After Lena’s grandmother dies, she realises that her mother’s illness is worsening and she learns the full extent of the family debt. Lena drops out of college to take a research study job in the remote town of Lakewood. The job offers medical insurance for her and her mother, high pay and a place to live. All Lena has to do is take part in a program that she must keep secret from everyone. But as the program goes on, Lena has to decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the sake of her loved ones.   Everything that had happened during the day had placed a kind of spell on Lena becau ..read more

After the death of her long-term partner, Penny is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age in her apartment, surrounded by her keepsakes. She is forlorn and lonely but doesn’t see a way out of her situation. But after a terrible accident, she finds herself at a unique care residence. For the first time in a long time, she is cared for, where everything is planned and she only needs to look after herself. But weird things are happening, she seems to lose time and she doesn’t know what is real anymore.   “I wish I had done more. There’s not enough time for me now. I had years and years ..read more

Diya Burman’s life takes a difficult turn when she loses her best friend. Grief has taken hold of her life, costing her job. Then Diya lands a new job at Slough & Sons, where she is tasked with cleaning up after the deceased. As she begins her work, she starts to notice strange things that cannot be ignored. The Sloughs seem to be hiding something, and Diya is determined to uncover the truth. But is this family business more than Diya bargained for?   “We do not disappear after death. Small pieces of our being can remain, persisting in those places that were once so meaningful to us ..read more

A collection of 13 short horror stories that explores womanhood, queerness, and intimacy.   I understood that I was not done acquiring things worthy of being lost.   Here In The Night is a beautiful collection of short stories that pack an emotional wallop. I thought the writing is beautifully wistful. It weaves the blossoming of a new relationship versus the longing and regret of a love lost. There are eerie moments, with an aching understanding that perhaps it’s not spirits that are haunting these characters but the life they have led. From a boarding school in Vermont to the coast ..read more

Five years ago, Ben’s 3-year-old brother Eric disappeared while they were at the grocery store. Now, guilt-ridden and determined, Ben takes a job at the same store as an overnight stockist. He soon realises that the place hides secrets, and his search for Eric will lead him down a terrible road. What Ben doesn’t realise is that he should have stopped looking.   …as hope comforts us, it becomes easier and easier to forget that it too was in the jar that Pandora carried. It’s the one horror of the world that wasn’t loosed when she opened the lid. It’s the one horror that lives in us.   ..read more

In 1959, 17-year-old Mabel thinks she has ghosts inside her. That must be why she is pregnant despite never being with anyone, and why she is sent to Lichen Home. In 1965, 22-year-old Pearl is pregnant and sent to a mother and child home owned by the Whitlock family. But the house is surrounded by ghost woods, spoiled with fungi, with rumours of dark magic. Pearl and Mabel’s stories will become intertwined in unexpected ways.   I have a ghost in my knee. There’s a small pocket just behind the kneecap and she’s hiding in there, all tucked up in the soft mattress of cartilage. She’s very sm ..read more

After her mother’s death, Marin receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace. Alice is a horror author and childhood friend of her mother. She offers Marin a job as a nanny to her two children, Thea and Wren, while Alice’s eldest daughter Evie is away at school. When Marin arrives at Lovelace House, she’s confused by the hostile reception of the girls under her care. What seems like innocent pranks soon turn sinister. Animals are turning up dead and something dangerous is lurking in the woods. Soon, Marin finds herself in a mystery that must be unraveled.   If you are looking for ..read more

Jo never expected to be in her absent grandmother’s will, let alone be left her house and land. Her grandmother also left her a letter with a cryptic message. When Jo arrives at the property, she finds the house full of abandoned things. There is an old shack at the back locked from entry. The tenants are behaving oddly and the townspeople are treating her with suspicion. She’s also remembering troubling memories from the last time she visited. Jo fears that it might be impossible for her to leave. Because according to her grandmother, Jo belongs here.   Run! her daddy begs, but she can’t ..read more

FOUND: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories is an anthology of 18 horror stories. Edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias, the stories are inspired by the found footage horror subgenre.   If you experience side effects such as anxiety, nausea, or even disturbed sleep […], we recommend taking a break from reading until your symptoms have passed. You have been warned.    First of all, I love the cool nostalgic book cover. And I’m happy to say the inside is just as fantastic! I’m a fan of found footage horror movies – REC, Hell House LLC, Cloverfield and The Taking of Deb ..read more

Kolyma Highway, aka Road of Bones, is a stretch of road that serves as a graveyard for hundreds of thousands of bodies from at least eighty Soviet gulags under Stalin’s rule. Fascinated by its history, documentary producer Teig travels to the area with his camera operator, Prentiss. They hire a local Yakut guide to take them to Oymyakon, the coldest settlement on Earth,  where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. But when the team arrives, they find the village mysteriously abandoned apart from a 9-year-old girl and a pack of wolves unlike any wild animals they ..read more