Here are the books I’ve read, or read again, in the second part of 2023. My favorites, as usual, are marked with an asterisk. It’s been a really great year so far and I’ve got some highly anticipated titles on tap to start soon…
The Mother Wound by Jess Landry
Behold the Void by Philip Fracassi*
Madam Crowl’s Ghost & Other Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu
Beneath A Pale Sky by Philip Fracassi*
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans*
The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P. Ottone*
Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli*
Children of Demeter by EV Knight
Thrill Me by Benjamin Percy*
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson*
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli*
Split Scream: Vol. 3 by Patrick Barb and J.A.W. McCarthy*
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson*
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus*
The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard*
Agony’s Lodestone by Laura Keating*
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca*
The Angel of Rome And Other Stories by Jess Walter*
The Deceased by Tom Piccirilli*
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart*
Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith
Under the Hollywood Sign: The Collected Stories of Tom Reamy by Tom Reamy*
The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle*
As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions by Gordon B. White*
We Are Here To Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe*
Pre-Approved For Haunting and Other Stories by Patrick Barb*