Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Fervor by Alma Katsu

April 14, 2022
3 mins to read

“With her latest historical horror novel, Katsu delves into one of America’s most shameful periods, a darkness of the past that is painfully relevant today.” In 1944, as World War II continues, Meiko Briggs and her daughter Aiko are taken from their Seattle home and sent to an internment camp. Even though Meiko’s husband is …

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Meet the Writer: Joe Koch

April 13, 2022
10 mins to read

Joe Koch (he/they) writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Joe is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and the author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands, The Couvade, and Convulsive. They’ve had over fifty short stories published in books and journals like Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, The Big Book of Blasphemy, Liminal Spaces, and Not All …

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Look Out For … Convulsive by Joe Koch

April 7, 2022
3 mins to read

“With their latest collection, Koch cranks things up to a fever pitch with surreal tales that stretch the boundaries of horror fiction to the breaking point.” The horrifying new collection from the author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands Why we’re excited about this book: Joe Koch is a relative newcomer to the horror fiction scene, but …

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Look Out For … Passersthrough by Peter Rock

March 31, 2022
3 mins to read

“In Rock’s latest novel, a father and daughter try to come to grips with a horrifying event from the past, with the threshold between life and death never far behind.” While camping with her father Benjamin at Mount Rainier National Park, eleven-year-old Helen disappears into the wilderness. After being missing for a nerve-wracking week, Helen …