Show Notes
Home is where the horror is this week, with Chris Panatier and Worry Box!
This latest offering from Panatier’s uniquely strange mind is a complete revision of the haunted house as we know it. It’s a house that means well, but understands little. Couple that with a family in flux and a child suffering intrusive thoughts, and you have a recipe for terrible, no-good disaster.
In short, it’s 400 pages of slowly tightening dread!
I hope you enjoy.
Other books mentioned:
The Redemption of Morgan Bright (2024), by Chris Panatier
This House isn’t Haunted but We Are (2025), by Stephen Howard
Our Cut of Salt (2026), by Deena Helm
Pet Semetary (1983), by Stephen King
The Library at Mount Char (2015), by Scott Hawkins
Gideon the Ninth (2019), by Tamsyn Muir
Gormenghast (1950), by Mervyn Peak
Angel Down (2025), by Daniel Kraus
Chimera Skin (2026), by Johnny Compton
The Butcher of Nazareth (2026), by David Scott Hay
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