Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Creepy, Unsettling, and Utterly Captivating

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

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I belong to a Mystery/Thriller Book Club, and we decided to choose a spooky book for the month of October. We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer (not to be confused with the other We Used to Live Here by Daniel Hurst that I also read and reviewed) is a creepy, unsettling maze of a story that leaves you with more questions than answers, but not in a frustrating way. Eve and her partner Charlie are flippers, and their newest house was billed as […]

Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), Pan Morigan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Editor)

Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue by Sheree Renée Thomas

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Well that’s a wrap for me for Halloween Bingo 2025. Last book. I can also say I am a little horror’ed out right now so am switching to some lighter stuff. I thought Trouble the Waters was really good. Some stories hit home and others legit made my skin crawl (that crawdad story still is freaking me out). Water Dreaming by Pan Morigan was a nice set up to this anthology. We are Called to the Water by Troy L. Wiggins gives us a different perspective of how precious […]

Southern Fried Vampires

Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan

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This is the story of a family of women (the Evans) in Southeast Texas whose family business is running the only funeral parlour in town.  Well, that is their main business, but their side hustle is killing the restless dead (vampires) who end up in their funeral home.  The Evans are standing between their town and the Strigoi, who occasionally show up.  But the latest round of undead really puts the family to the test, and unearths some family secrets rising up from the grave. […]

The movie scared me so bad it took 20 years to read the book.

Ring by Koji Suzuki

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This movie played a significant role in my life 20 years ago. I was a huge cinephile, and watched movies all the time. I don’t remember the exact sequence that led to me watching it for the first time, but this was the movie to watch if you were a fan of horror movies in the early 2000s. there was a florescence in Japanese horror that was kicked off by this movie, which, in turn, influenced movies being made around the world. And I enjoyed […]

Something’s Wrong

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

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I’m going to be honest; I picked this one up based on the cover alone.  And like they tell you not to do, I did sort of judge this book by its cover. Well, the cover and the first section of the book. And I thought I’d be dealing with a short set of vignettes about pulp horror monsters in space. Turns out that was a bit of a lowball there—there is actually a story arc that we follow throughout the book.  Poor Dementer, has […]

New England Gothic Horror

A Wild and Hungry Place by EE Ottoman

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I am not a brave soul when it comes to horror, so it is a recommendation in itself that I finished EE Ottoman’s A Wild and Hungry Place. Did I read this with my hands over my eyes at times? Yes I did. Did I actually enjoy the creepy tension? Surprisingly, yes. It is gorgeous and genuinely scary. There is a curse, poisonings, stabbings, cannibalism, ghosts, lycanthropy, and something that should have been left slumbering undisturbed. Cricket is newly widowed and invites herself to live with […]



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