Brian Keene

When their car breaks down in the middle of the seediest part of the inner city, a group of teenagers take refuge in an abandoned row house. But it's not abandoned at all. The inhabitants are a family of mutated madmen who don't take kindly to intruders.

Urban Gothic

Ryan Mateyk

If you can look past the silliness and lack of character development, this is a pretty fun, messed up horror novel. The closest thing to compare it to would be The Hills Have Eyes or the Descent, except instead of being stalked by creatures in the middle of nowhere, this is happening under the streets of Philadelphia.

Jayme Bosio

This is the first horror novel I've read in a long time. In hindsight, I probably should have eased myself back into the genre. I'm not really sure how to describe this story. Six stupid kids run into an abandoned house to hide and then spend the rest of the night trying to survive a bunch of psychotic mutants who want to eat them for dinner. It's "The People Under the Stairs" meets "Rose Red" meets that creepy episode of X-Files with the inbreds who keep their mutant mother/sister/whatever hidden under the bed. It is an exciting story...there were moments when I didn't want to put the book down. Overall, however, it was a bit too graphic for my taste. It wasn't the blood that bothered me so much, but the description of all the filth and disgusting rotting smells. This book is for those with an iron stomach.

DNF. I love this author and have consumed so many of his horror novels. This terminology just didn’t age well at all in this one. I also started off not caring much about what happens to these characters, therefore I didn’t want to carry on with finding out what happens to them. My attachment to the characters in his other books seemed to come so much easier!

Urban Gothic

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