Book Review: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: September 23, 2014
Library: Yup, I checked this book out from myself

Synopsis

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.

Can't Wait Wednesday: The Black Girl Survives in This One Edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

 

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. Find out more here.

Another horror book. I really can't help myself even in the holiday season. 

Review: Lone Women

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Publisher One World Penguin Random House
Publication Date March 28, 2023
Library Purchase We purchased this in our digital catalog

Synopsis

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.

The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so

Review: What Stalks Among Us

 

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell
Publisher Clarion Books
Publication Date September 12, 2023
Genre Horror
Library Purchase It's already in the cart

Synopsis

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously creepy YA speculative thriller about two best friends trapped in a corn maze with corpses that look just like them. 

Best friends and high school seniors Sadie and Logan make their first mistake when they ditch their end-of-year field trip to the amusement park in favor of 

Review: Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons
Publisher: Tor Teen
Release date: October 10, 2023
Library purchase: I'm almost mad I have to wait. Purchase for sure

Synopsis

Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived.

Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors―Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax―have reunited for one strange and terrible they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead.