Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton
Hollow Kingdom is a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Horror
Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima
With this stellar debut volume–a “mosaic novel” depicting a world of infinite biomorphic perversity that feels at once surreal yet … Continue reading →
The Girl in Red, Christina Henry
Between climate change and the fear of impending war, civilization’s collapse feels closer every day. In her latest novel, The … Continue reading →
By the Feet of Men, Grant Price
The world’s population has been decimated by the Change, a chain reaction of events triggered by global warming. In Europe, … Continue reading →
Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become … Continue reading →
The Migration, Helen Marshall
Marshall is painting on a large canvas here and her style is unabashedly baroque: the novel is characterized by a … Continue reading →
Compulsory Games, Robert Aikman
Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of … Continue reading →
The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg
Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at … Continue reading →
Devil’s Day, Andrew Michael Hurley
The new gothic accepts input from many sources: from industrial archaeology to ecofiction, from contemporary nature writing to the brutalism … Continue reading →
Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin
Translated into English, January 2017–(originally Distancia de rescate), Fever Dream is shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. With … Continue reading →