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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|

Hazelthorn

“Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn’t know how to scream." Author: CG Drews Evander’s past sticks in him like broken shards: half formed and half seen memories of unthinkable violence. A young blond boy, a playmate, a shovel, so much blood and viscera spilling out. And now, forever an invalid, Evander is nearly grown, secreted away in his room turned prison in the Hazelthorn estate, hidden by his billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall. He is also hidden from Hall’s beautiful, deadly grandson – Laurie – the playmate who took adventure and transformed it into attempted murder. Laurie, [...]

Frances Carden2026-10-05T19:35:25-07:00October 5th, 2026|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, CG Drews, fantasy, Hazelthorn, horror, read, reading, ya|

Black Flame

How bad do you want it? Author: Gretchen Felker-Martin Ellen Kramer works for a disgraced film restoration company, and her new project is The Baroness, a film only recently discovered to have survived its supposed destruction by the Nazis. The film makes Ellen deeply uncomfortable – from its history (the Jewish man who produced it and the cast all ended up in concentration camps – dead), its occult rituals (including human sacrifice), and its intensely graphical homosexual content. But Ellen is not like that anymore – she never was, it was a phase, she’s cured – and the film is just [...]

Frances Carden2026-09-06T17:14:31-07:00September 6th, 2026|Tags: book review, cursed film, horror, novella, read, reading|