“Well, when she does all the thinking and knowing, won’t I be … dead?” (Jackson 241). Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Richmond lives an ordinary life. Orphaned and living with her maiden aunt Morgen, Elizabeth spends her days working at a museum and living off of her dead mother’s inheritance, but strange things have started to occur. Threatening letters …
“Ghost stories might not all use the same words, but they all sound like the same words because it’s the ghost we think about, not the words,” (Malerman 65). Eight-year-old Bela loves Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth, and she used to like Other Mommy until she changed. Other Mommy used to make her smile, but now …
“The town cares for devil’s work no more than it cares for God’s or man’s. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough,” (King 327). After some time on the run a terrified man and boy resolve that they must return to the small town of ‘Salem’s Lot they escaped from and face the evil that has …
“I will never forgive you, unless you find the murderer before the statute of limitations is up. If you can’t do that, then atone for what you’ve done, in a way I’ll accept. If you don’t do either one, I’m telling you here and now — I will have revenge on each and every one …
“A movie is a collection of beautiful lies that somehow add up to being the truth, or a truth. In this case an ugly one. But the first spoken line in any movie is not a lie and is always the truest,” (Tremblay 7). Only three scenes from the 1993 indie horror film Horror Movie ever made …
“Is it some disorder of the mind that causes me to see things, hear things, that then vanish as though they never were?” (Gish 230). Spinster Ada Byrd has just started a teaching position in Lowry Bridge, an isolated town where no one knows of her disgrace and shame from her last post. As she establishes …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “To grieve is to rot from the inside out,” (Pedersen). Estranged from his family for twenty-years, Nick Morrow returns to Stag Crossing, his family’s farmhouse in rural Nebraska, after receiving a call from his abusive father telling him he’s dying. But Nick isn’t the only …
“Hill House neither sleeps nor dreams. Shrouded within its overgrown lawns and sprawling woodlands, the long shadows of mountains and ancient oaks, Hill House watches. Hill House waits,” (Hand 3). Struggling playwright Holly Sherwin has just received a grant to develop her play, an adaption of The Witch of Edmonton, that may just bring her the success …
“Sometimes we let our truths rot in darkness to preserve the lies we tell in the light,” (“A Cure for Fear of Screaming,” Varghese 147). Varghese’s debut short story collection Chrysalis has gotten a lot of hype surrounded around it and it is deserved each and every one of them (including the numerous awards it has won). …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Influencer Program in exchange for an honest review. “That was the thing about families. They knew even the things you wanted to keep secret,” (Sambury). Grieving her mother’s sudden death, Sunny Behre knows she has what it takes to take up her role as leader of her family, as her …
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