Pretty Sinister Books

Don't be fooled by the title or the odd illustrations on the DJs of Two Lovers Too Many (1949). It may seem like a melodramatic hospita...

I'm putting the sinister back into the Pretty Sinister Books blog this month as I tear through a pile of old horror novels and detective...

"Let's summarize:  A lake that sucks people into it, an invisible phantom that screams and leaves footprints, a crazed double murde...

What if those stuck-up teens in Mean Girls and the snobby clique in Heathers made it to grad school in order to pursue a master’s degree in...

Two book giveaways in one month?  What is the world coming to?  (BTW, there was almost a third,...but I'm saving that one for October) F...

Stewart Hamilton revisits the site of a devastating fire in Murder’s Burning (1967) Several years ago fire raged over an Australian ranch ...

THE STORY:   The relatives of explorer and trader in African artifacts Nathan Claymole are summoned by invitation to visit him at his remote...

Jules de Grandin may not have been the first occult detective in weird and supernatural fiction but he will always be the original Night Sta...

"But Harriet's condition...had blinded Mrs. Ogilvy to the fact that the world contains many people who are far from decent."...

Rudolf Hess battles the elder gods. Adolf Hitler monkeying around with black magic books after he dropped out of art school. A female vam...

I've known Joseph Payne Brennan as the creator of Lucius Leffing, a Sherlockian style consulting detective, who appears in two books. ...