Genre: Literary Fiction, Disability/Illness Published: October 2025 My Rating: 2/5 stars ‘I was fearful of disturbing it, like the disorder was some animal that would go berserk if it realised it was confined in the cage of my body.’ One day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. A string of doctors offer her a string of diagnoses, ranging from carpal tunnel, to arthritis, to her body’s way o

Genre: Horror Published: Zando Press, September 2025 My Rating: 4.5 stars "Leave the dead. Look after the living." The Story: A woman wakes up inside a wooden coffin six feet underground, with no memory of her identity or supposed “death”. She desperately claws her way to freedom, emerging on the frozen ground of Inishbannock - an island just off the coast of Ireland. Not everyone in the small isolated island-community welcomes Mara’s return though... With the help of a han

Genre: Historical fantasy, Western Published: Quirk Books, November 2025 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Romantic love was a clear-cut institution, bolstered by orthodoxy and ritual. When a man lost his wife, it was expected that his world would unravel. But friendship… friendship was a wilderness with no guide. There were no courting rituals one might follow to pursue it, and little sympathy for the gut-wrenching horror of its loss.” Who would have thought that I could enjoy a weste

Gerne: Dark Academia, Mystery, Fantasy Published: St. Martin's Press, October 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The philosopher and critic Tzvetan Todorov defines the fantastic as the hesitation between the supernatural and a mundane explanation of an occurrence. In a work of fiction, when a woman in the woods sees a monster and turns out to be crazy, then that is realism. If it turns out that there really is a monster in those woods, then that is horror. But if one can make an argu

A reading-blog in which I attempt to beat my readingslump by reading recently released horror-novella's until I find a 5-star...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction with Speculative element Published: ECW-Press, October 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “If I were to tell someone...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Grove Press, August 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars ‘Sometimes,’ I said, ‘goodbye isn’t...

Genre: Fantasy Published: Del Rey, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from...

Genre: Horror Published: Wicked House Publishing, June 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Everyone deserves to have someone at their side when...

Genre: Fantasy Published: DAW Publishing, July 2025 My Review: 4.5/5 stars, rounded up because I love Joshua Philip Johnsons creative...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: J onathan Cape, August 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars "The Echoes. His parents thought it was a good name...

Genre: Horror Published: Night Shade Books, 2012 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.” The Croning...

Genre: Sci-fi Novella Published: Lanternfish Press, May 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “…Life permanently fixed in a homage to itself. An...

Genre: Cozy Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Doubleday, September 2024, originally published March 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars “The...

Genre: Sci-fi, Horror Published: Daphne Press (UK)/ Tor Nightfire (US), May 2025 My Rating: 1/5 stars "We were the weeds of the...

Genre: Horror, Supernatural Published: Shortwave Media, April 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars Fans of Iain Reid’s We Spread will delight in...

Genre: Sci-fi, dystopia Published: Angry Robot, April 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars Three individuals separated by 200 years are linked by...

Genre: Eco-fiction, horror, novella Published: Stelliform Press, April 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The fen belongs to itself. Like us, it...

Genre: science fiction Published: Tor, February 2025 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Let me put this in terms you can understand…” Consider this,...

Genre: horror Published : Rising Action Publishing, March 2025 My Rating: 1/5 stars I truly wished I could justify a higher rating than...