Wednesday, July 29, 2020

What We're Reading #58

Let us help you find your new favorite book! Here are a few of our recently recommend reads.

The Kelping by Jan Stinchcomb

Doctor Craig Bo has everything: a perfect wife and children, a thriving dermatology practice, and a house in a lovely coastal town. Nobody is surprised when he is chosen to be the Sea King of Beachside in his hometown’s annual festival.

But after the festival Craig’s world turns upside down. Something starts growing on his skin. His son tells him a story about a sinister mermaid who lives in the attic of the local history museum. And his beautiful wife, Penelope, can no longer hide her dark connection to the sea.

As Craig grapples with his own secrets and misdeeds, he finally understands the woman he married and the plans she has for him.

Book 9 in the Rewind-or-Die series: imagine your local movie rental store back in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, remember all those fantastic covers. Remember taking those movies home and watching in awe as the stories unfolded in nasty rainbows of gore, remember the atmosphere and textures. Remember the blood.

Amazon | Goodreads

Alex’s Teaser Review

This is a quick read and it will grab your attention immediately… check it out!

Read Alex’s entire review at Goodreads.

The Apocalyptic Mannequin

The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich

Doomsday is here and the earth is suffering with each breath she takes. Whether it’s from the nuclear meltdown, the wrath of the Four Horsemen, a war with technology, or a consequence of our relationship with the planet, humanity is left buried and hiding, our bones exposed, our hearts beating somewhere in our freshly slit throats.

The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich is a collection that strips away civilization and throws readers into the lives of its survivors. The poems inside are undelivered letters, tear-soaked whispers, and unanswered prayers. They are every worry you’ve had when your electricity went out, and every pit that grew in your stomach watching the news at night. They are tragedy and trauma, but they are also grief and fear, fear of who–or what–lives inside us once everything is taken away.

These pages hold the teeth of monsters against the faded photographs of family and friends, and here, Wytovich is both plague doctor and midwife, both judge and jury, forever searching through severed limbs and exposed wires as she straddles the line evaluating what’s moral versus what’s necessary to survive.

What’s clear though, is that the world is burning and we don’t remember who we are.

So tell me: who will you become when it’s over?

Amazon | Goodreads

Jen’s Teaser Review

If you are looking for a recommendation on where to start reading poetry or are simply looking for another great collection to pick up, The Apocalyptic Mannequin is on my recommendations list. It’s a travesty that I’ve put off reading Wytovich’s poetry collections until now.

Read Jen’s entire review at Book Den.

Cirque Berserk by Jessica Guess

Cirque Berzerk by Jessica Guess

The summer of 1989 brought terror to the town of Shadows Creek, Florida in the form of a massacre at the local carnival, Cirque Berserk. One fateful night, a group of teens killed a dozen people then disappeared into thin air. No one knows why they did it, where they went, or even how many of them there were, but legend has it they still roam the abandoned carnival, looking for blood to spill.

Thirty years later, best friends, Sam and Rochelle, are in the midst of a boring senior trip when they learn about the infamous Cirque Berserk. Seeking one last adventure, they and their friends journey to the nearby Shadows Creek to see if the urban legends about Cirque Berserk are true. But waiting for them beyond the carnival gates is a night of brutality, bloodshed, and betrayal.

Will they make they make it out alive, or will the carnival’s past demons extinguish their futures?

Book 4 in the Rewind-or-Die series: imagine your local movie rental store back in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, remember all those fantastic covers. Remember taking those movies home and watching in awe as the stories unfolded in nasty rainbows of gore, remember the atmosphere and textures. Remember the blood.

Amazon | Goodreads

Emily’s Teaser Review

Cirque Berserk is a very fun slasher, and it’s exactly what I was hoping for. The storylines move between the 80s and present time, and it was cool to see how everything panned out.

Read Emily’s entire review at Goodreads.


Thank you for joining us today! We hope you found something to add to your tbr list. Please share your recent reads with us in the comments below.

If you are a LOHF writer and have a book you’d like us to consider for a review please visit our review submission page here.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team would like to congratulate all of the inaugural 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award recipients. Please join us in celebrating these amazing women and their outstanding works of horror fiction.

