novels – Lucy A. Snyder

Sister, Maiden, Monster Cover Reveal

April 12, 2022 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Here’s the cover for my cosmic horror novel Sister, Maiden, Monster, which Tor Nightfire will release next February. The story is set in the aftermath […]

Announcing Sister, Maiden, Monster from Tor Nightfire

June 7, 2021 Lucy A. Snyder 0

If you enjoyed my Bram Stoker Award-winning story “Magdala Amygdala“, I have some good news: Tor Nightfire has purchased my novel based on that tale! […]

1959 by Thulani Davis

August 29, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

1959 is a novel by Thulani Davis that was published in 2001 by Grove Press. It is a first-person coming-of-age narrative that chronicles a young black girl named Willie Tarrant coping […]

Choke Hold

March 19, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Choke Hold is the 2011 sequel to Christa Faust’s Money Shot. It offers the first-person narrative of former porn actress Angel Dare as she tries to save the […]

The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom

February 8, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom is a Southern gothic novel that tells the stories of four generations of women in the Deep South through a […]

The Turn of the Screw

January 26, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

I started reading Henry James’ 1898 novel The Turn of the Screw with some awareness of the book’s reputation of having an ambiguous narrative: the young governess’s story could be read […]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

January 12, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

One of the things that impressed me most about Conrad’s novel about Charles Marlow’s nightmarish adventures in the Congo was the lushness of language. The […]

The Red Tree

August 1, 2017 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Caitlín R. Kiernan’s The Red Tree is a dizzying weird gothic novel that chronicles the final months of a writer named Sarah Crowe as she grieves for […]

The Fix-Up

July 24, 2017 Lucy A. Snyder 1

Most avid fiction fans have probably read plenty of fix-ups, but they might not know the term for this type of book. A fix-up is a collection of […]

Unreliable Narrators

July 20, 2017 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Caitlín R. Kiernan’s dark fantasy novel The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and Robert W. Chambers’ supernatural story collection The King in Yellow have several themes in common—ancient […]