Archive - Books that Bite

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 •

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 •

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 •

February 2024

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

July 2023

BITE-SIZED REVIEW: Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

“My mother thought I was a monster and didn’t love me because of it. This thing, an actual fucking monster, was loved.”

Jul 23, 2023 •

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