While I enjoyed John Esposito's "The Fearsome Foursome", the first volume of Disney Press's Tales from the Haunted Mansion, I must say that my daughteWhile I enjoyed John Esposito's "The Fearsome Foursome", the first volume of Disney Press's Tales from the Haunted Mansion, I must say that my daughter (10, going on 11 in a month) is closer to the reading demographic than I am, and she didn't finish because parts of it were "too scary" for her.
Every kid is different when it comes to what scares them. Basically, I found this series to be about as scary as some of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books. There are a few jump scares, but the gore is kept to a minimum.
The book is basically four short stories told by The Librarian (a Crypt-Keeper wannabe) about the four protagonists: a group of middle-schoolers who try to out-scare each other with horror stories.
Fans of Goosebumps and Tales From the Crypt will enjoy these middle-reader stories.
(Unless they are a little more sensitive, like my daughter, and find it "too scary"...)...more
R.L. Stine is a ten times better writer than James Patterson. Don't believe me? Read "Missing", the fourth book in Stine's horror series for young aduR.L. Stine is a ten times better writer than James Patterson. Don't believe me? Read "Missing", the fourth book in Stine's horror series for young adults, Fear Street, published in the late-'80s. It is more suspenseful, exciting, and believable than any of the crap books Patterson publishes. Plus, Stine wrote---and still writes, I'm sure---his own books.
The plot: Mark and Cara's parents don't come home from work one night. They are still missing the next day. The phone is dead. Roger, the college student boarder who lives in the attic apartment is acting strange. There's a white van parked continuously down the street. And what's up with the little white monkey head medallion that the kids find in their parent's bed?
What the hell is going on?
I won't tell you. Just find a copy of this book and read it.
One of the more fun, freaky, and surprisingly highbrow slasher series in the past several years is the unlikely-titled "Clown in a Cornfield" series bOne of the more fun, freaky, and surprisingly highbrow slasher series in the past several years is the unlikely-titled "Clown in a Cornfield" series by Adam Cesare. The third in the series, "Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo", was published two months ago. The inevitable movie is currently in production.
In case you haven't been following this series, it is probably one of the most brutal and hilarious anti-Trump diatribes disguised as horror fiction that I have encountered.
Of course, it's more than that, and, to be fair, the name "Donald Trump" never appears once in the books. It doesn't have to, as the allusions are pretty obvious.
Quinn Maybrook is the "final girl" survivor of the first book's massacre perpetrated by small-minded small-town followers of Arthur Hill, a rich asshole who feels that liberal elitism (and especially the children of liberal elites) are destroying the very foundation of our traditional female-repressing, immigrant-hating, gay-bashing, gun-loving, and Christian nation. Solution? Round them up and kill them. (Cesare makes it clear that this is by no means an original American solution. It's merely history repeating itself. Again.)
In the second book, social media and a slew of conspiracy-theory-driven online nutsos have flipped the script, claiming the mass killing of teenagers in Kettle Springs, Missourri in 2020 was a hoax, replete with actors and deep fakes. Quinn has gradually become a household name among these Internet idiots, as well as the new face of the enemy.
In this third book, Quinn is on her way back home to Kettle Springs---not to be reunited with loved ones but to face a new, weirder threat. Apparently, someone is resurrecting Arthur Hill's mad worldviews and turning the townspeople into a Frendo-worshipping cult.
As is typical with the third installment of any good slasher series, "CIAC3" boasts a lot more blood and guts than the first two books combined. It's also got a lot more caustic socio-political criticism; criticism that isn't afraid to rip on the Right and Left equally. If it's possible to be both "woke" and "anti-woke" simultaneously, then this book succeeds....more
A fun little Halloween treat, Mason Coile's short sci-fi horror novel "W1ll1am" is a nasty little mash-up of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia A fun little Halloween treat, Mason Coile's short sci-fi horror novel "W1ll1am" is a nasty little mash-up of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and Dean Koontz's "Demon Seed".
And, for people born in the 21st century who won't get those references at all, it's basically a dysfunctional marriage drama with the added horror of killer robotic A.I. (Think "American Beauty" meets "Ex Machina".)
That's all I'm saying about this book, as the less you know going in, the better.
A shipping container in a Virginia shipyard contains a dead body. Painted inside are the words "Loup garou", which is French for "werewolf". Soon afteA shipping container in a Virginia shipyard contains a dead body. Painted inside are the words "Loup garou", which is French for "werewolf". Soon after, brutal---almost inhuman---attacks on women are happening in Richmond.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, as always, has her work cut out for her. Making her job more difficult is the fact that someone is hacking her computer system and a new police chief apparently has it in for her and her long-term friend and investigator, Detective Pete Marino.
Soon after the discovery of the body, she receives a black notice. (In police parlance, a "black notice" is a notification from Interpol (international police) to all police in all countries inquiring about unidentified bodies.) Along with that is an enigmatic request to come to Paris to speak with a forensic expert that claims to know her, but Kay has no memory of ever meeting her. Curiouser and curiouser.
Patricia Cornwell's tenth book in the Scarpetta series, "Black Notice", is the weirdest and most gruesome book in the series thus far. Another fast-paced psychological thriller from one of my new favorite authors....more
I've been a bad Dean Koontz fan. Maybe you can relate.
Koontz used to be an author I read, and loved, with some regularity. It helped that he was proliI've been a bad Dean Koontz fan. Maybe you can relate.
Koontz used to be an author I read, and loved, with some regularity. It helped that he was prolific, and I never seemed to run out of Koontz books to read, there were so many of them. One time, I even went to a Borders Books (remember that place?) and bought an entire shelf of his paperbacks (roughly 20 or so) and proceeded to read them all within about a week. I may have skipped a meal or two.
Then, for no discernible reason that I can muster, I basically stopped reading him. Like, cold turkey. That was over 20 years ago.
Like I said: I'm a bad fan. Because the truth is, I am a fan. I never stopped actually liking his books. In fact, a few of them---"Watchers", "Phantoms", and "Lightning", to name just a few---still hold an important place in my heart as fond memories of my tween/early-teen years. Koontz was definitely up there with authors like Stephen King and Peter Straub that were heavily influential in my love for the horror genre.
So, anyway, it's been a while.
I picked up "Odd Thomas", partly arbitrarily and partly because certain people over the years have told me that it's a decent series with quirky, likable characters (typical of Koontz), minus a lovable dog (atypical of Koontz). I read it.
I loved it. Like the best of Koontz's work, it's engaging, suspenseful, dramatic, and even moving. I'm not ashamed to say that this one jerked a few tears out of me. The ending will give you the deep feels, so have a box of tissues handy.
Without giving away too much, the novel follows a young line-cook who has the supernatural ability to see dead people. Imagine the kid from "The Sixth Sense" after years of being able to come to terms with his power and using it for good, like helping the wayward spirits to go into the light and helping to stop killers from killing again.
Odd (which is actually his name, not just an adjective) lives quietly in a small California town. He has a beautiful girlfriend (his long-term high school sweetheart), a job he likes, and a town full of quirky and likable friends and neighbors. He actually likes his life, despite a childhood that involved an absent father and an affectionless mother. Plus, he gets to hang out with ghosts, some of whom---like Elvis---like to linger on Earth for no other reason than because they're in no rush to depart to the Beyond.
Every once in a while, though, he has glimpses of horrible things, glimpses of a possible future involving death and heartache, and only he alone can (possibly) stop it.
I loved this book, and it reminded me of why I loved to read Koontz and why I should get back into reading more of his books... ...more
The six students in the Nature Club are stoked to go on an overnight camping trip on Fear Island, but when the only adult chaperone is called away on The six students in the Nature Club are stoked to go on an overnight camping trip on Fear Island, but when the only adult chaperone is called away on a family emergency for the weekend, it looks like the camping trip is cancelled.
Then again, who needs adult chaperones, right?
The third book in R.L. Stine's late-80s young adult horror series Fear Street, "The Overnight" is a decent enough thriller. Somewhat predictable, more than a bit cheesy, Stine's novel still delivers a few decent jump scares and plot twists to keep readers engaged.
It probably helps if you're a young reader who hasn't read a lot of other more sophisticated adult thrillers. Also, it may help if you are still living in the '80s....more
A wonderful debut young adult novel by Wendy Parris, "Field of Screams" is a creepy (but not too creepy) coming-of-age ghost story about a young girl A wonderful debut young adult novel by Wendy Parris, "Field of Screams" is a creepy (but not too creepy) coming-of-age ghost story about a young girl who is forced to spend a summer in Iowa. (The horror!--- No offense to Iowans.) To pass the time, she visits an old abandoned farm house surrounded by cornfields, which, she discovers, is haunted. And not with baseball players.
