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Happy Pride Month to everyone who has ever picked up a novel and thought, "this would be even better if they were girlfriends." 💕⚔️⁣

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HELLO, I just learned that a friend from college has a novella coming out next year from Tor Nightfire!!!

Morsel by Carter Keane (April 14, 2026)

The Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual, with a generous helping of The Menu, in Morsel, a delicious folk horror novella perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Paul Tremblay.

Lou did what the children of parents with back-breaking, poor paying jobs are supposed to - pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office job with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their multi-level marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment.

Determined to lift her ill mother out of poverty before it's too late, and in the spirit of climbing the corporate ladder, Lou accepts an assignment in the rural hills of Ohio. She quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, a dog she’s determined to keep safe, and something stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.

If she can’t escape the woods in time, she’ll come face to face with the fact that her job isn’t the only thing that wants to eat her alive.

Morsel is a chilling testament to the burden of generational poverty and the all-consuming nature of capitalism, where the monster and the monstrous, in the end, are not the same.

[elliepassmore]

Morsel review + release!

4/5 stars Recommended if you like: Appalachian Gothic, cults, horror, monsters, folk horror

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Big thanks to Tor Nightfire, Netgalley, and the author for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

TW gore, harm to animals

First, I'll start by saying that gory horror is not really my thing. I had issues with The Haar because of it, though I will say that this book is significantly less gory, but it is something that tends to bring ratings down for me. I like monster horror, I even like people getting eaten, what I do not like heads exploding and guts spilling. Thankfully that was overall a pretty minor part of the book, but it was one that I didn't enjoy.

Moving on to the rest of the story, I liked the vague Appalachian Gothic vibes we got once the plot really got moving. We kind of get a hint that there's something weird about the property Lou is going to survey because we get 'interludes' between some of the chapters, and one of those interludes is a crime podcast that mentions a weird missing person's case, so it's not all that surprising that Lou arrives at the property to find weird symbols hanging around.

I actually don't think Lou made that terrible of a decision going onto the property anyway. As anyone from the Appalachian region can tell you, there are lots of folk beliefs in the more rural areas, so wooden symbols hanging on a gate really isn't that weird. Serial killer associations aside, of course. I really do think Lou did her best to make common sense decisions as much as she could, the situation she finds herself in is just really, really weird. Also, she's totally right about new development suburbia.

As someone who tends to prefer speculative horror, I'm not sure how much I liked the horror here being super concrete. I like it when things are weird (and when there's a lot more plants or body horror involved), so having something concete to run from is a little less interesting to me. However, we do get a speculative element since it's not totally clear what is going on in the woods until closer to the end of the book.

I will say, this book reminded me a bit of Black Sheep , which I also didn't totally love. I do feel like the cult piece kind of came out of nowhere and I'm not really sure it actually added anything to the book. I think it would've made a lot more sense to keep the main bad guy, keep the motive, but have things be more centered around the motive than the cult itself. I actually think the cult gets in the way of the theme of the book a little bit, because it turns the story into a cult book rather than a story about the world taking bites out of you until you either die or start biting back. Because of the way things play out with the cult, I also feel like the author lost some opportunities to really weave the message into the story. The way it is now, I at times felt like I was getting hit over the head with the theme because Keane didn't have any other way to get the message across except for explicitly, and I think the book would've been stronger with some more subtlety.

[brokehorrorfan]

Cuckoo will be published on March 19, 2024 via Tor Nightfire. It’s the second book by Gretchen Felker-Martin, whose Manhunt ranked #1 on Vulture’s list of best books of 2022.

The 320-page horror novel will be available in paperback, e-book, and audio book. Set in the late ‘90s, the story follows a group of queer kids as they attempt to survive in a conversion camp.

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of kidnapped kids try to stay true to themselves while serving time in a conversion camp from hell. In the late 90s, five queer kids, whose parents want them “fixed,” find themselves thrown together at a secretive "tough love" camp deep in the scorching Utah desert. Tormented and worked to the point of collapse by hardline religious zealots intent on straightening them out, they slowly become aware that something in the mountains north of the camp is speaking to them in their dreams, and that the children who return home to their families have...changed.

Pre-order Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin.

[cottagecore-zenith]

Just finished Sister Maiden Monster and it was so fucking wild. Religious apocalypse with zombies and a kind of... erotica horror breeder kink thing going on?

It was deeply graphic & fucked up- I don't think I've have a book make me feel sick to my stomach like this since reading To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger. But it also hit that catharsis button so hard? Like I feel clean after wallowing through the mire. Reading this book was a whole experience. Also, it's so delightfully gay.

[smashpages]

Out this week: Where Black Stars Rise (Tor Nightfire, $19.99):

This new graphic novel by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger is about a newly licensed therapist who ends up being dragged into another dimension while treating a patient’s night terrors. 

See what other comics and graphic novels are arriving in comic shops this week.

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Review: Lute by Jennifer Marie Thorne

Review: Lute by Jennifer Marie Thorne

Author: Jennifer Marie ThornePublisher: Tor NightfireReleased: October 4, 2022Received: NetGalley What would you do if you were promised a perfect and safe life – on the condition that you and everyone you love had to face grave danger once every seven years? I imagine most of us would be more worried about the catch, thanks to our obsession with the cost of bargains. Enter the tale of Lute,…

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All the Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022 - Tor Nightfire

Get your TBR list ready: we've rounded up all of 2022's new horror books from Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu, Gabino Iglesias, Cassandra Khaw, and many more!

if anyone’s a horror fan, this comprehensive list of 2022 titles should be right up their alley 👀