Stirring the Sheets
10 best books like Stirring the Sheets (Chad Lutzke): Will Haunt You, The Sea Was a Fair Master, The Nightmare Girl, I Am Not Your Final Girl, Halloween Fiend, Creatures of Want and Ruin, In The River, Out Behind the Barn, Rabid Heart, Dead of Winter
| Author | Brian Kirk |
| ISBN | 1787581365 |
You don't read the book. It reads you.
Rumors of a deadly book have been floating around the dark corners of the deep web. A disturbing tale about a mysterious figure who preys on those who read the book and subjects them to a world of personalized terror. Jesse Wheeler--former guitarist of the...
The world’s fate lies with a comatose young girl; an android wants to remember a human she once knew under Martian skies; men at sea learn that the ocean is a realm far different from land, where an unforgiving god rules; a school security guard discovers extreme English class; and a man understands...
| Author | Jonathan Janz |
| ISBN | 1787581292 |
When family man Joe Crawford confronts a young mother abusing her toddler, he has no idea of the chain reaction he's setting in motion. How could he suspect the young mother is part of an ancient fire cult, a sinister group of killers that will destroy anyone who threatens one of its members? When the little...
From Claire C. Holland, a timely collection of poetry that follows the final girl of slasher cinema - the girl who survives until the end - on a journey of retribution and reclamation. From the white picket fences of 1970s Haddonfield to the apocalyptic end of the world, Holland confronts the role of women...
| Author | C.V. Hunt |
| ISBN | 1941918433 |
Strang isn’t the small, quaint town it appears to be. It’s haunted every night by a creature the townsfolk refer to as Halloween. Once the sun sets each day, Halloween emerges to collect its treats: a small, live offering from each household. The residents comply because no one wants to be the target...
Creatures of Want and Ruin
| Author | Molly Tanzer |
| ISBN | 1328710254 |
Amityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. It's dangerous work under Prohibition--independent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alike--but Ellie's brother was accepted to college and Ellie's desperate to see him go. So desperate...
| Author | Jeremy Robert Johnson |
"In the River is a brilliant offering; the pain and strange beauty of it will wash over you and sweep you away."―Scream Magazine
"Gripping, horrifying, surreal...Think The Old Man and the Sea meets The Pearl meets Pet Sematary...But, dare I say it, In the River takes you to even darker places..."―Verbicide...
| Author | John Boden |
| ISBN | 1727414020 |
(Thank you to the authors for sending me an advance copy in exchange for an honest review)
Oh my heart! Let me whip out my Horror Boxes Checklist and explain how in just over 100 pages, Chad Lutzke and John Boden seamlessly blended their unique, yet harmonious storytelling voice to tell a tale...
How far would you go for love when all you love is DEAD?
Six months after the Necro Rabies pandemic has turned the world into hordes of rabid undead known as "Cujos," 21 year-old Rhonda Driscoll discovers her zombified fiancé, Brad, in her old hometown.
Fearing that her Marine Colonel...
| Author | Kealan Patrick Burke |
A boy becomes convinced that there is something not right about the snowmen in his yard...A man takes drastic steps to reconcile with his estranged daughters on Christmas Eve...Santa Claus takes a ride into the heart of darkness...A widower joins the search for a missing woman in an eerily deserted...
| Author | Stephen Gregory |
| ISBN | 1565049187 |
A young family receives a surprise when old Uncle Ian dies and leaves them a cottage in north Wales. For Ian’s nephew and his wife Ann, it seems a stroke of incredible good fortune, enabling them to leave their life in the city for a newfound freedom in the remote seaside cottage. There’s just one catch....
4.5!
UNMEMORY has a lot of great things going for it. First of all, it's written by one of the best voices in horror today, Kristi DeMeester. Over the last year or so, I've become quite the fan.
This short story is also packaged in a chapbook format which I think is really collectible and unique-it...
