Horror

A spoiler-free review of Fallow by Sarah Anderson: a woman with no dental insurance signs a ten-year contract to carry seven babies for the executives of a company that would rather nobody took maternity leave.

A spoiler-free review of I Am the Monster Under the Bed by Emily Zinnikas: seven teenagers went into the woods outside Rapture, Maine, six came home in boxes, and the one who walked out has spent fifteen years being the answer the town already liked.

A spoiler-free review of Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo, the third and final Alex Stern novel: demons trickling into New Haven, a scrubbed expedition from 1933, and a climb up Harkness Tower.

A spoiler-free review of We Already Dug the Grave by Emma C. Wells: two sisters, one shovel, a decade of silence, and a set of tea leaves that have said the same word for ten years.

A spoiler-free review of Blacktail by Scott Hawkins: ten years after The Library at Mount Char, a half-wolf walks south to wake a sleeping god, and the whole novel is told from inside the heads of animals who mean every word.