Books that Bite

Pride for Tony Santorella's Bored Gay Werewolf

"I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that."

Jun 18 • 

A.L. Treadwell

BITE-SIZED REVIEW: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

"I'd rather be a monster than go back...This is my choice. We have to be free. My daughter and I have to be free."

Jun 3 • 

A.L. Treadwell

May 2025

BITE - SIZED REVIEW: Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill

"I shall bring them back to the old ways; blood sacrifices, castles and chieftains. The island at the edge of the world, how easy it can slip back into…

May 13 • 

A.L. Treadwell

February 2025

BITE-SIZED REVIEW: The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

"Our motivation is not the value of the bodies we steal, but in the second life we give them; each acts as a post-mortem Prometheus, bringing fire to…

Feb 5 • 

A.L. Treadwell

February 2024

BITE-SIZED REVIEW: A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather

'"I didn't kill him,' Sarah protested, though it wasn't true."

Feb 14, 2024 • 

A.L. Treadwell

The Wolf-tastic Art of Frederic Remington

Unveiling the darker side of the sunny Wild West.

Feb 13, 2024 • 

A.L. Treadwell

October 2023

Hunting down The Wolfen—Retro Pulp Rewind

“You must be mistaken. They can’t be as intelligent as all that.”

Oct 28, 2023 • 

A.L. Treadwell

September 2023

Let’s Go, Girls...Considering the Intersecting Subversions of She-Wolf

“[The people] saw beasts or monsters as well as young women, but this was also true when they looked at most women.”

Sep 29, 2023 • 

A.L. Treadwell

August 2023

Blue Moon Madness! Ed and Lorraine Warren’s “True” Werewolf Story

“I heard the echoes of my own wolf growls; I felt again the peculiar, satisfying sensation of my teeth breaking the skin of the nurse’s fragile arm.”

Aug 30, 2023 • 

A.L. Treadwell

BITE-SIZED REVIEW: The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

“No myth can remain terrifying when you’ve seen it broken and beaten, rendered as toothless as an old crone.”

Aug 20, 2023 • 

A.L. Treadwell

BITE-SIZED REVIEW: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

“Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we…

Aug 6, 2023 • 

A.L. Treadwell

Giving Back Anne Rice’s The Wolf Gift

“Woe to you, all the living things that appeal to such a heaven for help.”

Aug 1, 2023 • 

A.L. Treadwell