Best Collection

Winner: Little Paranoias, Sonora Taylor

Also nominated:

Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar
Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich
Out of Water, Sarah Read

Best Debut

Winner: The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling

Also nominated:

The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read
Little Darlings, Melanie Golding
Theme Music, T. Marie Vandelly

Best Poetry Collection

Winner: Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch

Also nominated:

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade
The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich

Best Novel

Winners: Bunny, Mona Awad and Without Condition, Sonora Taylor

Also nominated:

Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
River of Souls, T.L. Bodine
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher

Best Novella

Winner: To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger

Also nominated:

Dear Laura, Gemma Amor
The Ladderman, Angela Archer
The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper
Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt

Best Young Adult

Winner: Wilder Girls, Rory Power

Also nominated:

Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal
House of Salt and Sorrows,
Erin A. Craig
Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall

Short Fiction

Honorable Mentions:

‘Till Death Do Us Part, Peggy Christie (Dark Doorways)
A Song for Wounded Mouths, Kristi DeMeester (PseudoPod 641: Artemis Rising 5)
Jack-O-Lantern, Gabrielle Faust (#ScaryStories)
Sun Dogs, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
What Throat, Annie Neugebauer (PseudoPod 640: Artemis Rising 5)
Butterflies, Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds)
The Woman Next Door, Ha Seong-nan (Flowers of Mold)
Quadrapocalypse, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)
Weary Bones, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)

Monday, July 27, 2020

LOHF Award for Best Young Adult

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Young Adult.

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there’s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.

Published July 9th 2019 by Delacorte Press | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Rory Power, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Congratulations to Rory Power and the 2019 nominees for Best Young Adult:

Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal
House of Salt and Sorrows,
Erin A. Craig
Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall


We reached out to Rory for a few words, and here is what she had to say!

Thank you so much for this award! Ladies of Horror Fiction is so tireless and generous in its support – I’m so grateful to have been recognized by this organization. It’s an honor to share this nomination with Ann, Erin, and Kate, and this genre with so many incredible writers of marginalized genders who are contributing such fresh and powerful work. I can’t wait to read what’s next. Thank you again!

Friday, July 24, 2020

LOHF Award for Best Novella

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novella.

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts.

Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch together wings of her own and become one with the flock sends Andi down a twisted, unforgivable path. Once she understands the secrets the vultures conceal, she must decide between abandoning the birds of prey or risk turning her loved ones into nothing more than meals to be devoured.

Published July 29th 2019 by Unnerving | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Sara Tantlinger, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Congratulations to Sara Tantlinger and the 2019 nominees for Best Novella:

Dear Laura, Gemma Amor
The Ladderman, Angela Archer
The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper
Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt


We reached out to Sara for a few words, and here is what she had to say!

Sara Tantlinger Author Photo

I’m so honored to have my novella, To Be Devoured, recognized by the Ladies of Horror Fiction. Being nominated alongside the wonderful C.V. Hunt, Angela Archer, Gemma Amor, and S.H. Cooper is even more exciting because I admire all of them and their wonderful work so much. The Ladies of Horror Fiction are doing such excellent work in the genre, and it truly means the world to not only have their support, but to see the community come together as a whole and support one another. Thank you so very much to all who have bestowed this honor on my novella, and to everyone who has read, supported, and reviewed my work. I look forward to the future of the genre, and to the strong future of women in horror!


Stay tuned as we continue to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards!

Thursday, July 23, 2020

LOHF Award for Best Novel

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Novel. When this team was faced with a tie and the decision between having a tie-break or two winners, we went with two winners, of course!

Bunny by Mona Awad

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny,” and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon,” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus “Workshop” where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Published June 11th 2019 by Viking | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Mona Awad, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Without Condition by Sonora Taylor

Cara Vineyard lives a quiet life in rural North Carolina. She works for an emerging brewery, drives her truck late at night, and lives with her mother on a former pumpkin farm. Her mother is proud of her and keeps a wall displaying all of Cara’s accomplishments.

Cara isn’t so much proud as she is bored. She’s revitalized when she meets Jackson Price, a pharmacist in Raleigh. Every day they spend together, she falls for him a little more — which in turn makes her life more complicated. When Cara goes on her late-night drives, she often picks up men. Those men tend to die. And when Cara comes back to the farm, she brings a memento for her mother to add to her wall of accomplishments.

Cara’s mother loves her no matter what. But she doesn’t know if Jackson will feel the same — and she doesn’t want to find out.

Published February 12th 2019 | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Sonora Taylor, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Congratulations to Mona Awad, Sonora Taylor, and the 2019 nominees for Best Novel:

Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
River of Souls, T.L. Bodine
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher


We reached out to Mona and Sonora, and here is what they had to say!

