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25 Days: A Snowbound Holiday Thriller
25 Days by Per Jacobsen is a book with a great concept, plot and storyline, but ultimate falls shot on the execution.
Silent Night, Deadly Night: A Fun and Brutal Holiday Horror Remake
Silent Night, Deadly Night’s creative team builds off the original story, adding a Vemon-esque style voice in the head, and crafts a fun slasher film fit for the holidays.
Christmas 365: Heartfelt Chaos Wrapped in Holiday Satire
Christmas 365, by Mikey Way and Jonathan Rivera, perfectly balances a heartwarming and emotional story with satirical humor and the holiday season.
The Deviant: Holiday Cheer Twisted into Pure Horror
The Deviant by writer James Tynion IV and artist Joshua Hixson takes the festive cheer out of the holiday season with a true-crime style thriller that has us looking at Santa with different eyes.
Young Scrooge: R.L. Stine’s Chilling Spin on A Christmas Carol
Young Scrooge is one of R.L. Stine’s most recent holiday horrors, but misses the mark a bit. The author takes the classic A Christmas Carol and gives it a modern and more middle grade twist with an extremely unlikable main character.
Headlights: Glowing Comfort in the Long Night
Woven with a brilliant blend of darkness and shining light, Headlights by CJ Leede exemplifies the best of what the horror genre can accomplish through a superb fusion of crime and otherworldly terror.
Snow: A Bleak Storm of Horror and Humanity
Snow by Ronald Malfi is a terrifying winter horror with a bit of heart and soul. What plays as a post apocalyptic horror is also a supernatural thriller that had me gripped from start to finish.
Wrestle Heist #1: A High-Flying Heist Off the Top Rope
Wrestle Heist by Kyle Starks is for those longtime pro wrestling fans, as well as anyone craving a humorous caper.
Meat Bees: A Swarm of Campy Fear
Meat Bees by Dane Erbach is exactly the campy horror story I was hoping for. It delivers a terrifying story of swarming wasps and a supernatural element that kept me truly terrified from beginning to end.
A Christmas Carol: The Ghost Story That Defined Christmas
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is not only a fanatics Christmas story, but an overall great read. Dickens brings ghosts to the festive season with a redemption-driven horror that has stood the test of time.
Fright Christmas: Ghosts of Fear Street Meet Dickens
Fright Christmas by R.L. Stine is a fantastic adaptation of the classic A Christmas Carol, but with just enough thrills and chills for the middle grade reader.
Ernest Cunningham Series: Cleverly Twisted Modern Murder Mysteries
With a title such as Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, the first in Benjamin Stevenson’s Ernest Cunningham series of novels should draw in most mystery readers, but what made me stay along for the ride is the dark humor, clever storytelling, and unique tales.
#257: Die Hard Movie Review
This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back comic book retailer Paul Eaton to the program to discuss everyone’s favorite Christmas movie, Die Hard!
The Kill Clause: A Thrilling Little Stocking Stuffer of a Story
The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger is a fun and thrilling short tale with a touch of the holidays.
The Snowman: A Winter Thriller with More Chill Than Snow
The Snowman by R.L. Stine is a winter thrilling horror story with a thin connection to the season.
Silent Night: A Seasonal Dive into Vintage Fear Street
Silent Night by R.L. Stine teases the Christmas season, but falls short of delivering a truly spectacular holiday story.
Welcome to the Family: Barry Hertz Unpacks the Franchise That Defined a Generation
Welcome to the Family by Barry Hertz is an incredible deep dive into the world of The Fast and the Furious.
Dead Weight: A Tense, Human Story Wrapped in Mystery
Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir is a well-written, fast-paced thriller with a gripping story and premise.
Malloch the Damned #1: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Queer Demon Banished
Malloch the Damned by David M. Booher and Winston Gambro is something truly special. Together, they’ve created a comic that doesn’t just ask to be read, it really demands to be experienced.
Wretch: A Broken Mirror with the Sharpest Shards
Penned with prose that aches with hurt and desire, Eric LaRocca explores the demented repetition of despair perpetuated by grief with Wretch.
Dig: A Sticky Horror That Won’t Let You Go
Dig by J.H. Markert takes some familiar pieces of horror stories and twists them into something truly fresh and thrilling. It’s the kind of horror story that sticks with you, no pun intended, long after you close the book.
For Human Use: A Darkly Satirical View into Living with the Dead
Audacious, darkly satirical, and absolutely gripping, For Human Use feels like the most entertaining social study of our current culture, a sandbox where gruesome castles are built under Sarah G. Pierce’s masterful hand.
Road of Bones: Terror on the Coldest Highway on Earth
Road of Bones by Christopher Golden is a quick atmospheric horror based in the most frigid of locations.
Dread the Halls 2025 #1: Twisting Holiday Spirit Into Pure Terror
Dread the Halls is one of the best ways to finish out the year. Chris Ryall and Jordan Hart once again bring cheer and fear to the pages of their annual holiday horror anthology from Hallmark horror to an even darker A Christmas Carol, Dread the Halls is just what you need for this holiday season.
