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
A Disappointing Folk Horror Story: Hollow by Taylor Grothe Review
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
A Queer Boarding School Gothic: Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran Review
Everything about the summary to Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran (out March 10, thank you to Doubleday for the ARC) made me so unbearably excited to read it. “The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school turns out to be the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events. A thrilling debut novel aboutRead More
Drew Huff’s Landlocked in Foreign Skin Gets Under Your Skin
With only a few weeks left in the year, 2025 still managed to thrill me with a brilliantly strange and unexpected sapphic sci fi novella: Landlocked in Foreign Skin by Drew Huff. Thus, my novella kick continues. What can I say? Things have been hard lately and sometimes you just need a confection, oozing and tentacled asRead More
When Bisexual Erasure Becomes Existential Horror: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle Review
Okay, Chuck Tingle. You win. I keep trying to be cynical, I keep picking up this horror books thinking the writing style isn’t for me, and I keep being completely won over by the end. Next time, I’m all in from page one, because the concepts Chuck Tingle plays with in these stories are soRead More
A Dizzying Fever Dream of a Horror Novel: The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling Review
Caitlin Starling continues to wow with The Starving Saints, a dizzying yet lush horror novel set during a siege of a fantastical medieval fortress. At the start of the novel, the siege has run long. Provisions are depleted, water is short, and even the resident order of nuns cannot conjure up enough of a miracle toRead More
A Disappointing Carmilla Retelling: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn Review
Hungerstone was one of my most-anticipated books of 2025, but it ended up being a disappointment. I love Carmilla and queer Carmilla retellings, not to mention sapphic vampire stories in general, so I thought this would be an easy win. Instead, I ended up feeling like this was a novel split in two, where theRead More
Southern Gothic Horror Meets Dark Academia: I’ll Make a Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker Review
In I’ll Make a Spectacle of You, we meet Zora Robinson, an ambitious graduate student and Hoodoo practitioner, as she enters her first year at the most respected HBCU in the country. Bricksbury University has a long and storied history, with more than a few secrets, the biggest of all involving a beast that roams theRead More
Gory Survival Horror at a Craft Store: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer Review
Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer is both a visceral survival horror and a balm to survivors of homophobic violence perpetrated by religious institutions everywhere. Once upon a time, Ruth was engaged to a man named Charlie, on track to become a picture-perfect, god-fearing, trad wife. Until, that is, Charlie becomes increasingly more involved with NewRead More
A Deliciously Toxic Sapphic Gothic Thriller: A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis
You know when a bunch of factors work together in your favour to make a book particularly immersive for you? This was my experience, earlier during a holiday weekend (late October), when I read Carmella Lowkis’s sophomore novel A Slow and Secret Poison (February 10, 2026). A wonderfully atmospheric and twisty, somewhat slow-burn sapphic horror thrillerRead More
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