The supernatural thriller, to me, has always been a small sliver of a genre, one that takes a careful hand. Some books tip into straight horror, while others bury their scary happenings in innuendo and the feeling that something bad—really bad—is going to happen. Some read like mysteries, while others are psychological portraits of haunted…
A Dangerous Collaboration, the fourth installment of Deanna Raybourn’s Veronica Speedwell Mysteries, has everything a mystery reader could want: a spooky castle on a shadowy isle, a missing bride, and a murderer. In their fourth outing, A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn, Veronica (the semi-legitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales) and Stoker (aka the Honourable Revelstoke…
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt, a modern-day ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, is an erotic Hitchcockian thriller evoking the dark atmospheric of a house that may be more than it seems . . . While You Sleep demands close attention to every detail because so many elements verge on the supernatural,…
The average person would be shocked—not to mention terrified—if objects suddenly started flying around their bedroom. If black figures began lurking in the corners, glimpsed only from the corner of the eye. If cabinets started slamming in the kitchen and malevolent voices whispered beneath the basement steps. Most would jump to a single explanation thanks…
A recently deceased girl must solve her own murder in order to escape purgatory in Bad Girl Gone. (Available August, 8 2017). Sixteen year-old Echo Stone awakens in a cold sweat in a dark room, having no idea where she is or how she got there. But she soon finds out she s in Middle…
The Supernaturals by David L. Golemon is a paranormal horror story that was named one of Riffle's top 10 best haunted house books of all time! The Halloween season is the perfect time for tales of haunted houses, forlorn ghosts, and demonic possession. All these things are pretty great any time of year, but the…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, things get a little spooky with one of Riffle's Ten Best Haunted House Books of All Time, David L. Golemon's The Supernaturals.
Fixin' to Die by Tonya Kappes is the 1st in the new Kenni Lowry Mystery series, introducing Sheriff Kenni Lowry and her ghostly grandfather that helps her keep crime out of Cottonwood, Kentucky (Available June 14, 2016). Kenni Lowry likes to think the zero crime rate in Cottonwood, Kentucky is due to her being sheriff,…
When I began drafting my debut novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, I had recently been studying in London on scholarship. One of the most striking experiences during my time there was taking a Jack the Ripper walking tour. Walking those literal haunts created the entire sub-plot of my book, which will…
