Recent Reads: Two Mini Horror Reviews
This post contains affiliate links, which means that we’ll earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links. “This place breathed untold stories.” 📚 Welcome to Meadowbrook by Cassandra L. Thompson , a gripping, macabre, and atmospheric historical/sci-fi/gothic horror amalgam spanning 154 years of one building’s many iterations as asylum, hotel, casino, retreat, and school. A story of stories with shifting viewpoints and time periods that gradually unveils sinister secrets, dark histories, curated lies, labyrinthine realities, and horrifying legends. Eerie, creepy, gruesome, visceral, mind-bending, and time-melding complete with unique rules and world-building surrounding themes of freedom, mortality, and luxury that can be read forward or backward, if you dare! “Give them no rest beloved Virgin for we ourselves have none.” 📚 Woodworm by Layla MartÃnez , a brutal, rage-filled tale of fraught familial histories, class wars, generational trauma, shadows, specters, cu