N.D. Thompson (Author of Season of The Wolf)

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Richard Matheson’s Hell House is a novel that doesn’t creep so much as press its thumb to your sternum and wait to see how long you can hold eye contact. It’s a haunted‑house story built on pressure rather than mystery, a place where the walls don’t ...more
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Black Shuck: 1577: A Tale of Strange & Wonder: Book One (A Tale of Strange and Wonder 1)
by P. M. Morgan (Goodreads Author)

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Richard Matheson’s Hell House is a novel that doesn’t creep so much as press its thumb to your sternum and wait to see how long you can hold eye contact. It’s a haunted‑house story built on pressure rather than mystery, a place where the walls don’t Richard Matheson’s Hell House is a novel that doesn’t creep so much as press its thumb to your sternum and wait to see how long you can hold eye contact. It’s a haunted‑house story built on pressure rather than mystery, a place where the walls don’t whisper — they watch.

The setup is clean: a dying millionaire sends a small team into the Belasco House to settle the question of life after death once and for all. What they walk into isn’t a haunting so much as a system. The house tests them, isolates them, strips them down to whatever raw nerve is easiest to pluck. Matheson’s pacing is relentless, almost clinical, and the house becomes less a setting than a psychological centrifuge.

Stephen King once called Hell House one of the scariest haunted‑house novels ever written. Reading it now, that claim feels more like a historical artifact than a warning label. The book isn’t frightening in the contemporary sense — its shocks have dulled, its provocations softened by decades of escalation in the genre. But that doesn’t diminish its importance. You can feel its influence everywhere: in the architecture of modern possession stories, in the way horror blends science with the supernatural, in the idea that a haunting is most effective when it knows exactly where you’re weakest.

What still lands is the psychological precision. Matheson understands that belief, desire, and ego are far more volatile than any ghost. Each character is dismantled through the fault line they try hardest to hide. The house doesn’t need to invent horrors; it just amplifies what’s already there. That’s where the novel still has teeth.

The tension between Dr. Barrett’s rigid rationalism and the house’s chaotic malice gives the story its backbone. Neither side is allowed to win cleanly. Matheson keeps the conflict taut, forcing the reader to sit in the uncomfortable space where certainty erodes and instinct takes over.

If the novel falters, it’s in its excess — moments where the spectacle overshadows the psychology. But even then, the commitment is admirable. Matheson pushes every idea to its limit, and the result is a book that feels like a blueprint for the genre’s evolution.

Hell House may not be the nightmare it once was, but it remains a landmark — a story that reshaped the haunted‑house narrative by treating fear as something methodical, intimate, and deeply human. Its influence lingers long after the last page, like a house that doesn’t want you to leave just yet. ...more

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Dan Soule's best work yet!

Wolf’s Bane is a reminder of why pulp‑rooted horror is finding its voice again. At a time when readers are turning away from mass‑produced fiction and over-hyped, flash in the pan "booktok" sensations, instead craving storie Dan Soule's best work yet!

Wolf’s Bane is a reminder of why pulp‑rooted horror is finding its voice again. At a time when readers are turning away from mass‑produced fiction and over-hyped, flash in the pan "booktok" sensations, instead craving stories with personality, Dan Soule delivers a werewolf novel that feels handcrafted, cinematic, and proudly unpolished in all the right ways.

What makes Wolf’s Bane so compelling is its From Dusk Till Dawn structure — that bold split between genres. The first act is a taut heist thriller, all grit and tension, the kind of setup where you can feel the pressure building under every decision. Then Soule pulls the lever, the moon rises, and the story erupts into full creature‑feature chaos. It’s a tonal shift that shouldn’t work, but absolutely does, because Soule understands the narrative instincts behind both modes.

His writing has a filmic rhythm: sharp cuts, tight framing, scenes that feel like they’re lit by headlights and moonlight. It’s pulp with intention — the kind of horror that knows exactly what it wants to be and commits to it with confidence.

What’s interesting is how Wolf’s Bane fits into a broader movement happening in horror right now. There’s a growing appetite for stories that blend cinematic energy with mythic or folkloric weight — books that feel like they could be cult films, the kind you discover late at night and never quite shake off. Soule’s work sits firmly in that space, alongside a new wave of writers who are leaning into atmosphere, instinct, and emotional truth rather than formula.

Wolf’s Bane isn’t trying to be prestige horror or literary reinvention. It’s doing something far more refreshing - far more important. It's embracing the raw, creature‑driven, cult‑cinema spirit of the genre and delivering it with craft and conviction. For readers who want horror that feels alive — not manufactured, nor convoluted ambiguity — this is exactly the kind of book that scratches that itch.

If you’re drawn to werewolf stories that carry the pulse of a heist thriller and the ferocity of classic creature features, Wolf’s Bane is a standout example of where the genre is heading. It howls in tune with a shift that’s already underway. ...more

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3.5 stars rounded up.
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It's difficult the summaries the plot of this book for a review, as the plot is difficult to establish. Mainly set in the 1840s/1850s, we follow a teenage runaway known only as The Kid. T ...more

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