In Yara, Tamara Faith Berger addresses fraught questions about sexuality, consent, geopolitics, and religion
Yara represents Berger's most fully realized vision yet.
The Spooky Season: William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist remains one of the most striking, misunderstood 20th century horror novels
Those who view The Exorcist as a frightening and transgressive story about the supernatural may appreciate it on one level, but essentially miss Blatty's point.
Andrew Pyper’s new novel, a short, read-in-one sitting thriller called William, will appear under the pseudonym Mason Coile
"The intent of the book felt very particular."
The Spooky Season: Alison Rumfitt’s second novel examines repression and abjection through the lens of extreme body horror
Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
The Spooky Season: The past weighs heavily in a supernaturally inflected first novel from Adriana Chartrand
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
The Spooky Season: Kathe Koja’s 1991 debut, The Cipher, remains a classic of the horror genre
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
Climate change and political unrest at the end of the world in novels by Tomas Hachard and Michelle Min Sterling
City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.
Craig DiLouie re-imagines the haunted house story for the reality TV era
DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.
“That crooked Métis fiddle style”: Michelle Porter discusses the family history and cultural reclamation that went into the creation of her first novel, A Grandmother Begins the Story
The interconnections between the various voices is essential to Porter's approach in the novel.
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s novel The Centre serves up a feminist horror story about language and storytelling
The novel parcels out its secrets judiciously, saving the final reveal for the very last sentence.