This book is targeted for middle-school readers, although it can be enjoyed by adults as well. Pretty tame in terms of jump scares and paranormal threats, the book is more of a mystery, with a surprising amount of feels involving grief (loss of a parent, loss of a sibling, and the loss of a child) and discovering the meaning of true friendship....more
Don't let the target demographic---tweens/middle school readers---fool you: Suzanne Young's new novel, "What Stays Buried", is a heart-pounding, suspeDon't let the target demographic---tweens/middle school readers---fool you: Suzanne Young's new novel, "What Stays Buried", is a heart-pounding, suspenseful supernatural/horror thriller that would make Stephen King proud.
Calista Wynn is a clairvoyant in a family of clairvoyants. Unfortunately, like all the members of her family, she only has use of her powers until the age of thirteen. Calista is twelve, weeks away from turning thirteen.
Seeing dead people is one of her powers. Ghosts come to her when they need help, or if they are lonely and just looking to talk to someone living. Lately, her power has taken on a special importance.
Three boys have mysteriously disappeared from the small town where Calista lives. She has seen the ghosts of two of them. An evil entity known as the Tall Lady seems to be behind the disappearances.
With the help of the ghosts of her grandmother and father, her living Aunt Freya, and her very living (and cute) classmate Wyland, Calista must battle an ancient enemy that has threatened the town for decades.
A lot of good jump-scares, an atmospheric sense of dread, and some tear-jerking moments make this a fun, spooky Halloween read for kids of all ages.
Within the horror genre, Robert Wilson may not be a familiar household name. Part of this is due to his infrequent output. Unlike Stephen King or DeanWithin the horror genre, Robert Wilson may not be a familiar household name. Part of this is due to his infrequent output. Unlike Stephen King or Dean Koontz, Wilson appears to publish a book every five years or so, and lately they have been small-print publishers. In any case, his writing is superb, and he tells a good horror story. I read this back in 2013. Check him out if you are looking for something outside of the mainstream...
Robert C. Wilson loves fire.
It's obvious in prose like this: "The fire! It was energy in its most primal state, an uncontrolled expulsion of heat and color and noise. It lashed upward with spikes of flame in an unsteady display that flickered and fluttered and flitted back and forth with the randomness of frantic motion. The quickly changing pattern of bright colors and deep shadow, the nervous, flicking quality of its aurora, disturbed the air, creating its own waves of energy, of tension, of trembling movement..."
Purple? Slightly, perhaps. It's still beautiful writing, I have to give him that. Unfortunately, he blathers on about fire and its permutations and movements and colors and ferocity and beauty for pages and pages until it gets fairly tedious.
Amidst all of the colorful, and mostly superfluous, detail, Wilson has written a pretty good horror story in his novel "Second Fire" about an ancient prehistoric evil supernatural force that has been resurrected in upper Michigan as a result of an archaeological dig. Dr. Christopher Fielding, the heroic archaeologist at the heart of the story, is trying to find a way to mediate between his scientific backers and representatives of the Ojibwe tribe, who see his dig as just another form of grave robbing.
The court has appointed the Ojibwe representative, Dr. Jean Shawsehquay, a Wyandotte Indian from out west, to work with Dr. Fielding. She is reluctant to do so, but the first night she visits the dig site, she and Dr. Fielding discover a cave filled with human bones that appear to be centuries old and badly burned. Something inexplicable also occurs in the cave, something that Dr. Fielding can not explain scientifically, but whatever it is has left its mark on Dr. Shawshequay.
Soon after, mysterious deaths by fire occur. The first is a hunter. The second is a family camping in a nearby cabin. All of them are victims of what appear to be a purposeful, high-intensity fire, like a flamethrower, which leads police to suspect murder. Suspicions lead them to a renegade group of Ojibwe youths that police have branded a terrorist organization. Fielding and Shawshequay gradually begin to realize that something more sinister and ancient is at work.
