Darcy Coates Archives

Where He Can’t Find You

“Sometimes the worst things that happen to you come from the smallest decisions.” Author: Darcy Coates Think your hometown is going nowhere real fast? Well . . . you’re still probably better off than Doubtful, which has a bit more of a problem than just being backwaters and old-fashioned. You see, Doubtful has a generational serial killer. A man (or is it?) who kidnaps the unwary and returns them in pieces, reimagined as it were, sewn together with other victims, bisected by bright red threads, organic monstrosities that no longer resemble the humans from whom they were crafted. This then is [...]

Frances Carden2026-10-09T20:21:27-07:00October 9th, 2026|Tags: book review, Darcy Coates, horror, read, reading, The Stitcher, Where He Can’t Find You|

Hunted

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Author: Darcy Coates Darcy Coates can write. She can also scare you to the brink of paranoia and beyond. Hunted is one of her best, eeriest, and most probable reads to date. It’s certainly not the book you should take with you on a remote camping trip! It all begins when Eileen Hershberger goes missing, hiking through Ashlough Forest. Eileen’s friends and family beg the police to investigate, but after a routine search, they say there is nothing more they can do. After all, Ashlough [...]

Frances Carden2026-08-29T15:47:04-07:00August 29th, 2026|Tags: book review, Darcy Coates, horror, read, reading|

Ghost Camera

“That’s what we always fear the most: the things we can’t see, and the things we don’t yet understand.” Author: Darcy Coates I’m a novel girly, so usually I don’t find myself attracted to short story collections, even those by a favorite author. I came to Ghost Camera more through false advertising than anything else. It’s not clear that Ghost Camera is a novella followed by seven other short stories and one other novella. Normally, I’d be mad, but I actually loved this collection and all of the stories. The signature tale from which the collection derives its name concerns two [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-24T19:05:07-07:00November 24th, 2025|Tags: book review, Darcy Coates, ghosts, horror, read, reading, Short Stories|