7 Deeply Weird Sci-Fi & Fantasy Romances
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, a time for love, romance, and, for those of us not romantically inclined, weird…
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7 Impossible Fantasy Cities Worth the Visit
Modern cities are vast, wondrous, awe-inspiring things. The soaring heights, the play of light over the buildings, the constant energy…
8 Truly Terrifying Books of Asian Horror
This week, HBO debuts Folklore, an anthology series focusing solely on Asian horror. And while it feels reductive to lump so many…
The Best Horror Books of 2018
Another year is ending. The days grow shorter; the nights, darker. The weird noises two streets over are a little…
6 Ghost Stories to Read on a Cold Christmas Night
As pop songs go, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is a venerable seasonal classic—but what’s with that…
Alice Isn’t Dead Is a Surreal Supernatural Trip
Alice Isn’t Dead is podcaster-turned-author Joseph Fink’s adaptation of his same-named audio drama, but as a book, it offers a very…
Someone Like Me Takes an Honest Approach to Psychological Horror
As Liz weathers another assault by her abusive husband Marc, something seems to take control of her body, defending her…
5 New Horror Books for Dark October Nights
October is in full swing, delivering us a tide of pumpkins, terrifying lawn decorations, and frigid nights so cold and…
I Am Behind You Brings Disturbing Existential Horror into the Daylight
Four families on holiday at a campground wake up one morning to find the world around them replaced by an…
Time’s Children Is a Time Travel Fantasy with a Magical Twist
In Time’s Children, D.B. Jackson (Thieftaker, and many more novels written under the name David B. Coe) accomplishes the feat…
10 Years of Terror: 7 Standout Stories from The Best of the Best Horror of the Year
The Best Horror of the Year anthology series turned 10 this year, a decade of celebrating the darkest gems of the…
Salvation Is a Twisty Space Opera Thriller
Among space opera aficionados, Peter F. Hamilton is best known for the Commonwealth novels, a centuries-spanning sci-fi saga pitting utopian…
Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company Marks the Return of a Low Fantasy Legend
In 1984, in an effort to portray fantasy from the level of the military grunt, Glen Cook dreamed up the Black…
Drizzt Returns in Timeless, a Fast and Furious Fantasy
For 30 years, R.A. Salvatore has crafted a rich and wondrous history for the setting of the Forgotten Realms, a…
In Ahab’s Return, Stories Are the Great White Whale
Stories can change your life. Maybe they won’t, and maybe they shouldn’t (that is, after all, a lot to put on any…
8 Intriguing Dark Fantasy Noir Novels
The trappings of noir are nothing if not versatile. You just need a city—fantastical or not—with space for the moral…
The Grey Bastards: An Optimist’s View on a Grimdark World
The time is ripe for a book like The Grey Bastards. Jonathan French’s debut novel adopts the grim and gritty trappings…
Metamorphica Is Myth, Remixed
Metamorphica is presented as a series of interlinked stories from Greek myth, spanning the time from the birth of the…
The Cabin at the End of the World Is a Chilling Portrait of Everyday Evil
But rather than simply pit his human protagonists against a group of inhuman monsters, Tremblay uses the tight confines of…
6 Horror Books That Will Make You Think Twice About Riding the Subway
There’s just something off about subway tunnels—those dark channels deep beneath the city that seem to vanish off into the infinite…