Wilson's novel is above-average for its genre, mainly in its writing, which is superb. Other than a tendency to use excessive description, Wilson has fashioned a taut supernatural thriller in the vein of early Stephen King and Dan Simmons. It's a shame he hasn't garnered the popularity of those two writers, although his infrequent output (he's published only about 5 books in the past 20 years) and his esoteric subject matter (most of his fiction deals with Native American mythology) puts him a rather narrow niche category. He does seem to have accumulated a small cult following, however, and a well-deserved one....more
What do you do when your best friend, who has been away for a year after her boyfriend was killed in a bizarre hunting accident, comes back to town foWhat do you do when your best friend, who has been away for a year after her boyfriend was killed in a bizarre hunting accident, comes back to town for a visit?
Throw a party!
The protagonist, Megan, in R.L. Stine's second Fear Street book, "The Surprise Party" is pretty dumb. Also, clueless, insensitive, and self-absorbed. So self-absorbed that she doesn't get the hint from all her friends that a surprise party is a Bad Idea. After getting threatening notes and phone calls, she still doesn't get the hint. She also doesn't seem to notice that her boyfriend, Tony, is going a bit psycho.
This was pretty dumb, overall. It will, however, not stop me from reading more Fear Street novels in the future....more
Surprisingly suspenseful and entertaining, "The New Girl", R.L. Stine's first book in his '80s series for teens, Fear Street, is the story of a horny Surprisingly suspenseful and entertaining, "The New Girl", R.L. Stine's first book in his '80s series for teens, Fear Street, is the story of a horny high school boy who falls in love (lust) with a girl who may or may not be a ghost. Whatever. As long as she puts out, he's happy. Until her brother shows up...
Stine apparently wrote this series before he started writing his more-popular and best-selling series for middle readers Goosebumps. Nobody could accuse Stine of being a stellar wordsmith, but he told creepy stories that kids of all ages absolutely loved. There's a Netflix TV show based on Fear Street. I have not watched it yet....more
James Tynion IV has made his career on killing children. No, wait---that sounds horrible.
Tynion himself has not killed any children. He just writes abJames Tynion IV has made his career on killing children. No, wait---that sounds horrible.
Tynion himself has not killed any children. He just writes about killing children, lovingly, and in graphic detail.
So, yeah, that doesn't sound any better.
Anyway, his graphic novel series Something is Killing the Children has come to an end (maybe) in Volume 7, and it's, as expected, great.
It's exciting, bloody, and a tear-jerker all in one.
Now, Mr. Tynion, please stop killing children in your comic books. You've done it really well, but take a break for a while. It's emotionally draining for all of us......more
There is a tendency---especially in horror---of characters doing really stupid things. There's always someone dumb enough to open that closet door or There is a tendency---especially in horror---of characters doing really stupid things. There's always someone dumb enough to open that closet door or walking down into that dark cellar or opening the lid of that old dusty trunk. One could say that they are asking for it, but, if we are honest with ourselves, isn't it pretty believable? Humans are naturally curious creatures, sometimes to our detriment. If there is a door to be opened somewhere, isn't our initial impulse to open it and peek inside?
There is another kind of stupidity in horror that happens quite a lot, and it may also seem believable given the fact that humans don't always think through their actions, especially in high-stress situations. I call it "calamity-dumb", and it usually involves a small group of 3-5 people who are suddenly caught up in some kind of tragic situation. Whether it's a group of frat-boys who have accidentally killed a young woman in a gang-rape or a group of high-schoolers who have just committed a hit and run on a desolate country road, they invariably make horrible decisions.
So, instead of doing the right thing---calling the police and telling the truth, for instance---they decide to hide the truth and make a pact to never talk about it. Of course, doing the former would make for very short novels and, frankly, uninteresting ones. At least by doing the wrong thing, the characters ensure that Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" and Lois Duncan's "I Know What You Did Last Summer" would keep the reader riveted throughout.
Ronald Malfi's "Small Town Horror" is classic calamity-dumb horror.
It involves five high school kids who, 20 years ago, did something horrible on July 4th that resulted in someone's death. It was a terrible accident, but, instead of going to the police, they decided to not report it and never talk about it.
Guilt, however, has a powerful pull sometimes. Never mind any actual vengeful spirits that may be choreographing an elaborate scheme to make sure the guilty parties get their just deserts.
