Broken Monsters and other essential crime and horror crossovers

Max Booth III, author of The Nightly Disease, wrote up this cool piece for Crime Reads about some of his favourite books that blend crime and horror (because what are genre labels, anyway?). I’m honoured that he included Broken Monsters, alongside some other stupendous titles, like Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places, and North American Lake Monsters […]

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Book Riot’s creepy-houses book roundup

Today’s Halloween treat: Book Riot featured The Shining Girls on this list of 20 books about creepy houses. Other great reads on the list include A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, giant Toni Morison’s classic Beloved, and White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. Ann Foster writes: A time-traveling twist on creepy houses. Harper Curtis is […]

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My Pet Serial Killer loves The Shining Girls

Okay, okay, misleading headline, so the AUTHOR of My Pet Serial Killer, Michael J Seidlinger, wrote this excellent piece for Electric Literature about the serial killer trope and included The Shining Girls as one of eight books he recommends “where the serial killer becomes a vehicle for the author’s narrative vision”. Some of the others […]

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