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Things That Go Bump at the Dinner Table

Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror by Ellen Datlow (editor)

November 16, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

In this anthology of psychological horror, we encounter killers, madmen, and twisted families in this presentation of the many shades of human depravity. My preferred subgenre of horror is psychological horror. Here there’s no ghosts or curses or demons – just the strange and terrifying excesses of human nature. The horror is enhanced by the fact that, bar the occasional tinge of the supernatural, everything that happened in this book could happen in real life. All of the stories included in this book were originally […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: Anthology, ARC, crime, Ellen Datlow (editor), horror, NetGalley, psychological horror, short stories

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:72 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: Anthology, ARC, crime, Ellen Datlow (editor), horror, NetGalley, psychological horror, short stories ·
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Fish Fingers

Gyo by Junji Ito

November 15, 2025 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Gyo follows the increasingly grotesque misfortunes of Tadashi, a young man enjoying a seaside getaway with his girlfriend at his uncle’s coastal home when an inexplicably foul smell begins to fill the air. This isn’t your standard low-tide whiff — it’s an invasive, putrid stench that sends his already-germaphobic girlfriend into a spiral. Soon after, accompanied by strange swooshing noises, Tadashi spots the first of what becomes a full-blown invasion: a dead fish scuttling across the land on mechanical metal legs. From there, the story […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Junji Ito

Caesar's Wife's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Junji Ito ·
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We’re all mad here

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

November 12, 2025 by Jen K 2 Comments

I never would have picked this on my own – it was a book club choice. On the other hand, it definitely wasn’t boring and it was short. Hungerstone was the other horror novel set in 19th century England I read in October, and I will say as bonkers as Victorian Psycho, I also preferred it because it just kept me engaged – like a train wreck(Hungerstone was just kind of boring). As much as the narrator’s actions might make you cringe, there’s also just […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: gothic, victorian england, Virginia Feito

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:114 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: gothic, victorian england, Virginia Feito ·
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Topsy turvy and then some

The Flip Side: A Graphic Novel by Jason Walz

November 11, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Flip Side: A Graphic Novel is an unusual book that has all the feelings, but not the ones you might think of at first. They are the ones that we can share simultaneously, but at the same time, each of us have our own way of dealing with them. The first is grief and the second fear. Jason Walz shows us this through the eyes of two main characters. One, a boy who lost his best friend to (assuming) cancer (or other similar illness), […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Death, Depression, family social themes, friendship, grief, Jason Walz, paranormal

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:495 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Death, Depression, family social themes, friendship, grief, Jason Walz, paranormal ·
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Monsters on Ice

Frostbitten by Dietrich Stogner

November 10, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

This is an indie-published fantasy horror novel that I discovered because I follow the author on TikTok, and I liked what I was hearing. While I’m not sure it was quite what I was expecting, I really enjoyed it. When Tomas Greenleaf graduates at the top of his military class, he is promoted to captain and sent on a special assignment to Lahar, a small village in the remote, frozen middle-of-nowhere. However, he doesn’t really know why he’s there, and the villagers don’t want him […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: Dietrich Stogner, indie author

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:80 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: Dietrich Stogner, indie author ·
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“I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir.” CBRBINGO – Green (BINGO!)

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

November 10, 2025 by narfna 2 Comments

According to many Constant Readers, this is Uncle Stevie’s worst book, but I don’t agree! It is extremely flawed, but I also found it very readable (it probably helped that Edward Herrmann narrates the audiobook, and he is a wonderful audiobook narrator). This is sci-fi horror. A woman named Bobbie, a writer of western novels, finds a buried object in the ground and becomes obsessed with unearthing it. Doing so changes her and the town she lives in forever, and in really really creepy ways. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Featured, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, audiobooks, cbr17bingo, edward herrmann, horror, narfna, sci-fi, sci-fi horror, sff, speculative, Stephen King, the tommyknockers

narfna's CBR17 Review No:34 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, audiobooks, cbr17bingo, edward herrmann, horror, narfna, sci-fi, sci-fi horror, sff, speculative, Stephen King, the tommyknockers ·
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