Mona Awad

Sonora Taylor

This is an incredible honor. “Without Condition” is my second novel and I’ve been so thrilled with the response to it. I’d like to thank Erin al-Mehairi, who introduced me to the Ladies of Horror team and vouched for me and my book to various bloggers and reviewers. I also want to thank my editor, Evelyn Duffy, for her amazing work on this; as well as Doug Puller for his graphic design and illustration work. Thanks to my parents for their support, and thanks to my husband for his love and his presence in my life.


Stay tuned as we continue to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards!

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

LOHF Award for Best Debut

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Debut.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck—enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother—meant she’d get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane.

Instead, she got Em.

Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre’s body with drugs or withholding critical information to “ensure the smooth operation” of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre’s falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash—and a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . .

As Gyre descends, little inconsistencies—missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em’s motivations—drive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive—she must confront the ghosts in her own head.

But how come she can’t shake the feeling she’s being followed?

Published April 2nd 2019 by Harper Voyager | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Caitlin Starling, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Congratulations to Caitlin Starling and the 2019 nominees for Best Debut:

The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read
Little Darlings, Melanie Golding
Theme Music, T. Marie Vandelly


We reached out to Caitlin for a few words, and here is Caitlin!


Stay tuned as we continue to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards!

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

LOHF Award for Best Poetry Collection

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Poetry Collection.

Choking Back the Devil by Donna Lynch

Choking Back the Devil by Donna Lynch

Choking Back the Devil by Donna Lynch is an invocation, an ancient invitation that summons the darkness within and channels those lonely spirits looking for a host. It’s a collection that lives in the realm of ghosts and family curses, witchcraft and urban legends, and if you’re brave enough to peek behind the veil, the hauntings that permeate these pages will break seals and open doorways, cut throats and shatter mirrors.

You see, these poems are small drownings, all those subtle suffocations that live in that place between our ribs that swells with panic, incubates fear. Lynch shows her readers that sometimes our shadow selves–our secrets–are our sharpest weapons, the knives that rip through flesh, suture pacts with demons, cut deals with entities looking for more than a homecoming, something better, more intimate than family.

It’s about the masks we wear and the reflections we choose not to look at, and what’s most terrifying about the spells is these incantations show that we are the possessed, that we are our greatest monster, and if we look out of the corner of our eyes, sometimes–if we’ve damned ourselves enough–we can catch a glimpse of our own burnings, what monstrosities and mockeries we’re to become.

So cross yourselves and say your prayers. Because in this world, you are the witch and the hunter, the girl and the wolf.

Published July 17th 2019 by Raw Dog Screaming press | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Donna Lynch, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Congratulations to Donna Lynch and the 2019 nominees for Best Poetry Collection:

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade
The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich


We reached out to Donna for a few words, and here is what she had to say!


Stay tuned as we continue to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards!

Monday, July 20, 2020

LOHF Award for Best Collection

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Collection.

Little Paranoias by Sonora Taylor

Little Paranoias by Sonora Taylor

Is it a knock on the door, or a gust of wind? A trick of the light, or someone who’ll see what you’ve done?

Little Paranoias features twenty tales of the little things that drive our deepest fears. It tells the stories of terror and sorrow, lust at the end of the world and death as an unwanted second chance. It dives into the darkest corners of the minds of men, women, and children. It wanders into the forest and touches every corner of the capital. Everyone has something to fear — but after all, it’s those little paranoias that drive our day-to-day.

Published October 22nd 2019 | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Sonora Taylor, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.

Congratulations to Sonora Taylor and the 2019 nominees for Best Collection:

Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar
Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich
Out of Water, Sarah Read


We reached out to Sonora for a few words, and here is what she had to say!

Thank you so much! I love that these little stories have wiggled their way into so many readers’ brains and hearts.

Ooh, maybe I’ll write another creature feature next … Many thanks to Nina D’Arcangela and The Sirens Call for publishing several of these stories. Thanks to Lyn Worthen, who first accepted “Hearts are Just ‘Likes’” for Camden Park Press’s “Quoth the Raven.” Thanks to Sheri White, who introduced me to the Facebook groups that introduced me to these women, and who was my cheerleader early on. Thanks to Evelyn Duffy for her amazing editing work and to Doug Puller for his graphic design and illustration work. Thanks as always to my parents for their support, and to my husband for his love and his presence in my life.


