I know, I know: I'm late to the party in loving the work of horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin. But now that I've discovered her work, and have read the second of her three available novels, I'm very excited to see what else she comes up with. I'm not sure how far into it I'll go, but this is your obligatory spoiler warning. Black Flame is my latest foray into her work, and I was even more engrossed in the story than I was with Cuckoo . In that work, things get pretty gory and cosmic...

I discovered Stephen Graham Jones with My Heart Is a Chainsaw , which I desperately need to reread before starting on the other two books in that trilogy, a fantastically bloody homage to 80s slashers and final girls. He has a couple of novellas that I've picked up on my various trips to the Horror aisle of Barnes and Noble, and over Christmas I decided to dive into one of them, Mapping the Interior , and finished it within the day. As always, spoilers ahead. Jones gets right to it: Junior,...

Like any good book person, my TBR pile ("to be read" for those who don't stack books around like furniture, planning but never quite succeeding to finish one before buying another) grows by at least three every time I make it to a Barnes and Noble. I love a sniff around a used bookstore, and never seem to come home empty-handed. All this to say, I have managed to pick up all three of Gretchen Felker-Martin's novels, Cuckoo , Manhunt , and Black Flame on different trips without realizing...