A Family Saga with Bones in the Cellar: Melanie Tem’s Wilding

In a certain part of Denver, there is a courtyard that holds four houses. Two of them are empty now, but when they were first built, they belonged to a quartet of sisters who had done plenty of traveling over their surprisingly long lifetimes: The sisters had come most recently from wooded, green, and rainy […]

No Hay Luz En Oscuro: Romina Garber’s Castle of the Cursed

When Estela lost her parents in a freak, unexplained accident aboard a New York subway, she was thrown into a system that pretended to care, but was ultimately powerless to do anything to help her. She was an undocumented immigrant, after all, because her father apparently never filed the proper paperwork to change their status. […]

You Are What You Dream: Underworld (1985)

Roy Bain (Larry Lamb) would rather spend his days painting than getting involved with old, bad influences like gangster-turned-industrialist Motherskille (Steven Berkoff). However, when Bain’s old flame Nicole (Nicola Cowper) is kidnapped by persons unknown, Motherskille hires the former gumshoe to take one last case. The investigation leads Bain to Pepperdine (Ingrid PItt) an exclusive […]

Parable of the Bloodsucker: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling

When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]

Dueling With Duality: The Witch (1966)

When Sergio Logan (Richard Johnson) spots the old woman following him around town, he’s intrigued instead of frightened. She might be crazy, but how much harm can she be? She’s little more than a joke to share with his current girlfriends. Sergio is a player, thinks he knows the score, so when he finds the […]

Dude, Synthetic Blood Sucks: Sundown (1989)

In the gorgeous wastes of John Ford country, amongst the mesas and buttes not far from Moab, Utah, there’s a little speck on some old maps called Purgatory. You don’t see the town on new maps, alas. Once it was a copper town, but when that boom faded, it dried up under the relentless sunshine. […]

Not One of Us: Quicksilver

Quinn Quicksilver has had a strange life. He was found in a basinet by a trio of laborers when he was just a few days old. They handed him over to a local orphanage, where Quinn was raised by nuns. He’s an adult now, a writer for Arizona! magazine. However, as curious as his life […]

Bent and Uncanny: Dean Koontz’s The Other Emily

For his third novel length release after jumping ship to Amazon.com’s Thomas & Mercer imprint, bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a story about a grieving man encountering strange circumstances when a young woman impossibly re-enters his life and the convicted serial killer he’s been communicating with decides to finally reveal one of his biggest secrets. […]

Quest for the Runestones: Warlock: The Armageddon

Back in the halcyon days of yore, one force stood between the light and the darkness. The Druids had six magical stones they employed to keep evil from being born into this world, but the magical trinkets have since become lost. Every six hundred years, the dark powers align for a few days and a […]

Choose Your Side, Kira: Seressia Glass’ Shadow Fall

In the first book of her (so far) three volume series, Shadow Blade, we met Kira Solomon as a Shadowchaser, a warrior of the light and servant to the Egyptian goddess of truth Ma’at. Her mother Balm, the Lady of Light, trained, empowered, and charged Kira with hounding the rogue elements of Shadow and dispatching […]

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