Malfi's story is compelling and suspenseful. It's also---as most calamity-dumb stories are---somewhat depressing. The characters in "Small Town Horror" aren't evil people. They aren't even very bad. They just did something really bad many years ago, and they are now paying the price for it. As they knew they would eventually....more
Imagine if your athlete's foot or yeast infection had an evolutionary boost and took over half your body. This is the frightening (and, frankly, downrImagine if your athlete's foot or yeast infection had an evolutionary boost and took over half your body. This is the frightening (and, frankly, downright yucky) premise of Harry Adam Knight's 1985 fungal-horror novel "The Fungus", which reads like a James Herbert novel with a more sci-fi edge.
Body horror creeps me out, and this is crazy-weird body horror involving mushrooms and fungus. Knight's descriptions are pretty vivid and real, more of a clinical mycological look at what would happen if a bio-engineered fungus were accidentally unleashed upon a big city; in this case, London. Spoiler alert: it's yucky.
If you're wondering where the producers of the HBO TV show (and the video game it was based on) "The Last of Us" got their idea for a global fungal takeover, look no further than this book. I'm fairly sure it was a major inspiration....more
Ridley Scott’s 1979 film “Alien” was a brilliant mash-up of science fiction and horror, but while his film helped jumpstart a sub-genre of “scary spacRidley Scott’s 1979 film “Alien” was a brilliant mash-up of science fiction and horror, but while his film helped jumpstart a sub-genre of “scary space” films that littered video stores throughout the ‘80s, Scott wasn’t the first person to experiment with the genre mash-up.
Science fiction writers have been extrapolating about the future of space travel and populating other planets as early as 1752, when Voltaire published arguably the first science fiction novel ever, “Micromega”. I say “arguably” because humans have probably been telling stories about people from beyond the stars as long as there have been people telling stories.
The potential horrors lurking in the vast universe aren’t always palatable to hard sf fans. Certainly there are always dangers of space travel—-rogue planets, runaway asteroids, supernovae, warring alien civilizations—-but much of science fiction tends to deal with “clean” threats.
Scott’s “Alien”, John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, H.P. Lovecraft’s “Color Out Of Space”: these are messy and frightening science-fictional problems, anything but clean.
Editor Hank Davis has compiled a mixed bag of stories from various eras of sf that highlight how science fiction writers have tackled “cosmic horror”—-in its much wider definition of the term—-in his compilation “In Space No One Can Hear You Scream” (a direct nod to the movie tagline to Scott’s “Alien”).
The stories range from silly to downright creepy, but they are all fun in a hair-raising, goosebump-inducing way.
Some of my favorites: ****“A Walk in the Dark” by Arthur C. Clarke: First published in 1950, this early Clarke story is a straight-up horror story about a man whose space rover stalls on the way back to his habitat, and he is forced to hoof it back to base. At night. On a supposedly lifeless planet…
****“Mongoose” by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette: This 2009 story is a fun little actioner about an interplanetary pest-control agent and his weird pet that can detect a certain alien species that nibbles holes in time-space, which can attract other nasty creatures from other dimensions.
****“Nothing Happens On The Moon” by Paul Ernst: This story, from 1939, is a humorous tale of a bored watchman on the loneliest outpost in the universe, who must singlehandedly stop an alien threat from making its way to Earth…
****“Sandkings” by George R.R. Martin: “Game of Thrones” author Martin published a lot of sci-fi/ horror back in the day, and this is one from 1979. It’s about a guy who loves to collect alien pets, the more terrifying the better. His latest addition to his collection, though, may be his last…
I have to say, while some were definitely better than others, I thoroughly enjoyed them all. This may be a fun book to usher in the Halloween reading season....more
Matthew Cheney’s short novel “Changes in the Land” (at 84 pages it should appropriately be labelled a novella) is a terrifying little horror novel witMatthew Cheney’s short novel “Changes in the Land” (at 84 pages it should appropriately be labelled a novella) is a terrifying little horror novel with a Lovecraftian cosmic horror vibe, except that it’s very distinctly not cosmic. Quite the opposite. It’s a more terrestrial horror. Subterranean. Tartarean.
