Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: William Yolland gets some news from a physician who has given him a mandatory exam for an insurance policy Yolland is hoping wil...

"It's that time of year "When the world falls in love "Every song you hear seems to say "Merry Christmas, may your  ...

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...

THE STORY: The Clove and Hoof is the hot spot in Larcombe for a pint of bitter, a good story and some laughs. It's also the focal point...

THE STORY: Sir John Meredith is off on another adventure involving kidnapping, revenge and another bizarre cult that hints at supernatural ...

THE STORY:   Intensely disliked, but extremely popular and financially profitable, novelist Emmanuel Cortal is murdered in his unique glass ...

There are some books which have achieved legendary status in the Detective Fiction Hall of Fame simply because they have been largely unob...

As usual I have discovered a delightful book that others found “nightmarish” and “disturbing.” I am beginning to think that many critics ...

US paperback edition Popular Library G291 (Dec. 1958) THE STORY: The murder of a farmer appears to be the work of a disgruntled hired ...

THE STORY: The preposterous plot of Secret Sceptre (1937) reads like a matinee cliffhanger serial overloaded with harrowing incidents, gru...