Tag: Horror
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
The Devil in Siliver by Victor LaValle (2012) Pepper is committed against his will to a mental hospital after being arrested, because the cops don’t want to bother with the paperwork. There, he discovers that some kind of monster–a man with the head of a bison–is stalking the patients, coming down through the ceiling in the…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Twelve by Justin Cronin
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Twelve (Book 2 of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin (2012) This was a terrific read, if you like scary-as-hell, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, big-ass vampire books. And I do. I enjoyed going back to the beginning of the story introduced in The Passage and…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2011 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2011. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (2011) The notorious hired killers, the Sisters brothers, set out on one last job to track down and kill a gold miner and…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell (2010) It’s hard to believe that someone could come out with a fresh and different take on the zombie apocalypse novel, but Bell has done it here. He seamlessly combines Southern gothic tropes…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Passage by Justin Cronin
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Passage by Justin Cronin (2010) The United States is overrun by vampire-like beings infected by a genetically engineered virus. The vampires in The Passage are monsters, pure and simple — monsters with a tiny glimmer of humanity trapped deep inside.…
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Around the World in Horror Reading List
I haven’t posted in a while, so in an effort to get more regular about that, I’m going to share edited and annotated versions of some of the reading lists I curate on LibraryThing. Making reading lists is one of my fave things to do, next to reading itself. I enjoy books with a strong…
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Golden Ages of Horror: Reading Elizabeth
About two years ago, I discovered Valancourt Books, which reissues out-of-print horror, generally from the 1970s and early 1980s, in really attractive slim trade paperbacks. My latest read from them was Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall (originally published under the pseudonym Jessica Hamilton). What a disturbing little book about a 14-year-girl who seems to be a complete sociopath…
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Halloween Reading
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The crisp weather, the leaves turning, the light getting slantier–this is the perfect time to settle in with a spooky story, which happens to be my favorite kind of story. And even though Halloween is tomorrow, it’s not too late to get your spook on. Here are few…
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Why read horror?
I’ve been reading a lot of horror this year. More than I usually do, which was already a large amount. I’ve been feeling the need for extreme escapism. And despite the truism that good horror reflects current societal fears, I still find it very escapist. Recently, I shared this article from Tor about women characters in…
Shannon Turlington 