“Pell can somehow write jump scares.”
— Goodreads review of “Sleep Study”
“The scariest story I’ve ever read.”
— Review of “Sleep Study”
“A debut that shocks and delights, a found-footage gem to be handed around the friend group…Creepy and fun, struck through with true genre savvy.”
— Adam Cesare, author of Clown in a Cornfield
“I devoured CICADA (pun intended) and…read it in one sitting.”
— early review of CICADA
“Got under my skin to tickle and terrify in equal measure. Tanya Pell's wickedly creepy—and funny!— debut reads like John Carpenter had a bug baby with Guillermo del Toro.”
— Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll
“When I tell people that some of the scariest stories I've ever read are short stories, “Oh, What a Tangled Web” by Tanya Pell, is an example of what I'm referring to. The ending of this story had me doing that awkward, wide-eyed look around me to take inventory of who is witnessing me panic laugh.”
— Goodreads review of “Oh, What a Tangled Web”