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Get On Board the Gothic Revival Train: Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez

May 18, 2026 by Maggie

Gothic literature is having a moment and I, for one, am loving it. The houses are creepy, the family vibes are rancid, and because this is 2026, the queerness no longer has to be subtextual. Cynthia Gómez delivers a wonderful gothic debut work in Muñeca, out June 2. This novella is about a Latine working classRead More

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Gothic Schoolgirls: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran Review

May 15, 2026 by Vic

Avery Curran’s Spoiled Milk is a gothic tale of a girls’ boarding school in 1928. After the tragic death of golden girl Violet, Emily, Violet’s best friend, knows this was no accident. Emily is desperate to prove she was murdered, so she enlists the help of the other girls in her year, including even prim and properRead More

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Tender and Terrifying: Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjulia Datta

April 18, 2026 by Rose R.

Do you ever know that you’re going to enjoy a book so much that you just keep putting off reading it? That was me with Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta. I’m a big fan of the married co-authors’s previous work, the celebrity romance The View Was Exhausting, and the promise of their secondRead More

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A Sapphic Boarding School Gothic: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran

April 14, 2026 by Rachel Friars

By turns haunting, compelling, and illuminating, Avery Curran’s new novel, Spoiled Milk, is perfect for fans of queer Gothic horror and historical fiction.  Set in England in 1928, Emily Locke is in her final year at the Briarley School for Girls, an isolated boarding school designed to provide middle- to upper-class girls with accomplished educations. WhatRead More

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A Spine-Tingling Thriller About Obsession: The Plans I Have for You by Lai Sanders Review

April 3, 2026 by Kit

When a video of Shelley Hu hitting her rock bottom goes viral, it upends her entire life. She loses her spot at Columbia Law, her highly coveted internship at a prestigious law firm, and any hope she once had of building a better life for herself and her mother. Shelley retreats to the town inRead More

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Grief and Found Family in Alexis Henderson’s Young Adult Debut

March 13, 2026 by Briana Wilvert

Newly released this month, Alexis Henderson’s young adult debut, When I Was Death, brings the author’s signature fantastical horror to a meditation on grief and coming of age.  In the year since protagonist Roslyn lost her sister, Adeline, she’s almost completely disconnected from her life. The mysterious circumstances surrounding Adeline’s loss have cast an even longerRead More

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A Caravan of Teenage Grim Reapers: When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson Review

March 6, 2026 by Kit

A year after her sister, Adeline, dies under mysterious circumstances, a ragtag group of teenage girls descend upon Roslyn Volk’s small Midwestern town and make her an offer that she can’t refuse in Alexis Henderson’s When I Was Death. The girls (Naomi, Skye, Riley, Iona, Chloe, and the enigmatic Shiloh, who catches Roslyn’s eye from theRead More

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Southern Gothic Horror Meets Sapphic Romance in On Sundays She Picked Flowers

February 15, 2026 by Briana Wilvert

On Sundays She Picked Flowers is Yah-Yah Scholfield’s incredible southern gothic horror debut. Middle-aged protagonist Judith Rice flees her childhood home, desperate to escape the grasp of her abusive mother. Without a plan or resources, she lands in a tiny town in southern Georgia and there is offered refuge. Jude takes shelter in a dilapidated plantation,Read More

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An Atmospheric, Otherworldly, and Sinister Experience: The Salvage by Anbara Salam Review

February 4, 2026 by Susanne Salehi

Courtesy notice to readers: Anbara Salam’s 2025 The Salvage is a haunted novel. Read with care. All playful warnings aside, I hope you’re into slow, creeping dread, because this book is absolutely dripping with it.  Set in the early 1960s, on the isolated, insular Scottish island of Cairnroch, The Salvage immediately plunges readers into the icy, freezing waters ofRead More

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A Disappointing Folk Horror Story: Hollow by Taylor Grothe Review

January 29, 2026 by Til

Hollow by Taylor Grothe is a book with a lot of potential. The main character, Cassie, has recently moved back to her home town and reconnected with her childhood best friends—but the past few years have been tough for all of them, and they just don’t fit the way they used to. When they go onRead More

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