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Fat Futurism, Anxious Death Monks, Familial Demons, Ariadne Gets Revenge, and Destructive Wedding Vows - Reviews

Scream Gets a Makeover, Inheritance Feels Somehow More Reptilian, Fae-Touched Hottie Ghosts, and Queer Desire in the 21st Nightmare - Reviews

Violet's Favorite Reads of 2025 - by Violet James McMaster

The World Was Not Made for Ones Like You: Autism, Colonialism, and Violence in "Hollow" and "You Weren't Meant to Be Human" - Reviews

"Pain always finds the one it belongs to." - The Madness at the Heart of Hailey Piper's "A Game in Yellow" - Review & Interview

"This isn't the home I imagined it would be" - Facing the Void in Chuck Tingle's Lucky Day - Review

Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Melissa Lozada-Oliva is One of Our Greatest Literary Treasures

Sisterly Bloodlust, Feminine Revenge, Queer Lineages, Messy Transness, Defying Your Demons, & One Hell of a Family Intervention - Reviews

"Because I want to go back. Even if it scares me. Maybe because it scares me." - Finding Home in Rachel Harrison's "Play Nice"

"You Black Robes know about drinking blood, don't you?" - Stephen Graham Jones's Colonial Nightmare in "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter"

Where The Shadows Quiver Like the Static of Lightning Behind Clouds - A Review of Ai Jiang's "A Palace Near the Wind"

The Girls, Gays, Theys, & Roosters Are Not Alright - Reviews feat. Sarah Langan, Hache Pueyo, Lucy Rose, Briar Ripley Page, Sophie Lewis, & Shū Sakuratani

The Power of Sisterly Love, A New, Spookier Room 1408, F*ng*rb**sting On the High Seas, and New Hangouts for Weirdos - Reviews feat. Amal El-Mohtar, Erika T. Wurth, Cailtlin Marcaeu, Mariana Enríquez

Stories as Soft-Spoken Warnings: Mourning, Disappearance, & the Thin Places Where Women Have Come to Dwell in Cynthia Pelayo's "Vanishing Daughters"

Fairytales of Fear, Fatherhood, & Foundation - The Ghost at the Back of Your Closet in Nat Cassidy's "When the Wolf Comes Home"

The Seductive Ache of Obsession - Cosmically Toxic Situationships, Beloved Spirits, Heroic Healing, Promiscuous Pirates, & Automated Gods - Reviews

Supernatural Conservatism, Sinister Staircases, Groovy Witches, Uninvited Evening Guests, Mirrored Reality, & An Extremely Unfortunate Town - Reviews

A Hopeful, Cautious Ushering Into 2025 - Reviews

Now I Wonder How Whatsername Has Been - 20 Years of Green Day’s Unintentionally Trans Classic

My 100 Favorite Books of 2024

Horror Baked In the Loam, Unfortunate Bathroom Breaks, Coming of Age in Hoodoo, Witches Giving Stitches, Demons Getting Into Construction, & A Revolution of Words - Reviews

Liberation for Some is Not Liberation for All...and Yes, That Includes Vampires - A Review of Hailey Piper's "All the Hearts You Eat"

Donate to Help Yasmin and Yehia to rebuild their life , organised by Aziza Yehia

Snakes for Satan, Nature Fights Back, Unhinged Horror Essays, A Beloved Cartoon Psychopath, The Worst House Ever, & Connections to Our Past - Reviews

Trauma Bites With the Sharpest Teeth - Reviews feat. Kiersten White, CJ Leede, Brian McAuley, Suzan Palumbo, Sam Sax, Elliott Gish, Mason Coile, Alyson Hasson, Lena Valencia, & Lindy Ryan

And We Thought High School Was a Nightmare; Try Being a Ghost Hunter - A Review of "Haunting Melody" by Chloe Spencer

Help a Memaw of 4 Keep Her House Fundraiser

Obsession, Clowns, Cosmic Bouquets, Vampires, Childhood Body Horror, Normalizing S*x Work, and MORE VAMPIRES - Reviews

Your Summer TBR is Calling, And Mama Vi is Here to Help!

"Soon, you won't remember anything. Your real name, your superpowers. You won't even remember that you're dying." A Exploration of Race and Class in "I Saw the TV Glow"

The Intimate Relation of Faith & Horror, Surreal Queer Depravity, Not Your Mother's Mermaid, A Child's True Nightmare, A Song to Destroy the World, and Fatherhood at the Intersections of Whiteness - Reviews

Night of the Living Identities - A Review of Chuck Tingle's "Bury Your Gays"

MEET THE READER: Violet James McMaster | Sadie (Mother Horror)

Vi The Librarian - Reviews, Musings, Everything Books

Ya'know, to Become Your True Self, Ya Gotta End Some Li...I Mean...Break a Few Eggs. - A Review of Emma E. Murray's "Crushing Snails"

Sexy Queers, Messy Queers, Teleportation, & Other Chaotic Tendencies - Reviews feat R.O. Kwon, Akwaeke Emezi, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Samantha Mineroff, Joshua Millican, and Clay McLeod Chapman

A Unique Dive Into Creativity, Stories to Make Alvin Scwartz Blush, Trans Folk Horror Sexiness, and Bad Girls Badding Badly - Reviews feat. Christopher Zeischegg, Laura Keating, Lee Mandelo, & Juliet Escoria

Death Goes on Strike, the Anti-Colonial Moby Dick We’ve Needed for Years, Modern Dating is a Nightmare, Revenge is a Dish Best Served Domestic, and Blasphemy Gets Even Gayer - Reviews

Just an Eclectic Collection of Reviews feat. Lindy Ryan, Khaholi Bailey, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Chris Panatier, Tayi Tibble, & Cynthia Gómez

F@#%k Through, We're Going Out In All Directions - A Review of Sofia Ajram's "Coup de Grâce"

Redemption By Way of Fire & Blood - Reviews feat. Catherine McCarthy, Nick Medina, Paul Tremblay, Beth Hetland, and M. Lopes da Silva

Poetry Roundup feat. Kaveh Akbar, Noor Hindi, Emily August, & Danez Smith

Women Are Terrifying and I Love Them - Reviews feat. Emma E. Murray, Angela Sylvaine, & Julia Fine

What in the Actual Living Heck is Happening? - Reviews featuring Drew Huff, Kyle Winkler, Katherine Dunn, Remy Oliver, & Steph Nelson

Legacy, Anxiety, Neurodivergence, and Identity - The Endless Battle With White Supremacy - Reviews

Jewish Folklore, A Gender Creative Artist, and a Big Ole' Mouth in the Ground - Reviews

Cranberries, Love, Lies, and Obsession. Perfect Recipe for a Valentine's Day? - Reviews

Why is Grief Horror Having a Big Moment? - Reviews

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The Painful Nostalgia of Suburbia - A Review of Gwendolyn Kiste's "The Haunting of Velkwood"

The Midwest Has Never Felt So Terrifying - The Deliciously Disturbed Worlds of Chloe Spencer

Vi The Librarian - Reviews, Musings, Everything Books

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