• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2022 August #1
  The incredible cover art by Evangeline Gallagher will be enticement enough to get many teens to crack the spine of this horror anthology. Once inside, they'll find a haunting assortment of tales, though not all truly fit the bill as folk horror. Ghost stories and urban legends feature prominently, but a few do successfully tick the folk-horror box. "Petrified," by Olivia Chadha, is among the latter; it follows a group of teens raised in a cultlike commune who exact revenge for a friend's sexual assault. "It Stays with You," by Aden Polydoros, is a standout that riffs on the childhood game Bloody Mary. Chloe Gong explores a malevolent house in "The Tallest Poppy," and a cemetery's restless dead focus their energy on the teen girl who has been neglecting their graves in Erica Waters' "Stay." There are 10 stories in total, and it's a solid bunch that dishes out chills and simultaneously explores the pressures and heightened emotions of adolescence. Grades 8-12. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.

Tori Bovalino, is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in London. She is currently a student in Royal Holloway's Creative writing and practice-based PhD program. Her debut novel, The Devil Makes Three, is forthcoming from Page Street Kids with a follow-up novel, Not Good for Maidens, releasing in 2022. Tori was an associate editor for Profane Journal and The Shanghai Literary Magazine and read for Typehouse Magazine.