Secret Horror

“The Whisper Man” by Alex North is a fast paced crime drama that at its core is about the relationships between fathers and sons and the terrible implications and legacy when that relationship is abused or broken.

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

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Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman and Melanconnie. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

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One of the best female detectives I have read in a while in “May The Wolf Die.” 

Elizabeth Heider writes one of the best female detectives I have read in a while in her book, “May The Wolf Die.”  Nikki is badass and skilled in all forms of fighting and will snap any bastard’s arms. Little that will do when she finds a bloated body of man in the sun-soaked waters of Naples. Then the body of an U.S. naval captain is discovered with a shady and terrible past. Are these two bodies connected?

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman and Melanconnie. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

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If you like eerie dream-like stories that make you wonder if you should be frightened or enchanted? Then Josh Malerman’s “A house at the bottom of the lake” is a book you should dive into. 

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman and Melanconnie. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

#horror #stories #scary #terror #horrific #fiction #creativewriting #booktok #reviews #bookreviews #tales #secret #podcast #podcaster #horrortok 

“The Decagon House Murders” is a Japanese mystery novel from 1987 by Yukito Ayatsuji. It's a classic “trapped in a room” mystery often compared to Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None”. This book kicked off the “honkaku” or “orthodox” mystery writing movement — focused on heavy plotting and helped restore the golden age of mysteries in Japan. 

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

#horror #booktok #horrortok #mystery #japan

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Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman and Melanconnie. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

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Andrei Codrescu performs Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee

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Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
   By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
   Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
   In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
   I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
   Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
   In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
   My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
   And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
   In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
   Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
   In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
   Of those who were older than we—
   Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
   Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
   Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
   In her sepulchre there by the sea—
   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

This is a simple questionnaire from Sara Gran’s book, “Come Closer”.  So, are you possessed? Write in the comments your score and if you need an exorcism?

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

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Let us return to hell. “The Divine Farce,” by Michael S.A. Graziano is an excellent companion piece to another “trapped in hell” novella called  “A Short Stay in Hell,” by Steven L. Peck. Both short books. Both set in a limbo dimension with no apparent conclusion except that you are stuck there for eternity. But, this is where they deviate. 

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

#horror #stories #scary #terror #horrific #fiction #creativewriting #booktok #reviews #bookreviews #tales #secret #podcast #podcaster #puzzle #hell #horrortok

I love haunted house stories like Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” where the house becomes a character: creepy and spooky. Or Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” where the castle embodies the terror and decay of the count. Well, why not a common, every day rest stop that you see in passing and pay no attention to unless you need to fill up your car with gas or yourself with candy and coffee? Can a rest stop be scary? Be careful as you step into Nat Cassidy’s novella, “Rest Stop” where he answers that question with insight and horror!

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

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Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

#horror #stories #scary #terror #horrific #fiction #creativewriting #booktok #reviews #bookreviews #tales #secret #podcast #podcaster #serial #snakes #horrortok

What else can be said about Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning post-apocalyptic novel, “The Road,” that has not already been said? Here is my take on this masterpiece which uses sparse but profoundly beautiful sentences to paint a bleak desperate future for the human race and the world. 

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

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Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

#horror #stories #scary #terror #horrific #fiction #creativewriting #booktok #reviews #bookreviews #tales #secret #podcast #podcaster #zombie #apocalypse #horrortok

“Come Closer” by Sara Gran, written in 2003, is an unexpected night plunge into insanity and schizophrenia. Or a post 9/11 rebellion against the mundane normality we fall into in our daily lives. Or could it be worse – demonic possession?

Here is our review and essay about the book. Limited spoilers ahead. More information at https://www.secrethorror.com

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Secret Horror presents scary stories from around the world. Also, horror reviews, interviews, and short form non-fiction tales of terror. 

Horror stories and the monsters created by them are a manifestation of the collective trauma a culture faces. If society cannot tell stories, then their horror will materialize into something worse.

Script and produced by Ram Devineni. Host Bob Holman. Music by Fabian Leonardo Cuellar. 

Secret Horror is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of New York State Governor and the New York State Legislature. https://www.secrethorror.com/

#horror #stories #scary #terror #horrific #fiction #creativewriting #booktok #reviews #bookreviews #tales #secret #podcast #podcaster #possession #demon #mysteries #mystery