Supernatural Thrillers Archives - Criminal Element -- Login / Register Search for: -- Search for: Read Excerpts Reviews Author Spotlight Essays Interviews Book Listicles On-Screen Television Film Trailers Cooking the Books Newsletter Login / Register Supernatural Thrillers Featured Excerpt: Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong By Crime HQ July 3, 2026 One It’s pitch dark, pouring rain, and I have no idea where I’m going, which is also the perfect analogy for my life. As I drive, squinting through the fogged-up windshield, a bug zigzags down the glass, caught in a rivulet where the broken wiper can’t reach. It keeps getting a grip, legs scrabbling to… Mushrooms and Madness By Daisy Pearce April 28, 2026 “The mycologist may liken himself to a pioneer wandering through a land filled with alternately beautiful and fantastic shapes. A land of delicate pencilings and glowing colors where mystery sits enthroned and wise men become its worshippers.” —Mary Elizabeth Banning, a self-taught female mycologist, 1822–1903 In the summer of 1984, I came upon a ring… Featured Excerpt: Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce By Crime HQ February 2, 2026 Chapter 1 I’m in hell, I think. Sunlight slices through my eyelids. My head pounds thickly, almost percussive. I’m in hell and it’s my childhood bedroom. Open my eyes. The tinny taste of bile and tequila at the back of my mouth. My mother standing at the window, a look on her face of disappointment,… Book Review: The Whistler by Nick Medina By Doreen Sheridan October 21, 2025 Teenaged Jackie Cadow is nursing a secret. She’s gotten engaged to her boyfriend Gabe but knows that her parents wouldn’t understand. As she does chores in the fading twilight behind her Louisiana home, she thinks longingly of her fiancé and the stolen hours they were able to spend together in his truck the other night…… Book Review: One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford By Doreen Sheridan July 25, 2025 When an epidemic that turns its victims into zombies out of science fiction rips through London, the city – even the world – is caught unprepared. The United Kingdom immediately goes into a lockdown eerily familiar to modern readers, as the government seeks to contain and eradicate the threat.  Weeks pass, and everything is slowly… Book Review: The Queen by Nick Cutter By Doreen Sheridan December 12, 2024 Plum and Cherry have been best friends ever since growing up in the same Canadian trailer park together, even giving each other nicknames after the streets they lived on. But then Cherr’s dad hit the patent jackpot and moved her family away to a wealthier part of Port Dalhousie. Perhaps more fatally for the girls’… About Advertise With Us Terms of Use Privacy Notice Your Privacy Choices Contact Us Site Powered by Supadu The owner of this website has made a commitment to accessibility and inclusion, please report any problems that you encounter using the contact form on this website. This site uses the WP ADA Compliance Check plugin to enhance accessibility.