All posts by Thomas Overlook

Thomas Overlook is a writer and critic living in upstate New York. After receiving his doctorate in English literature, Thomas left the academy and became a freelance writer. He writes fiction that blurs the lines between genres. When he is not working or writing, Thomas raises chickens and enjoys silence.

Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India

This trek through the dark corners of India’s cultural imagination gives a layered, textured view of the supernatural world.

/ September 12, 2023

Lunacy

As a carefully cultivated horror story that resonates in the fear-laden recesses of modern life, Lunacy is a book to savour. 

/ February 22, 2023

Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years

A charming visual guide offers the convincing case that the vampire genre tells us more about who we are than we may think.

/ October 30, 2022

The Watkins Book of English Folktales

This reissue, one of the most comprehensive on English folklore ever published, is a gift to the whole world, not just England.

/ October 5, 2022

Sick & Beautiful

A surreal psychodrama charged with urban decay and all the hopeless decadence a 21st Century audience could ever want.

/ July 3, 2022

Lingering

A psychological depth that pushes the meaning of ‘haunting’, urging readers to question the origins and nature of evil.

/ June 22, 2022

England On Fire

A enchanted wonderland to change the way you see England, not for showing anything new, but what has been there all along.

/ April 28, 2022

Kissing the Lizard

Justin David tells a touchingly twisted tale, a story with a spinning compass that won’t let you figure out where home is.

/ March 23, 2022

Soaking in Strange Hours

Teeming with macabre delights, Erik Hofstatter’s story is one that you don’t so much read as ravish.

/ December 12, 2021