Hey! My name is Shyla and I am an avid, life-long reader and horror buff.

My horror fandom is so extreme, in fact, that it led me down a long and narrow academic path, ending in a Master’s Degree in Film Studies for which I wrote my thesis on the portrayal of women (specifically, Final Girls) in slasher movies… yep, I’m that level of nerd. I have since left academia behind, and as a new mom, I no longer have much time to binge-watch Final Girls taking out masked killers, but I do still make plenty of time to read.

I recently discovered a whole new world of meta-horror novels that revolve around Final Girls and their stories, and I want to READ THEM ALL. I then want to write about them all (see above, re: nerd). Hence, this blog (read more about the concept here).

And so my journey begins, I hope you’ll join me. But BEWARE what lies ahead. It could get… bloody.

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While this site is exclusive to the Thriller and Horror genres, you can find my other book reviews, along with my personal fiction and other hobby content at Words and Stitches and Beyond the Threshold.