Stay tuned as we continue to announce the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards!

Thursday, July 16, 2020

What We're Reading #57

We’ve been reading and reviewing and here’s our latest batch of recommendations. We hope you find your new favorite book!

We Wait by Megan Taylor

The wealthy Crawleys can’t abide a scandal, so when fifteen-year-old Maddie’s behaviour causes concern, she’s packed off to the family’s country estate, along with her best friend, Ellie. But while Maddie is resentful, Ellie is secretly thrilled. A whole summer at Greywater House, which she’s heard so much about – and with Maddie, who she adores…

But from the moment the girls arrive, it’s clear there’s more to the house and the family than Ellie could ever have imagined. Maddie’s aunt, Natalie, and her bedridden grandmother are far from welcoming – and something has been waiting at Greywaters, something that flits among the shadows and whispers in the night.

As the July heat rises and the girls’ relationship intensifies, the house’s ghosts can’t be contained, and it isn’t just Ellie who has reason to be afraid. Three generations of the Crawley family must face their secrets when past and present violently collide.

Amazon | Goodreads

Alex’s Teaser Review

A fun, yet serious, and great read! Highly recommended for fans of Susan Hill or Shirley Jackson – and Megan Taylor does her own little twist on what makes those aforementioned authors so loved as well. 4 stars from me!

Read Alex’s entire review on Goodreads.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

Amazon | Goodreads

Jen’s Teaser Review

I loved Ninth House. It was my first book to read by Leigh Bardugo. I have a couple of books from her other series that I’m really looking forward to getting started on. Tracy tells me Ninth House is going to have a sequel so I will be anxiously awaiting that one!

Read Jen’s entire review at Book Den.

Grief Is A False God by Gemma Amor Book cover

Grief Is A False God by Gemma Amor

Elijah Keene is trying to get by after the untimely passing of his beloved wife Jess. Overwhelmed as a single father, failing as a farmer, coming up short as a son; he struggles to distance himself from his grief. Elijah soon discovers that an unspeakable horror has arisen from the land which his family cultivated for generations. An entity of which his own father and deceased mother may have been all too aware. Grief is a False God is a chilling novelette by Gemma Amor, featuring vibrant illustrations from Anibal Santos.

Amazon | Goodreads

Emily’s Teaser Review

Check out Grief is a False God if you want an unsettling story that will also hurt your heart a bit.

Read Emily’s entire review at Goodreads.


Thank you for joining us today! We hope you found something to add to your tbr list. Please share your recent reads with us in the comments below.

If you are a LOHF writer and have a book you’d like us to consider for a review please visit our review submission page here.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Nominees and Honorable Mentions

Over the past two weeks, the Ladies of Horror Fiction team has been unveiling the nominees for the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards. Please join us in celebrating these amazing women and their outstanding works of horror fiction.

We are honored to present to you the entire list of nominees and honorable mentions:

Nominees

Best Collection

Collision: Stories, J.S. Breukelaar
Ghosts of You, Cathy Ulrich
Little Paranoias, Sonora Taylor
Out of Water, Sarah Read

Best Debut

The Bone Weaver’s Orchard, Sarah Read
Little Darlings, Melanie Golding
The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling
Theme Music, T. Marie Vandelly

Best Poetry Collection

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade
Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch
The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich

Best Novel

Bunny, Mona Awad
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
River of Souls, T.L. Bodine
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
Without Condition, Sonora Taylor

Best Novella

Dear Laura, Gemma Amor
The Ladderman, Angela Archer
The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper
Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt
To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger

Best Young Adult

Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal
House of Salt and Sorrows,
Erin A. Craig
Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall
Wilder Girls
, Rory Power

Honorable Mentions

Short Fiction

Till Death Do Us Part, Peggy Christie (Dark Doorways)
A Song for Wounded Mouths, Kristi DeMeester (PseudoPod 641: Artemis Rising 5)
Jack-O-Lantern, Gabrielle Faust (#ScaryStories)
Sun Dogs, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
What Throat, Annie Neugebauer (PseudoPod 640: Artemis Rising 5)
Butterflies, Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds)
The Woman Next Door, Ha Seong-nan (Flowers of Mold)
Quadrapocalypse, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)
Weary Bones, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)


Congratulations to all of the nominees and honorable mentions! The winners will be announced via the website beginning July 20th.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

LOHF Award Honorable Mentions in Short Fiction

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team read a lot of fantastic short fiction throughout 2019, and we wanted to give honorable mentions to the top 9.