The novella is loosely based on a real-life wildlife preserve in New Hampshire, created by Austin Corbin in the late-19th century. A wealthy railroad magnate, Corbin acquired 20,000 acres for his hobby, which included collecting wild animals and hunting them, with his other rich friends. The Corbin family kept possession of the park until 1944, when it was bought by a consortium of hunters that still use it today.
The fictional family in Cheney’s novel were also wealthy Americans who loved to hunt and kill. Wild animals were, of course, some of their favored prey. But the family has a horrible secret, one that is strangely redolent of America’s bloody history of genocide and slavery.
For centuries, the idea that “real men own land” was the impetus for American exploration and expansion. But, do people truly own land? Can land truly be owned? The Native Americans didn’t really believe this. Certain tribes believed that the land chose the people, not the other way around.
The fictional family in this novel think that, for generation after generation, they have owned the land that they live on. The truth is a bit more complicated....more
What Graham Masterton may lack in eloquence, he certainly makes up for in prolificacy. Author of over a hundred books---most of them horror novels---MWhat Graham Masterton may lack in eloquence, he certainly makes up for in prolificacy. Author of over a hundred books---most of them horror novels---Masterton loves to tell a scary story full of blood and guts. And lots of weird sex. (Masterton's other favorite subject besides horror is sexual instruction books, with titles like "Isn't It Time You Did Something Kinky?" or "How to Make Love Six Nights a Week". He has published over a dozen of these books over his career.)
"Charnel House", published in 1978, wasn't his first novel or published work. That would be "The Manitou", published in 1976, which was made into a movie starring Tony Curtis and is a favorite late-night offering on some cable channels that nobody watches anymore.
"Charnel House" is the first Masterton novel I have ever read. If you can find a copy of the 1988 Tor reprint paperback, take a look at the cover. It shows a naked man crawling through a window, except that he has four arms, four legs, a skeleton for a head, and a weird human face attached to his stomach. Now, being a fan of '80s paperbacks, I know that a lot of cover artists took some liberties by making some pretty gruesome covers that had very little if anything to do with the story.
Not in this case. What you see on that pretty horrific cover is an exact description of what occurs in the story.
I could go into detail about the plot---something about a Native American legendary creature commonly known as Coyote, the trickster demon, who, long ago, battled and defeated another creature simply called Big Monster---but it would just sound ridiculous, because it is. It's also pretty damn awesome in its pure silliness.
If you're looking for something that is just pure entertainment for entertainment's sake, you probably can't go wrong with Masterton. Yes, some of his depictions of Native Americans are borderline racist, and, yes, his portrayals of women are borderline misogynistic, but if you can get past that, it's fine.
Plus, there is a kaiju-like climactic battle in the end between two giant Native American demon-monsters destroying the shit out of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. It's kind of worth reading just for that, honestly. ...more
Ghosts aren’t what they used to be. Hell, horror isn’t what it used to be. And that’s a good thing. That means the genre is maturing.
Remember when ghoGhosts aren’t what they used to be. Hell, horror isn’t what it used to be. And that’s a good thing. That means the genre is maturing.
Remember when ghosts were floating bedsheets? They were good for a jump scare around a campfire, that was about it. Sure, they were a subtle acceptance of death, but never anything upon which to dwell. Ghosts were relatively harmless.
In Josh Malerman’s new novel, “Incidents Around the House”, the ghosts are all grown up. And they ain’t harmless at all.
Probably one of the most terrifying horror novels of the year, if not the last five years, “IAtH” is more than just a ghost story. It’s a story about childhood and innocence and the loss of both. It’s about family and dysfunction and bad parenting and good parenting (and how, more often than not, the two are sometimes indistinguishable) and reconciling with one’s past. It’s about karma and reincarnation and sacrifice. It’s about the very fine line between love and hate. It’s about life and death and after-life and how utterly incomprehensible those are to anyone, especially children.
It’s a ghost story in which the ghost isn’t really a ghost.
It’s all of that, and it’s still scary as fuck.
Historically, horror doesn’t get a lot of credit for its literary merits. Thankfully, a renaissance seems to be happening in the genre, where writers like Paul Tremblay, Catriona Ward, Stephen Graham Jones, Sarah Gailey, T. Kingfisher, Grady Hendrix, Josh Malerman, Cassandra Khaw, and many more are reshaping the genre by adding substance and nuance to a genre that, for many, is still looked at as insubstantial and one-dimensional....more
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