The Unhaunting review: Micaiah Johnson flips the haunted house in a cold, clever Southern Gothic horror novel. Slow to start, nasty once it bites. Four stars.

What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms…

A Literary Escape's September 2026 book blog wrap-up that recaps reviews posted, books read, and other bookish tidbits done during the month.

Recollections from an Author’s First Year Though it pains me somewhat to acknowledge the fact, my début book, Why Q Needs U, was released into the wild one year ago. I’m certainly keen to celebrate…

Source: Review copy from No Exit Press for the Random Things blog tour – thank you! I jumped at the opportunity to read this Irish crime debut from Mark Gyves, loving contemporary Irish ficti…

Today it’s over to Mandie who has her review of The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen, which is so wonderfully translated by David Hackston. With thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for t…

Alt: It's the scene from Only Fools and Horses where Del Boy & Rodney Trotter are poised to catch a chandelier with a tarp, but the chandelier just behind them is the one that's unscrewed from above, and crashes to the ground instead.

In a city of ancient automata, strange spirits, and sleeping gods, a cleric of death finds his own life on the line in this vividly imagined fantasy murder mystery from the acclaimed author of The Bon...

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It is commonly believed that the first corporations were English and Dutch trading corporations from the 1600s. But Germain Sicard, in an overlooked 1952 thesis, argued that the first corporations... ...

I always look forward to reading a book in Doug Johnstone’s Skelfs series. Ghost Notes is the seventh in the series and I feel I’ve got to know the Skelf women pretty well by now. That …