AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #9—Jim Fusilli

“I went east to Greenwich and turned south on familiar cobblestone, heading toward the silver Twin Towers, their crowns hidden in low-lying clouds.” That’s the last sentence of the penultimate chapter of Closing Time, Jim Fusilli’s debut as a novelist, and it...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #7—Joe Hill

If you can’t get a hardcover copy of At Home in the Dark, blame Joe Hill. Pre-orders for the signed-and-numbered Subterranean Press limited edition were strong early on, but they exploded upon the announcement that Netflix had won a spirited bidding war and...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #6—N. J. Ayres

Noreen Ayres is an accomplished poet as well as an Edgar-nominated writer of crime fiction. She’s best known for her Smokey Brandon mysteries, now getting a well-deserved second life under the imprint of Brash Books. Of Smokey’s debut, A World the Color of...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #5—Joe R. Lansdale

In his advance review in Booklist, Wes Lukowsky gives special mention to “Joe R. Lansdale’s chilling ‘The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team,’ which depicts a high-school competition in which sport and butchery have joined hands.” And Publishers...