This is a horror book that will pull you and won’t let you go until long after you finish it. This story has so much heart, empathy and compassion. Not to mention a quirky POV from a very religious cat named Olivia. If you’re new to the horror genre, this is a good place to …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. If October is the new December, it makes sense that readers have been shopping early for Halloween, too! When the temperatures drop and the leaves start to fall, it feels …
This was one of my favorite reads of last year. There’s southern housewife hospitality, a true crime book club, and a handsome new neighbor who appears overnight. Filled with some suspense/horror this book is a great read to get yourself out of your reading rut or to switch it up to something out of those …
Originally published for OLY ARTS by Molly Gilmore. Jonah Barrett wouldn’t be insulted if anyone said their first book was monstrous. That’s because Barrett’s short-story collection Moss Covered Claws, dropping March 18, is all about monsters. Barrett of Olympia, a filmmaker, fantasy writer, and OLY ARTS contributor, is launching the book with an online reading and talk at …
People tend to think of mushrooms as the fleshy food items found in the produce aisle, each one growing in isolation and popping up suddenly after the rains. But a mushroom is only one fragment of a fungus colony. When a mushroom pops up, it’s because the mycelium, a network of long microscopic fibers, has …
Sunday night marked the debut of “Lovecraft Country,” an HBO series based on Seattle author Matt Ruff‘s novel of the same title. The series is produced by a stellar team that includes Misha Green (who wrote the first episode) and Jordan Peele. Here’s the summary of the show: Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the …
Kirkland, WA was the site of the first reported cases of coronavirus in the US. The governor of WA, Jay Inslee, declared a state of emergency (as have CA and MD). Large tech employers have instructed employees to work from home and one school district has closed for up to two weeks while they transition …
When are scarecrows truly creepy? When it is close to Halloween! And– when they stalk children and seem to have been making people disappear for over a hundred years. But I get ahead of myself. Eleven-year-old Ollie finds a distraught woman threatening to throw a book into a raging river. Ollie saves (steals) the book …
How about some fairy tale horror set in Colonial New England? In Laird Hunt’s In the House in the Dark of the Woods, we have the story of a woman named Goody, who goes out one day to pick berries. Naturally, she stays out after dark and gets lost. But she gets found by a …
Published in Shelf Awareness March 14, 2018 Matt Young is a Marine Corps veteran, teacher and writer. His work can be found in Incoming: Veteran Writers on Coming Home,Consequence magazine, Split Lip, Word Riot, Tin House, River Teeth and many others. He teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington State. He is …
