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 … The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree

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

Doctor, occultist, and—briefly—a widow, Catherine Coldbridge is one complicated woman. During a Sioux attack in 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine’s husband, is killed. Grief consumes her to the point she uses her formidable occult skills to resurrect Frank. But during the ritual, Frank loses his soul, goes on a killing spree, then disappears. Now, twenty-five years later, Catherine believes it’s time to make things right.
Look Out For … Oddbody by Rose Keating

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

A women in a codependent relationship with a ghost. During her breakfast shift, a waitress gives birth to an egg. A young woman tends to her father while he devours himself from the inside out. A woman desires feather wings surgically implanted to her back. Ten tales that explore the movement and needs of our bodies. Why we’re excited about this book: Rose Keating is a new name on the horror fiction scene readers will want to keep their eyes on.
Look Out For … My Ex, the Antichrist by Craig DiLouie

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

1998: Lily Lawlor and Drake Morgan begin a punk band. The charismatic Drake inspires faith in some, fear in others, but Lily is a believer. 1999: A Battle of the Bands, except this one ends in a shocking death. The ensuing riot claims the lives of three teenagers. 2009: Ten years later, at the height of stardom, Lily enters a police station and confesses to murder.
Look Out For … Ten Sleep by Nicholas Belardes

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

When Tiller offers Greta a job working a cattle drive, she jumps at the chance to actually take a break from the mess going on in her head. Ten days across the Wyoming prairie, three hundred and twenty cows and calves, working with two guys she’s known since her college days, what’s not to love about this job? And yeah, the canyon has a history, sure, but then nature leans to violence, and Greta can accept it, even when it makes her squirm on the inside.
Look Out For … Kill Creatures by Rory Power

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

Luce, Edie, Jane, and Nan take the boat out for one last swim in the river on a perfect summer night. Except it wasn’t perfect. Nan was the only one to come home that night. Edie, Jane, and Luce were gone. Nan’s story has alway been the same, she claims she has no idea what happened that night. The girls went on without her, and it was like they simply vanished into thin air.
Look Out For … Hold My Heart by Koji A. Dae

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

Severely depressed, Emma begins to seek out a serial killer who will kill her in the most gruesome method she can describe. After finding such a killer, Emma backs out of the deal. She then learns the serial killer is actually host to a parasitic creature from another dimension. Soon, the creature focuses its attention on Emma. Torn between desire and guilt from the new urges coursing through her, Emma succumbs to the parasitic entity’s horrifying whims.
Meet the Writer: Jason Cavallaro

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

Jason Cavallaro reads 3-5 books a week and has reviewed for many websites, including Ginger Nuts of Horror and Horror Drive-In, where he writes a summary of his best and worst reads every month. Believe it or not, he does other stuff too: works as a monkey scientist, plays snare drum for the New Orleans Saints drumline, raises cats, teaches music, and plays death metal. You can contact Jason via social media: X (@pinheadspawn), Instagram (@jcavallaro42), or Bluesky (@jasoncavallaro.bsky.social).
Look Out For … We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

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

Recovering from a near-fatal accident, Emily and her husband Freddie move from London to a home in Dartmoor called Larkin Lodge. The country home is gorgeous … striking even, yet Emily immediately feels something isn’t right. The fires go out for no reason, the old boards creak at night, and books fall off the shelves. And there’s a terrible presence Emily feels in the room at the third story. These strange occurrences only happen when Emily is alone, so are they truly even happening?
Look Out For … Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro

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

1923, Columbia. La Casona, perched above the legendary Salto del Tequendama waterfall, is a lavish mansion that was once home to Antonia and her family. Constant nightmares and the house’s malevolent spirit makes living there difficult. Tragedy strikes when Antonia’s mother falls to her death into El Santo. Consumed with grief, Antonia’s father tries to burn the mansion down, with Antonia still inside.
Look Out For … Thrift Store Puzzles by John Boden

2 months 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.