A place for my reviews of upcoming and current titles across the spectrum of genre and media, as well as other cultural criticisms and musings that follow in that wake.

Trauma Bites With the Sharpest Teeth - Reviews feat. Kiersten White, CJ Leede, Brian McAuley, Suzan Palumbo, Sam Sax, Elliott Gish, Mason Coile, Alyson Hasson, Lena Valencia, & Lindy Ryan

As I glide into the final days of September, I have to say I'm super glad the month is over. It's been an intensely busy month between moving, weddings, activities, and celebrations and little bean is exhausted. A lovely month, just very busy. Regardless, I am

And We Thought High School Was a Nightmare; Try Being a Ghost Hunter - A Review of "Haunting Melody" by Chloe Spencer

Blessed early Samhain to you all. It's your beloved book reviewer, arriving on a creepy carriage driven by skeletal horsepower to bring you a review in collaboration with Pride Book Tours. They provide sign-ups as a means of supporting queer authors by creating little virtual Bookstagram tours for

Obsession, Clowns, Cosmic Bouquets, Vampires, Childhood Body Horror, Normalizing S*x Work, and MORE VAMPIRES - Reviews

Hello, beloveds. I'm so sorry it's been a minute. Moving to Philadelphia has been a hectic undertaking BUT I'm glad to be doing so. The good news, however, is despite the chaos, I'm still reading! My god, 2024 has been an insane

Queer Gods, Sexy Eldritch Pirates, Revenge Smells Fishy, Time Hopping Anticolonialism, White Apocalypse, and Scarecrow Labor Rights - Reviews

As summer begins its steady death throes to transform into the best season of the year (fight me), it's only fitting that nothing at all changes on this blog. Because let's be honest, I review horror all year-round, so it's just a bit more

Your Summer TBR is Calling, And Mama Vi is Here to Help!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, mama is SO behind on reviews!! As I'm sure most of you have seen over the last month I had been gearing up for our Dark Ink event at Doylestown. I'm still reeling from the success of the day and I thank everyone whose been

"Soon, you won't remember anything. Your real name, your superpowers. You won't even remember that you're dying." An Exploration of Race and Class in "I Saw the TV Glow"

I'm going to try something a little different today. Earlier this year I wrote a piece reviewing Mike Flannagan's stellar Poe adaptation Fall of the House of Usher, which leaned much more toward my old school cultural criticism roots. Not that those roots have deteriorated, my

The Intimate Relation of Faith & Horror, Surreal Queer Depravity, Not Your Mother's Mermaid, A Child's True Nightmare, A Song to Destroy the World, and Fatherhood at the Intersections of Whiteness - Reviews

Woof, it has been a hectic few weeks. Trying to finish this review piece was hell in a handbasket, but WE MADE IT BABYY!! Also, I wanted to take my time because these are some in-depth books, and I wanted to offer them the attention they justly deserve. Below are

Night of the Living Identities - A Review of Chuck Tingle's "Bury Your Gays"

It's a sunny and decently well-temperate day in Philadelphia. Often on days following heat-waves or other extreme weather, I find myself taking the world in anew. While this sometimes feels rather silly, given that no true change has taken place, it could in part be due to a

Ya'know, to Become Your True Self, Ya Gotta End Some Li...I Mean...Break a Few Eggs. - A Review of Emma E. Murray's "Crushing Snails"

Emma E. Murray is having a hell of a year. Just a few months ago, her little novelette of sapphic rage revenge, When the Devil, burst onto the scene from Shortwave Press. But she's not quite done with us, as this August will see the release of debut

Sexy Queers, Messy Queers, Teleportation, & Other Chaotic Tendencies - Reviews feat R.O. Kwon, Akwaeke Emezi, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Samantha Mineroff, Joshua Millican, and Clay McLeod Chapman

I hesitate to make any well-wishes concerning Pride. While June is indeed a time to celebrate the queer community, there are still thousands of people dying at the hands of the Zionist settler-colonial project. Some people would rather benignly ignore the ongoing genocides perpetrated across the world, however many folks

A Unique Dive Into Creativity, Stories to Make Alvin Scwartz Blush, Trans Folk Horror Sexiness, and Bad Girls Badding Badly - Reviews feat. Christopher Zeischegg, Laura Keating, Lee Mandelo, & Juliet Escoria

The only downside to giving myself breaks from stressing about constant review posts is that I then have so many reviews to catch up on. Is this going to stop me from continuing to review, despite this fact? Absolutely NOT. Today, we once again focus our energy not into tying

Death Goes on Strike, the Anti-Colonial Moby Dick We’ve Needed for Years, Modern Dating is a Nightmare, Revenge is a Dish Best Served Domestic, and Blasphemy Gets Even Gayer - Reviews

In a bid to get caught up, we’re keeping the review train a-chugging, and boy do we have some fascinating titles on deck today! Religious trauma, lost political manuscripts from WWII (not clickbait in the slightest), even some gothic revenge of both land and sea with some translated work