763. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories — Reading Rangers

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-763-throughthe-night-likea-snake/SandF_763_ThroughtheNightLikeaSnake.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Stitcher | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWeird Kermit, questionable friends, and terrifying dogs, oh my! Shaun Duke and Daniel Haeusser join forces to discuss Through the Night Like a Snake, a new collection of Latin American horror stories (in […]

Book Review: THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD by Gwendolyn Kiste

Cover of The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste. Features a person standing abovfe a lake that reflects two people, at sunset or sunrise.

The Haunting of Velkwood is an interesting take on the haunted house trope, one that blurs the lines between who are the living and who are the ghosts and expands the supernatural milieu from a building or property to an entire community block.

Book Review: What Feasts at Night

Cover of What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher. Features a partial horse skeleton against a red background.

As always, Kingfisher does a wonderful job immersing the reader in whatever environment she’s describing; I was reveling in the description of the countryside from the first page. 

Book Review: 12 HOURS by L. Marie Wood

Cover, 12 Hours by L. Marie Wood. Illustration by Lynne Hansen features a cab parked in an alley, with some people approaching with lights.

The reader of L. Marie Wood’s short novella 12 Hours will realize what has happened to this cabbie long before he grasps the truth about himself. And that’s an integral part of the construction of the novella, of how Wood is directing the reader’s emotions and connection to her protagonist through his psychological horror.

Book Review: CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HORRORS, Edited by Ellen Datlow

Cover of Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology

… [The] majority (even those that might be set around Christmas) are really about solstice, that moment when the sun stops on its journey across Earth’s skies to change course. As many traditions of modern Christmas celebration are really appropriation and secularization of more ancient pagan festivities, several stories could be seen from either or combined perspectives.