In Daniel A. Olivas’s wry, entertaining novel inspired by the Mary Shelley classic, a “reanimated” man in near-future Los Angeles searches for love and identity while contending with bigotry and an uncertain past. Herein,... Read More

Fantasy and horror meld in Natalie Gibson’s striking novel "The Last Immortal", which is full of sexuality and psychological warfare. Ramillia is a passionate and dangerous heroine who’s been broken by her incredible powers. She... Read More

"Old Scores" is a sanguineous vampfest of a novel—supple with fantastic, horrific, and amorous elements. Moody, bloody, and set against the frigid background of modern, wintry Chicago, A. J. Harrison’s fantasy novel "Old Scores"... Read More

"Three Sixes and a Forked Tongue or Cold Medicine and a Liar" is an intriguing coming-of-age horror novel in which outcast friends encounter witchcraft and grow apart. A girl delves into witchcraft in the woods of West Virginia in James... Read More

In Mónica Ojeda’s horror novel, six artists in Barcelona are connected to an infamous horror video game, "Nefando". Unfolding through a prism of perspectives, the story switches between inhabiting the consciousnesses of roommates... Read More

Violent and foreboding, "The Molossus of Old Man Moyer" wraps warnings about greed into its supernatural horror story. In Joe Lyon’s horror novel "The Molossus of Old Man Moyer", a former convict is caught up in an elderly... Read More

Octavia Cade’s "You Are My Sunshine" collects eighteen stories that cast a speculative eye on the future, seen through an ecological lens. Ecological themes carry throughout the book, which also integrates elements of horror. In “We... Read More

Elegant and arresting, the eleven modern fables in Paola Ferrante’s Her Body among Animals thrum with a desperate, racing pulse as they capture the everyday horrors women live with and the sacrifices—of personhood, opportunity, and... Read More