We are pleased to present the 2019 Honorable Mentions in Short Fiction!

Till Death Do Us Part, Peggy Christie (Dark Doorways)
A Song for Wounded Mouths, Kristi DeMeester (PseudoPod 641: Artemis Rising 5)
Jack-O-Lantern, Gabrielle Faust (#ScaryStories)
Sun Dogs, Laura Mauro (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
What Throat, Annie Neugebauer (PseudoPod 640: Artemis Rising 5)
Butterflies, Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds)
The Woman Next Door, Ha Seong-nan (Flowers of Mold)
Quadrapocalypse, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)
Weary Bones, Sonora Taylor (Little Paranoias)


‘Till Death Do Us Part appeared in Peggy Christie’s collection Dark Doorways | Published April 25th 2019 by Dragon’s Roost Press

To learn more about Peggy Christie, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


PseudoPod 641: ARTEMIS RISING 5: A Song for Wounded Mouths is a PseudoPod original written by Kristi DeMeester | Released March 29 2019

To learn more about Kristi DeMeester, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Jack-O-Lantern by Gabrielle Faust was released as part of the #ScaryStories Twitter series | Published October 2019 by Gotham Ghostwriters

To learn more about Gabrielle Faust, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Sun Dogs appeared in Laura Mauro’s collection Sing Your Sadness Deep | Published August 6th 2019 by Undertow Publications

To learn more about Laura Mauro, visit their profile in the LOHF Directory.


PseudoPod 640: ARTEMIS RISING 5: What Throat is a PseudoPod original written by Annie Neugebauer | Released March 24, 2019

To learn more about Annie Neugebauer, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Butterflies appeared in Samanta Schweblin’s collection Mouthful of Birds | Published January 8th 2019 by Riverhead Books

To learn more about Samanta Schweblin, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Woman Next Door appeared in Ha Seong-nan’s collection Flowers of Mold | Published April 23rd 2019 by Open Letter

To learn more about Ha Seong-nan, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Quadrapocalypse and Weary Bones both appeared in Sonora Taylor’s collection Little Paranoias | Published October 22nd 2019

To learn more about Sonora Taylor, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Congratulations to all of the 2019 Honorable Mentions!

Monday, July 13, 2020

The LOHF Congratulates the Shirley Jackson Award Winners

The Shirley Jackson awards highlight the years outstanding achievement in the genres of psychological suspense, horror and dark fiction. The nominees are judged by authors, editors, critics and academics.


Novel: The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in.

Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party, a short fiction collection, and The Book of X, her debute novel. The Book of X was selected as a Best Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Thrillist, Vulture, and more, and was long-listed for 2020 The Believer Book Award and the 2020 California Independent Bookseller Alliance’s Golden Poppy Award.

This story sounds amazing!


Novella: Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma

Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin.

Uprooted from Bath by his father’s failures, Gideon Belman finds himself stranded on Ormeshadow farm, an ancient place of chalk and ash and shadow. The land crests the Orme, a buried, sleeping dragon that dreams resentment, jealousy, estrangement, death. Or so the folklore says. Growing up in a house that hates him, Gideon finds his only comforts in the land. Gideon will live or die by the Orme, as all his family has.

Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared venues such as InterzoneBlack Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor. She’s been anthologised in several of Ellen Datlow’s  Best Horror of the Year series and Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series, among other.  She’s also been on many Locus’ Recommended Reading Lists.  She is a Grand Judge for the Aeon Award, an annual writing competition run by Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of the Fantastic.

“Fabulous Beasts” was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Priya is a Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award winner,  and Locus Award finalist,  for “All the Fabulous Beasts”, a collection of her some of her work, available from Undertow Publications.

“Ormshadow” is her first novella and is available from Tor.

Toni and Jen have both read Ormeshadow and loved it. Click on their names to see their reviews.


Novelette: Luminous Body by Brooke Warra

Pregnancy, motherhood, and family through a cosmic body horror lens. An exceptionally personal story by Brooke Warra with cover art and two interior illustrations by her daughter Zoe Liegh.

Brooke Warra

Brooke Warra grew up in a deep, dark wood where she developed a taste for the weird and macabre. Her work has appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. She lives and writes with her children in the Pacific Northwest.

This was a limited run of 130 numbered copies; however, the coolest thing is there are two illustrations drawn by her daughter Zoe Leigh.


