Tag: Horror

• Halloween picks: The Scariest books

  I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big…

  Shannon Turlington

  October 30, 2014

  Reading

  Classics, Day of the Triffids, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Halloween, Haunting of Hill House, Heart-Shaped Box, HG Wells, Horror, House on the Borderland, HP Lovecraft, Ira Levin, IT, Joe Hill, John Wyndham, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Max Brooks, NOS4A2, Ray Bradbury, Rosemary’s Baby, Scariest books, Scary, Scott Smith, Shirley Jackson, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stephen King, The Ruins, The Shining, War of the Worlds, William Hope Hodgson, World War Z

• What is speculative fiction?

  The kind of fiction I like to read the most, and that I tend to focus on here, falls under the broad umbrella of “speculative fiction.” I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the traditional genre labels of science fiction, fantasy and horror. The definitions that are most often applied to these genres seem so limiting,…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 11, 2008

  Notebook

  Apocalyptic literature, Cormac McCarthy, Fantasy, Fiction, Genres, Horror, jonathan lethem, Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, Science fiction, Speculative fiction