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“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito

October 3, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

It fascinates me, the fact that human have the capacity to mortally wound one another at will, but for the most part, choose not to. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House, the familial home of the Pounds family, fully prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, teach them about the French Revolution, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines dealing with the dreary family, the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:130 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito ·
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“That is horrifying and I want to go home,” I said, although I pronounced it, “Ah, I see.”

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) by T. Kingfisher

October 2, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Alex Easton is never going to get a break. First, it’s childhood friends of theirs getting slowly consumed by sentient mushrooms. Then it was nearly being killed by something that haunted dreams. And now, it’s America. They never wanted to visit America, especially an abandoned West Virginian coal mine that very well may be haunted. But when Dr. Denton, old friend and fellow survivor of the mushroom horror of Usher House, asks them to help find his cousin―who went missing in that very mine―well, what […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: mining, not the dog!, so many pronouns, t kingfisher

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:128 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: mining, not the dog!, so many pronouns, t kingfisher ·
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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Carrie-ish

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

September 29, 2025 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I saw Robin Hood, Men in Tights before I saw Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. And I read The Weight of Blood before I read Carrie. And honestly, I think I made the right choice! I can’t imagine reading a story like Carrie from the perspective of a white guy in the 1970s, no matter how many times he claps back at JKR. I had some preconceived notions about this book – mainly I thought it was […]

Filed Under: Featured, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: #remix, biracial heroine, horror, Reboot, remake, segregation, Stephen King, Tiffany D. Jackson, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR17 Review No:48 · Genres: Featured, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: #remix, biracial heroine, horror, Reboot, remake, segregation, Stephen King, Tiffany D. Jackson, YA, Young Adult ·
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Cover of Fucked Up Fairytales

Returning Fairytales to Their Roots – Stories that are NOT for Kids

F*cked Up Fairy Tales by Liz Gotauco

September 28, 2025 by Emmalita 2 Comments

When Liz Gotauco (aka cosbrarian) announced last year that her F*cked Up Fairytales with Liz video series was coming to us in book form, I got very excited. When the arc showed up on NetGalley, I smashed the request button hard. When the e-arc showed up on my kindle, I started to read it very slowly, because in 2025, joy should be savored. F*cked Up Fairytales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings and Other Timeless Classics is everything I hoped it would be. F*cked Up Fairy Tales […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, History, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: F*cked Up Fairy Tales, Liz Gotauco

Emmalita's CBR17 Review No:74 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, History, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: F*cked Up Fairy Tales, Liz Gotauco ·
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“Magic Is the First and Last Religion of the World. It Has the Power to Make Us Whole.”

Imajica by Clive Barker

September 28, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Damn, the effort I have gone to in my search for a book that fits the “I” square! I went through a bit of a horror-reading phase in my early twenties, and Clive Barker was one of the authors I had on rotation. But I never did pick up his fantasy doorstopper Imajica—I think I was just a little too intimidated. But in the age of e-readers, what’s to stop me? Imajica is certainly epic in scope; the story covers the Five Dominions that make […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, body horror, cbr17bingo, Clive Barker, doorstopper, horror, I, Imajica, to meander or roam

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, body horror, cbr17bingo, Clive Barker, doorstopper, horror, I, Imajica, to meander or roam ·
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The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

September 25, 2025 by xoxoxoe 2 Comments

I recently decided to re-read The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (it was my choice for my book group). It was as fun as I remembered. Carter’s sexy takes on traditional fairy tales like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Puss in Boots” is at times over-the-top in its prose, humor, and horror – which suits her feminist takes on damsels in all sorts of distress perfectly. She delivers a great vampire tale, “The Lady of the House of Love,” too.  But I think […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, Angela Carter, British, Fairy Tales, Fiction, horror, short stories, the bloody chamber

xoxoxoe's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, Angela Carter, British, Fairy Tales, Fiction, horror, short stories, the bloody chamber ·
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