Horror Book Reviews

Exit, by Julian Boote, is a terrifying read that will keep you up well after your bedtime. And you might want to leave the lights on.

A group of thieves receive a frightening message during a midnight heist: The wage of sin is death. During the robbery, a swarm of hooded individuals trap them inside an abandoned Cold War nuclear bunker. The compound is vast and cutoff from the outside world. As the thieves begin to realize they are trapped they learn another scary fact. The people in hoods are vigilantes that will stop at nothing to get their […]

The Haunted Trail is the debut horror title by John C Lukegord, telling the tale of a streak of (fictional, or is it?) murders occurring in 1892 along an eponymous “haunted trail” in the backwoods of Dublin, perpetrated by the “crazy” and “inbred” mental patients et al that lurked within. The book covers several of these incidents, along with the actions of the community, a handful of ghosts, and an unfortunate clown. Together, the mystery of the haunted trail begins to unwind, but at what cost?

At first impressions, The Haunted Trail seems to be a a smorgasbord of mismatched […]

Jericho Coleman is a typical enough six-year-old boy living with his parents in their old Victorian house. Typical enough, until the day his father descends into a brutal rage, killing his mother and chasing Jericho down. His salvation comes in a mysterious voice that calls to him, and with the striking of a deal, his father is found hanging in front of him, dead, by the clawed hand of a stranger. Eventually the stranger returns, and reveals himself to be a demon – Mavado – now in union with Jericho, as per their pact. Things spiral out of control as […]