book reviews

Book reviews for horror fans; weather a sleepless night with literary accounts of hauntings, possessions, zombies, vampires and beyond.

This LEMON just BIT ME...
The Lemon That Bites Back Most people think of lemons as harmless little fruits. Tart, sour, good for lemonade and tea, maybe useful for cleaning a stain.
By Be The Best4 months ago in Horror
Why It Sucks to Be Born as a Komodo Dragon
Being a Komodo dragon sounds impressive on paper — giant monitor lizard, island apex predator, capable of taking down deer — but the reality is a long, brutal, and often short life.
By Be The Best4 months ago in Horror
The Phone That Shouldn’t Ring
M Mehran After her grandmother’s funeral, Nida inherited the old farmhouse at the edge of town. The place was filled with relics—dusty furniture, cracked photographs, and one object that didn’t belong: a heavy, black rotary phone sitting on the hallway table.
By Muhammad Mehran4 months ago in Horror
The House That Breathed
M Mehran It began with a dare. On the outskirts of town stood a house no one wanted to claim. The windows were boarded, the paint peeled, and weeds grew like claws across the porch. Kids called it The Breathing House, because on quiet nights, some swore they heard it exhale.
By Muhammad Mehran4 months ago in Horror
Why did i STEP ON this BUG...
The Bug Beneath the Shoe It all began on a quiet Tuesday night. The kind of night when nothing seems out of the ordinary—until it does.
By Be The Best4 months ago in Horror
Review of The Long Walk. Content Warning.
Review of The Long Walk By: T.D. Carter Now, bear with me as this is my first formal review of a movie. I have written informal reviews in the past, but this one is different—I wanted to truly give my take on this film. The movie is directed by Francis Lawrence, with a cast that includes Ben Wang, David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman, and Mark Hamill. This is a horror/sci-fi film based on the novel by Richard Bachman, who is actually Stephen King. “The Long Walk” was the first novel King ever wrote, and the movie was released on September 12, 2025.
By T.D.Carter4 months ago in Horror
The House at Raven’s Hollow
M Mehran No one in our town went near the house at Raven’s Hollow after sunset. They said it was cursed, that shadows moved inside its walls even on the brightest days. I had always laughed at such tales—until the night I dared to enter.
By Muhammad Mehran4 months ago in Horror
The King In Yellow: 200 Word Reviews #5
The King In Yellow is a rough, jagged cornerstone of Weird Fiction on which so many later, and better, writers have built their work. They far surpass Robert W. Chambers, but plant their stories in ground he broke and, in many ways, paint within the broad lines he lay down.
By I. D. Reeves4 months ago in Horror
I'm Beyond Excited for Stephen King's The Long Walk Film Adaptation
I barely read Stephen King's The Long Walk this year. I was in shock with how tragic and brutal the novel was, and once I heard about the film adaptation coming out this year, I lost my mind. I was pretty worried about how the film was going to look once the trailer eventually came around, but wow, my expectations were proven wrong once I saw the trailer.
By Emy Quinn4 months ago in Horror
The Last Library Card
I found it at the bottom of a shoebox while cleaning my grandmother’s apartment. A faded rectangle of plastic, no bigger than a credit card, stamped with a barcode and the words:
By ALEX_BLACK4 months ago in Horror
The House That Waited for Me
M Mehran The house had been abandoned for nearly twenty years, yet the moment I stepped onto its front porch, it felt alive—like it had been waiting for me all along.
By Muhammad Mehran5 months ago in Horror
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
By Ayub khan5 months ago in Horror