HALLOWEEN SUGGESTED READING LIST X (2022)

Every year since I began Horror Delve back in 2013 I’ve posted a suggested reading list for Halloween. As with each of these lists, not all of the stories are set during Halloween, but they all do evoke the feel of the holiday at their core (at least in my opinion). We have now arrived […]

CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY READING LIST IX (2021)

An annual highlight of my year has arrived once again! I always love putting together these suggested reading lists for the Christmas season. I find there’s just something extra-special about a well-crafted tale of supernatural horror that’s set during the most festive time of year. The List (Listed By Publication Date Order): 1. “The Guard-Ship […]

IT WILL JUST BE US BY JO KAPLAN REVIEW

It Will Just Be Us, a horror novel by Jo Kaplan (who has also published stories and novels under her maiden name of Joanna Parypinski), presents us with a chilling, supernatural mystery which also brings light to the family dynamics of those who live inside the haunted manor. The story of Wakefield Manor, a sprawling […]

THE 2019 HORROR DELVE HAUNT AWARDS

I wanted to highlight a few of the favorite things I came across while working on articles for Horror Delve this past year. The original publishing dates for these works are not a factor. Basically, if it was featured on the site during 2019, it’s eligible. I’m calling them The Horror Delve Haunt Awards. There’s […]

DARK CARNIVAL BY JOANNA PARYPINSKI REVIEW

Joanna Parypinski’s new novel Dark Carnival follows Dax Howard. Dax is a college student studying astrophysics who returns to his hometown of Conjunction, Nebraska due to the sudden death of his father. When Dax’s mother vanished fourteen years earlier, it drove his father into an exhaustive search for her and eventually to his becoming an […]

13 QUESTIONS WITH JOANNA PARYPINSKI

I first became aware of Joanna Parypinski when we each had stories appear in the anthology Indiana Science Fiction 2011 from James Ward Kirk Publishing. Since then, her writing career has really taken off, having stories published in numerous high profile publications (just check out her impressive author bio after the interview to see what […]

HORROR DELVE’S ULTIMATE FANTASY WEIRD PLACES LIST

It’s time once again for another incarnation of the Horror Delve Ultimate Fantasy List. Previously, we’ve presented the Ultimate Fantasy Weapons (https://horrordelve.com/2016/02/14/the-ultimate-fantasy-weapons-list/) and Ultimate Fantasy Creatures lists (https://horrordelve.com/2017/02/11/ultimate-fantasy-creatures-list/). This year brings forth the Ultimate Fantasy Weird Places List. I asked each of our exceptional panel of writers to briefly tell us about one of their […]

PANDORA BY JOANNA PARYPINSKI

I first became aware of Joanna Parypinski when we shared space in the anthology INDIANA SCIENCE FICTION 2011. I was impressed by her work, so when I heard her first novel was coming out I picked up a copy. I’m glad I did. PANDORA (2012) is a great read. Joanna has populated her fictional town […]