My Top Ten Novellas of 2020
This has been a tough year, no doubt about it. Starting my own site helped distract me a little bit, as have all of these novellas. At some point during…
Spungunion by John Boden
SPUNGUNION! This book deserves all the stars, your time and your attention. Deke is a truck driving man who returns home from an overnight run to find that his wife…
The Taint and Other Novellas by Brian Lumley, narrated by Joshua Saxon
Welcoming the chance to get my Lovecraft on via the excellent narration of Joshua Saxon, I tore into THE TAINT AND OTHER NOVELLAS. What fun! A collection of 5 novellas…
Borne of the Deep (Salem Hawley #2) by Michael Patrick Hicks
After the events in THE RESURRECTIONISTS, Salem Hawley is on a quest to find Al Azif, the mysterious grimoire stolen at the end of that book. Now, prepare yourself for…
True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik
TRUE CRIME was a brutal novella which, to my mind, was about the cycle of violence that abuse engenders within families, and which then ripples outward to the world. Being…
The Hobgoblin of Little Minds by Mark Matthews
Seeing that cool looking werewolf on the cover with a heart in its hand, makes you think you know what this book is about. You don’t! THE HOBGOBLINS OF LITTLE…
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS is a superb, gut wrenching novel, and it wrecked me. I’ve been sitting here struggling to come up with some words that don’t sound like the…
Eight Cylinders by Jason Parent
3.5/5 stars! A wild ride featuring American muscle cars, some cosmic horror action, tentacles and a magic 8 ball. Hold on tight! A man named Seb makes his getaway from…
Lullabies For Suffering edited by Mark Matthews
Heartbreaking, haunting and memorable, these LULLABIES FOR SUFFERING will stay with you for a long, long time. Here we have a collection of 6 novellas, all of them from authors…
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Evil in a small town is one of my absolute favorite horror tropes and THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES aces it! Set in the 90’s, we begin…