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Book Review – Mazywood by Tananarive Due
Johnny grandson of the famous black actress Mazelle Washington and a filmmaker in his own right brings his family to Mazywood aka Bear Creek Lodge the secluded California mountain lodge she built and left behind as her legacy. He expects to have a quiet weekend with the family relaxing and having fun in the snow instead they discover generations of secrets and a terror that has haunted the family for generations. This was great and that is a very small word for a big ol’ book of fantasticness. The is a multigenerational literary thriller and survival horror novel told across two timelines. We follow Mazy from her childhood through specific…
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Something is Wrong with these Houses
Haunted House novels are uniquely unsettling, at least I think so. They’re one of my favourite types of horror novels, and I don’t mean ghosts or creaking floor boards, I mean houses that feel alive in the worst ways. Houses that leap off the page, that watch you from the margins, that remember and slowly begin to close around the people trapped inside them, that drag you in as well. Haunted house stories are some of my favourite kinds of horror because the setting becomes part of the nightmare itself. The walls feel wrong. The rooms shift. Reality starts slipping sideways, and the longer the characters stay, the more impossible…
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Weird Girl Horror You Need to Read
Sometimes you just need a different type of comfort read, Sometimes I need a book thats a little . . . Different. There’s something about weird girl horror that just hits differently. Not the final girl. Not the scream queen. But the girl who is a little off, a little obsessive, a little too interested in things she probably shouldn’t be. These are stories about girls who unravel, girls who consume (sometimes literally), girls who don’t behave the way they’re supposed to, and honestly? That’s where the horror gets good, where it gets captivating, where it gets unputdownable. If you’re looking for horror that’s unsettling, feminine, feral, and just a…
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