The LOHF also want to congratulate Short Fiction: Kali_Na by Indrapramit Das, Single-Author Collection: Song for the Unraveling World by Brian Evenson and Edited Anthology: The Twisted Book of Shadows edited by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore.


If you would like to watch the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards, they are viewable here.


If you have read any of the winners, let us know what you thought in the comments below!!

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Young Adult

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to present the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Nominees for Best Young Adult.

The nominees are:

Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal
House of Salt and Sorrows,
Erin A. Craig
Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall
Wilder Girls
, Rory Power


Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Five Midnights by Ann Davila Cardinal

Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates. Five nights of retribución.

If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other’s company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer, they’ll have to step into the shadows to see what’s lurking there—murderer, or monster?

Published June 4th 2019 by Tor Teen | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Ann Dávila Cardinal, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

House of Salt and Sorrow

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.

Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who—or what—are they really dancing with?

When Annaleigh’s involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it’s a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family—before it claims her next.

Published August 6th 2019 by Delacorte | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Erin A. Craig, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

 Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister–at all costs.

Once a year, the path appears in the forest and Lucy Gallows beckons. Who is brave enough to find her–and who won’t make it out of the woods?

It’s been exactly one year since Sara’s sister, Becca, disappeared, and high school life has far from settled back to normal. With her sister gone, Sara doesn’t know whether her former friends no longer like her…or are scared of her, and the days of eating alone at lunch have started to blend together. When a mysterious text message invites Sara and her estranged friends to “play the game” and find local ghost legend Lucy Gallows, Sara is sure this is the only way to find Becca–before she’s lost forever. And even though she’s hardly spoken with them for a year, Sara finds herself deep in the darkness of the forest, her friends–and their cameras–following her down the path. Together, they will have to draw on all of their strengths to survive. The road is rarely forgiving, and no one will be the same on the other side.

Published September 24th 2019 by Viking Books for Young Readers | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Kate Alice Marshall, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there’s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.

Published July 9th 2019 by Delacorte Press | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Rory Power, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Ladies of Horror Fiction Award winners will be announced later this month!

Friday, July 10, 2020

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Novella

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to present the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Nominees for Best Novella.

The nominees are:

Dear Laura, Gemma Amor
The Ladderman, Angela Archer
The Festering Ones, S.H. Cooper
Halloween Fiend, C.V. Hunt
To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger


Dear Laura by Gemma Amor

Dear Laura by Gemma Amor
Book cover featuring a hand holding two pulled teeth

Every year, on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the whereabouts of her missing friend Bobby, but there’s a catch: he’ll only tell her what he knows in exchange for something…personal.So begins Laura’s sordid relationship with her new penpal, built on a foundation of quid pro quo. Her quest for closure will push her to bizarre acts of humiliation and harm, yet no matter how hard she tries, she cannot escape her correspondent’s demands. The letters keep coming, and as time passes, they have a profound effect on Laura.From the author of Cruel Works of Nature comes a dark and twisted tale about obsession, guilt, and how far a person will go to put her ghosts to bed.

Published July 2nd 2019 | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Gemma Amor, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Ladderman by Angela Archer

The Ladder Man Book Angela Archer Book Cover

A rhyme and a game will summon him by name…

Buried in the walls of the Phoenix Hotel lies a dark and deadly past. After a hotel worker is brutally murdered, Detectives Golding and Turnbull arrive to head up the investigation.

Meanwhile, rumours of the legendary Ladderman spread. Rik Slater and his friends don’t take it too seriously…until his friends start dying.

Rik realises the legend is real and he will be the next victim. Terrified by his future, Rik has to decide whether to go it alone or trust the police. They’ve failed to help him before, will they be able to help him now?

Will anyone be able to stop the Ladderman?

If you enjoy real-life characters, bloody murders, and death lurking in the shadows, then this novella is right up your street.

Grab your copy of ‘The Ladderman’ and discover the bloody truth today.

Published May 30th 2019 by TYG Publishing | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Angela Archer, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Festering Ones by S.H. Cooper

The Festering Ones by S.H. Cooper

A monster lurking in the mountain.

A mysterious cult seeking a doorway.

An otherworldly evil waiting to be unleashed.

