Not the Only One to Get Confused by Light and Shadow and Reflection: Melanie Tem’s The Tides

Rebecca is the administrator for The Tides, a retirement home. The place takes its name from the lake it was built alongside, some years ago. The lake has since been filled in (though water does tend to collect after a rainstorm), but of late a new, unseen force is pulling at the residents. It all […]

Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer … You Had a Busy Day Today: Abigail (2024)

A team of six professionals undertake a mission to kidnap a young girl (codenamed Tiny Dancer) from her fancy house and then babysit her for 24 hours. By then, her rich daddy should have coughed up $50 million for her safe return. None of the crooks knows one another, each has a given name taken […]

All Stories Are Ghost Stories: Gabino Iglesias’ House of Bone and Rain

Gabe and his best friends are tight as brothers. They came up together through school, banded together under a simple macho credo: Anyone who messes with one of them messes with all of them. So, if Tavo gets flack for being gay, his brothers have his back. If Xavier inadvertently winds up on the wrong […]

Where the Dead and the Rats Are Always Waiting: Christopher Golden’s The House of Last Resort

When Tommy and Kate got the urge to move, they were not merely interested in a different zip code, they were looking for new lives in a place that was more relaxed and picturesque than what they’d become accustomed to in Boston. They moved away from Massachusetts altogether, leaving behind their circle of friends and […]

Seven Rules of Survival: When Evil Lurks (2023)

It all starts with gunfire in the woods in the middle of the night. Brothers Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) and Julio (Demián Salomón) hear them, realize they are not hunters—the regularity suggests a revolver, not a rifle—but something else. They consider going out but decide against it—the night is dark and full of terrors, after all. […]

This is Halloween, This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween: Christopher Golden’s All Hallows

Halloween day and night, circa 1984, are the subject of Christopher Golden’s emotionally honest storytelling. During the daylight hours, Tony Barbosa and his daughter Chloe are putting together the evening’s Haunted Woods tour, a yearly tradition that finds people taking a spooky tour of their wooded grounds. As this is sadly seeing its last year, […]

We Are All Beholden to Jason: The Legacy (1979)

When Margaret Walsh (Katherine Ross) gets a job offer across the pond for work that’s unclear and an employer that’s no clearer, she’s ecstatic. It’s $50,000 after all, and a chance for her and her lover Pete Danner (Sam Elliott) to take a trip, see some sights in the ten days prior to the work. […]

Grow, Grow, Grow: Blood Flower (2022)

Young Iqbal (Idan Aedan) does not want to go chasing ghosts with his family on that terrible night. He’s seen too many ill omens to be comfortable. However, as his mother is the one with the real, known powers and has not shared these premonitions, his father Norman (Bront Palarea) does not see Iqbal’s concerns […]

Going Viral: The Harbinger (2022)

When Monique (Gabby Beans) gets a call from her college friend Mavis (Emily Davis), it’s urgent, life or death matters. Monique once promised to be there if Mavis ever needed her, but keeping that promise is complicated by the presence of a somewhat unknown and dangerous viral outbreak crippling the nation and world. Monique and […]

Have a Little Faith: Ramsey Campbell’s The Hungry Moon

Typically, summer brings hikers and tourists to the sleepy town of Moonwell. This year, someone else has come and his presence will make a mark upon the town, transforming expectations and unleashing old, buried guilts … as well as horrors. Godwin Mann is an American evangelist on walkabout in England. He’s made a habit of […]

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