Another year has passed, delivering us a terrible bounty of new horror books to terrify us on quiet nights. Taken together, 2017’s best horror books were a little more introspective than last year’s, striking at the heart and bringing us visceral scares, from Scott Thomas’s psychologically affecting house of horrors in Kill Creek, to the raw […]
Universal Harvester, the second novel by Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle following 2014’s National Book Award-nominated Wolf in White Van, is a deeply unsettling work, but it’s far from the typical horror story you’d imagine from a tale about videotapes filled with disturbing, inexplicable home movie footage. By focusing on the characters over the scares, by asking why— why […]
The word “cult” suggests a sinister organization with a charismatic leader presiding over a brainwashed flock—a society that operates much like a religion, but often with a darker purpose, their behind-the-scenes manipulations only visible to those who are sharp enough to catch them. Countless books have used cults and quasi-religious societies to meditate on the nature of belief and […]
The packages are really piling up at BNSciFi HQ these days as publishers inundate us with a final push of titles releasing just in time for your holiday gifting needs, not to mention a book or two we can look forward to in 2017. Let’s take a glance and see what showed up this week.