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Book Reviews

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  • Horror Book Review: Listen to Your Sister (2025)

    Supernatural elements meet real-life family sacrifices in this compelling must-read 2025 release.

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  • Book Review: The Demon of Unrest… (Erik Larson, 2024)

    My so-so review of Erik Larson’s 2024 work, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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  • Book Review: 8114 (Joshua Hull, Aug 2025)

    “Hull delivers in this page-turning spookfest.” (a four-star review of Joshua Hull’s forthcoming _8114_)

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  • Book Review: American Scary (2024)

    “About a hundred pages in, I realized I needed my pen for margin notes, and from there through to the end some 310 pages later, I felt compelled to track names of books, identifications of concepts and throughlines, and contemporary authors whose work I want to follow.” 4 Star Review #bookreview #nonfictionreview #horrornonfiction #culturalhistory #popculture…

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  • Review — Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread (Leila Taylor, 2025)

    “Part analysis, part polemic, and part memoir, _Sick_Houses_ balances as a (haunted?) stool on three legs, and Leila Taylor’s work is worth your attention.”

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  • Book review: House of Last Resort (Christopher Golden, 2024)

    A four-star review of Christopher Golden’s “The House of Last Resort”. High praise for Golden’s rendering of a loving relationship in a modern horror story. #horror #bookreview #recommendedreads #books #reading #horrorbook #booktok #bookstagram #booksky

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  • The Stand: a review, 35 years late…

    A 35-year-late review of Stephen King’s The Stand… #reading #bookreview #book #review #horror #horrorbooks #stephenking

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  • Horror Review: Ghostwritten (Malfi, 2022)

    “Each of the four tales comprising this eerie, mind-bendy collection contributes a unique element of horror in a shared universe—and featuring, in one way or another, a deadly book or story.” #horror #books #bookreview #bookrecs #bookrecommendation #horrorstories

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  • Action-Thriller Review: Rage (Jonathan Maberry, 2019)

    “Mayberry is a deft hand—an operator almost as skilled as his erstwhile titular character, Joe Ledger. And if you’ve got some of the same base urges as I […] Rage is for you.”

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  • Nonfiction Review — Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (2024)

    “Be better than NASA and Thiokol.” My five-star review of Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (2024)

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