Bob Pastorella

Podcast Co-Host at This Is Horror Podcast

Writer. This Is Horror podcast. Author of MOJO RISING and THEY’RE WATCHING (with Michael David Wilson). My vampire novel, THE SMALL HOURS, releases in 2025.

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Look Out For … Thrift Store Puzzles by John Boden

1 week ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

Once famed horror writer Ken Allenwood is being devoured, one memory at a time. Spending his time now in an elder care facility, Ken waits to draw his last breath, hoping to retain the remaining memories from his long and unusual life. But he soon wonders if the unraveling fabric of his mind has become tangled and threaded with his fictional undertakings. Elijah, who spends most of his time alone, adores all things spooky.
Look Out For … Say Uncle by Ryan C. Bradley

2 weeks ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

It’s the summer of 2005 and 15-year-old Braden O’Riley is supposed to be having the time of his life. Instead, he’s sleeping on an air mattress next to his brother. While Braden’s parents work out their marital woes, his uncle has moved in, basically taking over his room. Who is this vulgar, misogynistic man, and what about his mysterious book full of strange occult symbols? Does this book mean something … sinister?
The State of the Horror Address 2025: As the World Burns

2 weeks ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

Horror has hit the big time. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Writers, artists, Hollywood studios, independent films. It’s everywhere. As the world burns, people turn to fictional nightmares to keep the real monsters at bay. Demi Moore won a Golden Globe, her first, for starring in a horror movie. The Substance is not just some flash-in-the-pan studio hack-job, but a bona fide actual horror film, with biting social commentary and gruesome body horror.
Look Out For … The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling

3 weeks ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

All Jerry Campbell wants is to be left alone. After the death of his wife Abigail, the grieving widower is desperate for some change in scenery. His realtor tells him about a new home in Fairview Acres … a retirement community nestled in the Poconos. Jerry figures it’s as good a place as any to spend the rest of his time in solitude. Until he moves in. Strange neighbors. Block parties at night. Unsettling noises running across his rooftop day and night.
Look Out For … Their Monstrous Hearts by Yiğit Turhan

4 weeks ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

When a mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo’s apartment, they come with news his grandmother Perihan has died. Riccardo inherits her villa in Milan, as well as her butterfly collection. A struggling writer, Riccardo is running out of options. Hoping for inspiration from the change of scenery, Riccardo moves into the villa. Once there, he finds Perihan’s house isn’t as luxurious now as he remembers, and the butterflies pinned in the glass cases appear more threatening than artful.
Look Out For … Blood Cypress by Elizabeth Broadbent

1 month ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

No one blinks an eye when Lila Carson’s young brother Beau disappears. Ten-year-old Beau can’t talk and throws tantrums. He’s just another useless Carson, another one of those kids in a broken down house, its glory long gone after his father died. The sheriff and his good ol’boy deputies aren’t much help either. They show up and eye up Lila and call her twin brother names. Lila, a closeted bisexual girl in the South, is scared to death now.
Look Out For … The Cut by C.J. Dotson

1 month ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

The L’Arpin, a historic hotel long past its prime, wasn’t the first place Sadie thought about when raising a toddler while pregnant with another. Set along The Cut, a small Lake Erie beach, the hotel doesn’t sound like much, but Sadie’s choices are severely limited at the moment while on the run from her abusive ex-fiancé. But a housekeeping spot and free room is about the best she can do for the moment. Things go south during the first night there.
Look Out For … A Feast of Putrid Delights by Valentina Rojas

1 month ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

Antonia’s life has unraveled after surviving a brutal attack at a local queer nightclub. Plagued with insomnia, she has trouble keeping her thoughts on track, and definitely can’t focus on the brand new restaurant she and her friends recently opened in New York. Then Antonia discovers a new street drug. The experimental and mysterious Cloud, gifted to her from an equally mysterious stranger, Antonia finds she can sleep again, and her thoughts are back on track.
Look Out For … Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples

1 month ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

A dark force has haunted the Languille Lake reservation for decades. Whispered as “the sandman”, this entity lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the source of revenue for the reservation and its main attraction. The sandman drains the casino patrons of their dreams and keeps the other ghosts there from moving on. Marion Lafournier, an Ojibwe, finds solace in the slot machines after a breakup. He runs afoul of the sandman and barely escapes if not for the help of his cousins.
Look Out For … They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

2 months ago | thisishorror.co.uk | Bob Pastorella

Ever since the hurricane, Mercy Louisiana hasn’t been the same. A strange red algae has bloomed along the coast. Noon and her mother carve out a life among the wreckage by trawling the mutated wildlife lurking in the water and trading with the harbormaster. Noon does her best to keep it all in focus … it helps her cope with what happened at the Cove, and the monster itching at her flesh. But Mercy has never been a safe place, and now it’s getting worse. People are disappearing.