Adam Nevill 2015 Reading Highlights

I keep a reading diary and actually managed to read 65 books this year, the most since 2011 when I read each time I had a sleeping baby in my lap, or papoosed inside the sling on my front. That was a rare year in which I read in excess of 100 books. Halcyon days. But my reading highlights for 2015, in the order I read them:

The Two Sams, Glen Hirshberg

Midnight Picnic – Nick Antosca (bizarre footnote – while reading this novel, I realised that he was one of the writers of the Hannibal series that I was watching at the same time)

The Devil in Silver – Victor Lavelle

Carol – Patricia Highsmith

Ana Kai Tangata – Scott Nicolay

Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth – Stephen Jones-Editor (Editor)

Affinity – Sarah Waters

Nights Black Agents – Fritz Leiber (reread)

The House on the Brink – John Gordon

The Blunderer – Patricia Highsmith

The Cry of the Owl – Patricia Highsmith

Black Wings – S.T. Joshi (Editor)

A Fatal Inversion – Barbara Vine

Aickman’s Heirs – Simon Strantzas (Editor)

Lies and Ignorance – Brian Hodge

The Wolf in Winter – John Connolly

The Nameless Dark – Ted E. Grau

Rawblood – Catriona Ward

The Loney – Andrew Michael Hurley

Little Sister Death – William Gay

The Anniversary of Never – Joel Lane

Scar City – Joel Lane

Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach – Ramsey Campbell

Clearly, I fail to keep up with most recent releases.

I reserve special mention for the two Joel Lane collections, and his final collections of fiction. I found them mesmerizing, and he is one of few writers that has always compelled me to pore over every sentence as if I am desperately seeking something . . . I thought I’d finish the two books and feel melancholy. But I actually finished Scar City (which is probably my favourite of all of his collections) feeling assured that I would reread and enjoy all of his books again, and again. He is one of those special writers that always make me want to write.

 

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