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Death isn't finished with them yet.
Super Feelings and Spreadsheets: Villain by Natalie Zina Walshots
Vanessa Armstrong reviews the complex sequel to Hench by Natalie Zina Walshots.
Killer Jobs: The Knife and The Waitress
Your part-time job might just be murder...
Found in Translation: Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book Censor’s Library
A satiric dystopia about censorship and art
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Surely, issues like traffic jams, speeding, and road rage can be solved through these creative s...
Read an Excerpt From The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen
An aspiring scholar is sent to research the mysteries of an adventurer’s inn, only to uncover a...
Light Work For A Starship: Mike Chen’s The Photonic Effect
Sasha Bonkowksy reviews a Trek-adjacent SF novel focusing on "the quieter side of space travel"...
Smoke and Mirrors: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 9)
Could tobacco make one's blood toxic to a vampire?
Five Horror Books Featuring Older Protagonists
From an aging Elvis Presley to a Final Girl in her late 70s, these characters spend their golden...
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A new horror novel arriving February 2027
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A man tries to protect his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them.
Coming Home to Roost: Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows
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No Agency Without Identity! Stay In Character Always!
Years after the death of the human it was supposed to help, a digital assistant wakes and search...
Trail Cam
Trail camera footage reveals the strange occurrences and dark secrets hiding in the woods surrou...
The Perpetual Post
A time-traveling transgalactic delivery worker's latest delivery has less to do with galactic ev...
This Is Not My Timeline
A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.
This Fleshy Side of the Bone
While mourning the sudden death of his family’s first dog, a college student recounts the tale o...
I Spin Records Into Gold
Amid the glitz and glamor of the 1970s American rock scene, a mysterious music exec promises an...
The Day-Blind Stars
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