There’s a particular kind of teenager who learns to survive by memorizing the rules of horror movies, and Stephen Graham Jones hands her a whole novel to bleed through. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the My Heart Is a…
There’s a particular kind of horror that doesn’t chase you down a hallway so much as sit across the kitchen table and quietly ask you to doubt everything you thought you knew. Below is how the A Head Full of…
Corey Brill does something in the first ten minutes of The Troop that I keep thinking about: he plays a starving man eating in a way that made me set down my coffee. Below is how the Troop audiobook actually…
What does evil sound like when it is absolutely certain it is doing you a kindness? I’ve spent real hours with the NOS4A2 audiobook, so here is the verdict. I spent the better part of a week inside that question,…
It was past eleven on a Tuesday, kitchen light off and just the range hood glowing, when Ron McLarty let his voice drop the way he does every single time the Marsten House comes up. Here’s what the Salem’s Lot…
There is a specific breed of dread that Stephen King reserves for parents, and he buried most of it in Pet Sematary. So let’s get into the Pet Sematary audiobook. I have been reviewing horror on audio for the better…
Bahni Turpin does something in the first ten minutes of this recording that told me I was in safe hands: she lets a room full of women talk over each other. Here’s what the Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying…
What would you sacrifice to stop the end of the world if no one could prove the world was actually ending? Here’s what the Cabin at the End of the World audiobook is really like. That is the trap Paul…
Few thrillers cast a shadow as long as Rosemary’s Baby; Ira Levin’s 1967 novel and the film it spawned practically invented the modern fear that evil could be waiting behind a friendly neighbor’s door. What follows is my honest read…
Some horror sneaks up on you. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Hidden Pictures audiobook. Mallory Quinn takes what looks like a dream job — nanny to a bright, sweet five-year-old named Teddy in a leafy New Jersey suburb…