“New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? Tillie can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. … Continue reading
Tag Archives: thriller
Wolf Winter (2014) #25DaysofCreepmas
This is the closest thing to “non” horror on this list. We’ll call it a historical thriller mystery with….a murder. That’s horrific right? Set in the 1700s, a family moves in order to start anew. Unfortunately, they’re soon faced with the grisly business of a dead neighbor, one that was supposedly attacked by wolves. The … Continue reading
The Winter People #25DaysofCreepmas
This is another novel from McMahon that uses two time periods to tell a startling story. Back in 1908, a woman is found dead behind her house just months after the death of her daughter. Now, a mother of two girls goes missing and it’s up to her oldest to decipher the mystery spiraling out … Continue reading
Mistletoe (2019) #25DaysofCreepmas
Alone in a big, empty house by a smoldering fire is probably one of the most haunting feelings. Mistletoe imitates it perfectly. And you bet your sweet ass this is another Gothic, Neo-Victorian ghost story. Suffering from grief, a widow purchases a new home in time for snow fall and finds herself tormented by beings … Continue reading
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (2015) Review
Leonora Shaw has been invited to a bachelorette party. The bride? Someone she hasn’t spoken to in 10 years, 10 years ago when she left everything painful behind.Catching herself by surprise, she agrees to go and in turn, is shacked up with strangers in a strange glass house for an entire strange, trying weekend. And … Continue reading
‘It Follows’ Seals its Fate as an Instant Horror Classic
Bringing a new sense of horror to the genre, David Robert Mitchell’s freshest production It Follows provokes both thought and terror. A young woman’s sexual encounter with a seemingly normal boy is soon turned into an unreal nightmare as she is told that he has passed it onto her-and it will follow her until she passes … Continue reading