Paranormal

A spoiler-free review of I Hope This Email Finds You in Hell by Mackenzie Reed: hell is run as a corporation, the fifty states are its departments, and a receptionist has four days to drive across it.

Two girls murdered three years apart. A town that decided the case was closed when a convenient stranger was shot dead. And a grandmother whose dementia keeps producing the same six words, in a voice that is not quite hers: they say a girl died here.

A Silicon Valley family buys a Queen Anne they cannot quite afford. The house eats anything already dead, and then it eats the memory of it from everyone who is not on the deed. Doty's debut is a domestic horror novel about the one thing grief has never offered anybody: an opt-out.

Her fiance dies of an aneurysm shaped like tentacles, and his family invites her to their island for four days to celebrate his life. Hannah Whitten leaves romantasy for cosmic horror, and the scariest thing in the book is how kind everyone is.

A detailed, spoiler-free review of The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen: honest praise and critique of her dual-timeline psychic-experiment thriller, plus content notes and read-alike recommendations.