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The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir Book Review

It’s always a pleasure to find a “one-sitting” book; the kind of book where I can sit out on my back porch and immerse myself in the author’s world for a few hours, experiencing the whole story from beginning to end. Each plot point and note remains fresh in my mind as I follow the…

Hampton Heights Book Review

The tongue and cheek subtitle of Dan Kois’s Hampton Heights is, “One Harrowing Night In the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” which for this reviewer set an expectation for an unserious romp through streets and alleyways rife with all manners of ghosts and ghouls. The cover art of the US edition features some red-eyed…

The White Guy Dies First Book Review

I am far from an expert on the relationship between the horror genre and people of color, but I do have an interest in the topic ever since reading The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle’s take on the atrociously racist Lovecraft story The Horror at Red Hook. That novella opens with a startling dedication:…

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