Faith York was a young girl when she saw her father dragged into the ground by a spider-armed woman, never to be seen again. Twenty years later, the events of that day continue to haunt her, and her need for answers has only grown stronger with time. After her estranged mother’s death forces her to return home, old wounds are reopened and Faith finally decides to face her demons. What started as a search for closure soon pits her against a shadowy cult known as The Gathered and the eldritch beings they worship. With reality becoming more blurred by the day and the thousand eyes of an alien deity fixed on her, Faith must decide if the dark secrets of White Crow Mountain are really worth losing herself over.

Published October 4th 2019 | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about S.H. Cooper, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Halloween Fiend by C.V. Hunt

Halloween Fiend by CV Hunt

Strang isn’t the small, quaint town it appears to be. It’s haunted every night by a creature the townsfolk refer to as Halloween. Once the sun sets each day, Halloween emerges to collect its treats: a small, live offering from each household. The residents comply because no one wants to be the target of Halloween’s tricks. But the nightmare of residing in Strang is nothing compared to the yearly ritual Halloween demands of the citizens on All Hallows’ Eve.

Published February 16th 2019 by Grindhouse Press | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about C.V. Hunt, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts.

Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch together wings of her own and become one with the flock sends Andi down a twisted, unforgivable path. Once she understands the secrets the vultures conceal, she must decide between abandoning the birds of prey or risk turning her loved ones into nothing more than meals to be devoured.

Published July 29th 2019 by Unnerving | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Sara Tantlinger, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Ladies of Horror Fiction Award winners will be announced later this month!

Thursday, July 9, 2020

LOHF Award Nominees for Best Novel

The Ladies of Horror Fiction team is pleased to present the 2019 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Nominees for Best Novel.

The nominees are:

Bunny, Mona Awad
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
River of Souls, T.L. Bodine
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
Without Condition, Sonora Taylor

Bunny by Mona Awad

Bunny by Mona Awad

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny,” and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled “Smut Salon,” and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus “Workshop” where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Published June 11th 2019 by Viking | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Mona Awad, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

Published October 8th 2019 by Flatiron Books | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Leigh Bardugo, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


River of Souls by T.L. Bodine

River of Souls by T.L. Bodine

Undeath is a manageable condition.

That’s what the media says, anyway: with the help of the miracle life-extension drug, Lazarus, the Undead can retain their humanity and live normal, happy lives. Without it, they become violent, mindless walking corpses.

Davin Montoya was eager to believe all of that. Forced to drop out of college to take care of his teenage sister, Zoe, after their father drank himself to death, he was more than happy to sign the no-good alcoholic over to the government’s Lazarus House for treatment. That was one less thing for him to worry about.

Until an accident left him joining the ranks of the freshly deceased himself.

Now, keeping his death a secret is the only way to keep his sister out of foster care. But to do so, he must venture into the underground society of Unregistered Undead – a dangerous world of drug deals and government resistance. But when their access to Lazarus begins to run dry, the truth starts to unravel…and it’s not what anyone expected.

Published August 23rd 2019 by Trepidatio Publishing | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about T.L. Bodine, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

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 house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?

Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.

Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.

From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher.

Published October 1st 2019 by Gallery / Saga Press | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about T. Kingfisher, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


Without Condition by Sonora Taylor

Without Condition by Sonora Taylor Book Cover

Cara Vineyard lives a quiet life in rural North Carolina. She works for an emerging brewery, drives her truck late at night, and lives with her mother on a former pumpkin farm. Her mother is proud of her and keeps a wall displaying all of Cara’s accomplishments.

Cara isn’t so much proud as she is bored. She’s revitalized when she meets Jackson Price, a pharmacist in Raleigh. Every day they spend together, she falls for him a little more — which in turn makes her life more complicated. When Cara goes on her late-night drives, she often picks up men. Those men tend to die. And when Cara comes back to the farm, she brings a memento for her mother to add to her wall of accomplishments.

Cara’s mother loves her no matter what. But she doesn’t know if Jackson will feel the same — and she doesn’t want to find out.

Published February 12th 2019 | Amazon | Goodreads

To learn more about Sonora Taylor, visit her profile in the LOHF Directory.


The Ladies of Horror Fiction Award winners will be announced later this month!

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

What We're Reading #56

Here’s a new batch of review link-ups of recent reads recommended by the Ladies of Horror Fiction! We hope you find your new favorite book ♥

Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly

Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly

An utterly propulsive and unpredictable psychological thriller from stunning new talent T. Marie Vandelly

For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it, but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was left alive, infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter.

Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family she can’t remember, so when her childhood home goes up for sale, Dixie sets aside all reason and moves in, re-creating a macabre decor with her family’s salvaged furniture. But as the ghosts of her family seemingly begin to take up residence in the home that was once theirs, Dixie starts to question her own sanity and wonders if the evil force menacing her is that of her father, or a demon of her own making.

In order to make sense of her present, Dixie becomes determined to unravel the truth of her past and seeks out the detective who originally investigated the murders. But the more she learns, the more she opens up the uncomfortable possibility that the sins of her father may belong to another, and, perhaps most tragically, to Dixie herself. As bodies begin to pile up around her, Dixie must find a way to expose the lunacy behind her family’s massacre and redeem what little remains of her soul. 

Amazon | Goodreads

Laurie’s Teaser Review

Theme Music is my kind of book. Admittedly, my kind of book changes with the wind but today my kind of book is snarky and bloody and emotional and a rollercoaster of “what the hell is happening here?!!”

Read Laurie’s entire review at Bark at the Ghouls.


A Collection of Dreamscapes poetry by Christina Sng

A Collection of Dreamscapes by Christina Sng is an exploration of the darkness inside us, the shadow-self that screams and begs, forever fighting to claw itself out. It’s a siren song of transformation, an uncovered diary that bleeds fairy tales and dystopias, and it reads like a grimoire full of spells and curses that bring monsters and madmen to life.

Between these pages, readers will meet women who hide behind the taste of poisoned apples, who set themselves on fire, who weep at riverbanks, the taste of freedom too much to swallow, too heavy to bear. They will be whisked away to faraway lands and unimaginable worlds, the drip of fog-soaked dreams a steady flow down their throats while they choke on betrayal and bathe in the waters of tears twice cried.

Sng’s poems are a blend of dark fantasy and science fiction, a changeling’s whisper and an ogre’s cry. They are both subtle and violent, and they weave themes of empowerment and strength through stars and earthquakes, forcing us to push away the rubble and look at what we’ve had to do to survive. They are the sacrifice in the forest and the haunting in the house, every gasp and ancient fear a reflection of the violence we’ve had to bury deep inside ourselves, all those battle cries and reimagined dreams we desperately try to forget. Here, Sng marries blood and magic, forever walking hand-in-hand with scar and ash, their imprints both a nightmare and a blessing, a dream and the truth.

Swallow them carefully. Once they’re inside you, there’s no getting them out. 

Amazon | Goodreads

Alex’s Teaser Review

I highly recommend this dark and enchanting collection of work from Christina Sng. You will really be moved by the way she puts these poems and stories together. From myths of death and rebirth to monsters and fairy tales, this is a solid collection!

Read Alex’s entire review at Goodreads.

Emily’s Teaser Review

A Collection of Dreamscapes is the second poetry collection I’ve read by Christina Sng, and both were enjoyable reads! I love that some of the poems were connected in this book, and it was fun to see everything woven together throughout the collection.

Read Emily’s entire review at Goodreads.

From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world’s most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic.

Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the Titanic from the moment they set sail. The Titanic‘s passengers expected to enjoy an experience befitting the much-heralded ship’s maiden voyage, but instead, amid mysterious disappearances and sudden deaths, find themselves in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone. While some of the guests and crew shrug off strange occurrences, several–including maid Annie Hebbley, guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim–are convinced there’s something more sinister going on. And then disaster strikes.

Years later, Annie, having survived that fateful night, has attempted to put her life back together by going to work as a nurse on the sixth sailing of the Britannic, newly refitted as a hospital ship to support British forces fighting World War I. When she happens across an unconscious Mark, now a soldier, she is at first thrilled and relieved to learn that he too survived the tragic night four years earlier. But soon his presence awakens deep-buried feelings and secrets, forcing her to reckon with the demons of her past–as they both discover that the terror may not yet be over.

Featuring an ensemble cast of characters and effortlessly combining the supernatural with the height of historical disaster, The Deep is an exploration of love and destiny, desire and innocence, and, above all, a quest to understand how our choices can lead us inexorably toward our doom.

Amazon | Goodreads

Audra’s Teaser Review

Alma Katsu is certainly a talented weaver of words, and both this and The Hunger are compulsively readable. She is also an assiduous researcher, which is clear from not only the weaving in of real-life details and people, but in how the book creates a sense of a larger world, a broader picture; it expands off the page in the best way.

Read Audra’s entire review at Goodreads.

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