What Else Are You Reading?

[Alan]

Lucyfer wrote: "Currently reading John Dies at the End, almost finished. I'm pretty sure this series is gonna be one of my alltime favorites."
Hay there, That book your reading, John Dies at the end, a friend told me about it, she said it was great, you've just convinced me to give it ago lol

[Alan]

Hi everyone.
At the moment I’m reading a book called Megan, it was written by Travis Little. From what little I know of him he is a James Herbert fan, much like myself. You can clearly tell this from his writing style. I’ve only just started it, but I’m really enjoying the story, it’s easy to read, and flows well. If you liked Herbert’s work, I recommend you give it ago.

[Janie]

I'm reading F*ckface: and Other Stories, stories about people struggling to get by in Appalachia. So far I'm really enjoying it.

[Marie-Therese]

I recently read Anaïs Nin at the Grand Guignol.

It was very competent. Levy clearly knows how to write a book and he had a good grasp on his material, but the story itself was just somewhat lackluster, and Nin's psychological issues never really meshed well with the outright terror Levy granted to the milieu of the Grand Guignol. The resulting novel was "fun" but not especially convincing or good. I would be willing to read more by this author, though.

[Don]

Finished reading The Taking Of Annie Thorne, by CJ Tudor, really enjoyable read, here is my review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Scott]

The Taint and Other Novellas

[Dan]

Tattered Souls. This is a Cutting Block Press book, a publisher I posted about here a week or so ago. The book production values are really high: beautiful cover, quality white pages, in a flat 6 x 9 size.

I read the first story by Jeff Crook. An early 1920s safari expedition with an American couple (did anyone actually bring their wife on safari back then?) who accidentally runs over a native woman at night and kills her. Or do they? And what was that native woman doing with the hyena just before she was run over? Or do I really want to know? Good, scary story.

I looked over Jeff Crook's writing recently. He used to run a website: southerngothic.org, but as far as I can tell has done next to no writing these last seven years or so. The day job must be getting in the way. What a shame!

[Bill]

I just finished:

Joel Lane, The Earth Wire and Other Stories

While not all the stories worked for me, the ones that did were really memorable, and a good fit with this group. My review has more details.

[Marie-Therese]

I'm about halfway through Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild, a novel set in a Métis community in northern Ontario.

The rougarou, a local version of the werewolf (loup-garou), plays a big part in this suspenseful tale of a woman searching for her missing husband. It's definitely a horror tale (there are some seriously creepy moments and Dimaline evokes the rougarou to shuddering effect), but the book also covers issues of colonization, both outright (land grabs and oil pipelines) and insidious (Christian evangelism). Joan is a really sympathetic protagonist and her whole family and friend circle (particularly her teenage nephew, Zeus, and her grandmother, Mere) are beautifully realized. I started this book last night and stayed up way too late reading to the half point. I imagine I'll finish it tonight. If it continues in the same vein, this will definitely be one of the best horror genre books I've read this year.

[SSteppenwolFF]

Mother Night BY Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[Bill]

My current books are not very Literary Horror-oriented. But recently:

Mike O'Driscoll, The Dream Operator. Uneven collection of Brit horror, with some excellent stories.

Joel Lane, Scar City. More post-Thatcherite Brit horror, with some of Lane's best work.

Joel Lane, Where Furnaces Burn. Kind of an X-files feel, through Joel Lane's distinctive perspective.

[J.S.]

I've just finished Black Easter by James Blish. Blish is famous for his SF, and I've enjoyed that in the past. He also dabbled in a trilogy of Black Magic Tales of which Black Easter was the second (and I've now started reading the third, The Day after Judgement). Black Easter can supposedly be read as a stand alone novel/ novella. I have to say, I was underwhelmed. Does anybody else have any thoughts about Blish's dabbling in the dark arts and hellfire?

[Melissa]

Randolph wrote: "Right now I'm back into the heroic age of polar exploration and I have a general fascination with what might be called heroic geographical exploration or classic travel narratives, the more horrifi..."

Have you read Dan Simmons' The Terror? Sounds like it would be right up your alley.

[Bill]

Melissa wrote: "Randolph wrote: "Right now I'm back into the heroic age of polar exploration and I have a general fascination with what might be called heroic geographical exploration or classic travel narratives,..."

I co-sign "The Terror." Great book.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Not really horror per se, but...

I finished the classic suspense thriller


Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished an almost 6 month trek through the mammoth-sized


The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished reading the Urban Fantasy novel


Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Vavita]

I am reading Desperation by Stephen King. Really good!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the foremost Swedish vampire novel


Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Night Shift by Stephen King

[J.S.]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished the foremost Swedish vampire novel


Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https:/..."

Thank you for the reviews.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

J.S. wrote: "Thank you for the reviews."

You're welcome. I'm probably not in the majority, but I gotta be me.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[J.S.]

At the moment my main read is non-fiction - Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain . It's about death and funerary practices in Victorian Britain. I'm finding it a fascinating read.