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Editor Picks 2023
Who doesn't love a roundup? As 2023 closes out, I wanted to give a shoutout to my favorite reads. Some of these were released this year...

Emily Ruth Verona
Dec 13, 20233 min read
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Interview Reading List: Part II
We don't have a new interview for you this week. Instead, we've decided to round up some new and upcoming titles from authors and artists...

Emily Ruth Verona
Dec 11, 20232 min read
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8 Jewish Horror Books for Chanukah
With Chanukah just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to celebrate some Jewish horror books! That's right. Because sometimes...

Emily Ruth Verona
Dec 6, 20235 min read
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Brian McAuley Interview
The latest installment in Shortwave Publishing’s VHS series is a wintery novella by Brain McAuley called Candy Cain Kills. From the title...

Emily Ruth Verona
Dec 4, 20235 min read
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New Releases: December 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...

Emily Ruth Verona
Nov 29, 20231 min read
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Rae Knowles Interview
Merciless Waters is a new sapphic horror novella from Rae Knowles, author of The Stradivarius (which debuted a few months ago in May)....

Emily Ruth Verona
Nov 6, 20235 min read
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New Releases: November 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...

Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 25, 20232 min read
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Tiffany Morris Interview
From the Elgin-nominated author of Elegies for Rotting Stars comes a debut novella about grief, regret, and family. In Green Fuse...

Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 23, 20234 min read
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New Releases: October 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...

Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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Mental Health & Genre Fiction Reading List
Okay. Let's get personal. A few weeks ago, I ran a library writing workshop called "Mental Health and Genre Fiction" at the Bloomfield...

Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 20, 20239 min read
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Karla Yvette Interview
Steeped in magic and pastoral images of an alternative American west, The Black Tree Atop the Hill is a mesmerizing debut novella from...

Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 18, 20235 min read
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Interview Reading List
We don't have a new interview for you this week. Instead, we've decided to round up some new and upcoming titles from authors and artists...

Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 4, 20233 min read
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New Releases: September 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...

Emily Ruth Verona
Aug 30, 20233 min read
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100 Gothic Tales From the Last Four Centuries
It's rainy and dark outside as I write this. Last night, there were thunderstorms. That got me thinking about gothic literature. What...

Emily Ruth Verona
Aug 16, 20234 min read
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New Releases: August 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...

Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 26, 20233 min read
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Yolanda Sfetsos Interview
A missing girl named Molly returns sixteen months after vanishing in the woods. Her mother should be relieved, but Molly isn’t quite the...

Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 24, 20236 min read
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Hailey Piper Interview
A naked pregnant woman with a cavalry saber. A cannibalistic demon. A mad preacher. Over the course of one night in 1882, Annette Klein’s...

Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 17, 20236 min read
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Ode to the Horror Novella
Even when my brain is too fried to sit down with a novel, I'm always up for reading a good novella. The size of the volume alone makes it...

Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 12, 20234 min read
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Cat Voleur Interview
A controversial comic creator is catapulted into a world of crime and obsession in Cat Voleur’s new novella, Revenge Arc. The synopsis...

Emily Ruth Verona
Jul 10, 20237 min read
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Spooky Books for Movie Nerds
Growing up, my love of horror developed through television and the movies. It started with Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark?...

Emily Ruth Verona
Jun 14, 202313 min read
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