About This Blog

PLEASE NOTE: Because this is a horror blog, the reviews will cover disturbing/scary material for entertainment purposes. Expect to see creepy and upsetting things in the reviews and illustrations including, but not limited to, swearing, blood, gore, violence, skeletons and corpses, demons, ghosts, images and/or mentions of deceased people, the supernatural, and "creepy" animals such as spiders and snakes. All of these things are likely to appear without a content warning as they are all common horror staples. While I try to keep my language clean in the reviews for kid's books, there will probably be swearing in the Y/A and Adult reviews. If any of these things disturb, offend, or trigger you, please, DO NOT read this blog for your own well being. By reading the blog, it's assumed that you are willing to be frightened and disturbed for your own entertainment. 

So what is this blog about? Well, two things, horror fiction and diversity.

I’m a big horror fan. I grew up on Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. In college I would rent and watch every frightening film I could get my hands on, from classics like The Exorcist and Psycho, to the bargain bin DVDs you find at the drug store. I couldn’t get enough. I’d listen to creepy podcasts on my way to work and look up ghost stories on my phone during lunch. I love spooky stories of all kinds.

But, I’d love it a lot more if there were more characters like me. Not just a token minority who gets killed off in the second act, or a side character with two lines. I want a main character I can identify with, someone who's biracial, queer, non-binary, or has a mental illness. A character who isn’t a monster, a token, or a sex fantasy for a straight male lead. I want to see someone like me to fight monsters and not get killed off the in the first act. I want to hear from the voices that are so often ignored, people of color, Natives, the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities. I want to learn about folks with different backgrounds and life experiences from my own. Mostly, I want something different in my horror fiction!

In 2014, inspired by the We Need Diverse Books campaign, I set out to find more horror fiction with diverse characters, and I’ve created this website to share my discoveries here with you, the good, the bad, and the truly terrifying.