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...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #4—Laura Benedict

Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say in a starred review of Laura Benedict’s new novel, The Stranger Inside: “Kimber’s complicated personality and unusual family life drive the ever-twisting, surprise-filled plot. Angry and jealous as a child and...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #3—Ed Park

From Publishers Weekly: “Ed Park’s warm and winning fiction debut, Personal Days, is narrated by a collective we of youngish Manhattan office grunts who watch in helpless horror as their company keeps shrinking, taking their private world of in-jokes and...

AT HOME IN THE DARK—Preview #2—Wallace Stroby

“Wallace Stroby’s ‘Nightbound,’ puts his series heroine Crissa Stone through an action-packed woodchopper when her robbery of a Dominican gang money drop goes south. Crime fiction fans will find plenty to like.” From Publishers Weekly....

AT HOME IN THE DARK —Preview #1—Elaine Kagan

“Elaine Kagan’s ‘Hot Pants’ features a young woman caring for a father sliding into dementia (Is there anything darker than that?), while fending off harassment at work. The panic and hopelessness of her circumstances are as disquieting as it...