Totaly Skull: June, 2026

Things that brought me delight in June, 2026. Johanna van Veen, Bone of My BoneI enjoyed Johanna van Veen's haunting novel My Darling Dreadful Thing, but I really enjoyed Bone of My Bone. Bone of My Bone centers on a Catholic nun and a Protestant peasant girl who are carting around the skull of a saint that wants to be reunited with its body, but a necromancer and his mercenary thrall are in hot pursuit across the bloody landscape of the Thirty Years' War. The novel is fast moving, grim when it needs to be, but with its eye on the possibility of redemption. Fans of Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires and Robert Eggers's films should lap this up. Highly recommended; it's one of the best things I've read this year. Evanescence, Sanctuary and SynthesisIt's kind of crazy that Evanescence dropped one of their best, most cohesive albums in June, 2026. There's a level of refinement here that comes with experience, but at the same time there is also a passionate fire to these tracks that…