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I'm reading It for the second time. Boy it is interesting to see what I am picking up on my second read. Stuff that a few years and maturity and life experience have allowed me to more fully appreciate the themes and content.

[Ina]

I've just this morning started with the Hillbilly Hollow Paranormal Cosy Corner Mystery series. Not the best I've done so far, but it will do for the moment.Horribly Haunted in Hillbilly HollowThe Ghastly Ghost of Hillbilly HollowA Dastardly Death in Hillbilly HollowA Dangerous Departure From Hillbilly Hollow

[L. Smashing]

Started the classic Psycho. I'm up to chapter 6 and enjoying it so far!

[Char]

. It's good so far!

[Erin]

Room

[Alan]

I got this book because I've really enjoyed several of Pyper's other books, but couldn't remember at all what it was supposed to be about, and decided not to spoil it by reading the synopsis on the back cover and dove right in unknowing. And glad I did. It starts off with an emotional bang, and sudden mystery, and it's not long before it's implied what the truth behind that shocker will turn out to be. From the get-go, there's a pall just seeping off the pages of the story, an immediate gloom that sets the tone and continues throughout. And I'm not quite 40% of the way through yet. Can't wait to see where this one goes next.

[Christopher]

Just finished Disciples of Dread by the great pulpster Hugh B. Cave and have gone on to The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith, a non-horror novel which, since I’m a lifelong silent film fan, is absolute catnip to me.

[Joseph]

Currently: Black Hills by Dan Simmons. Not sure if it's horror but it does have a speculative element.

[Erin]

The Blind Assassin

[[deleted user]]

Escape!

[Alan]

Wasn't sure I would bother with the books since I've seen all the movies, but I have the say, the writing is quite excellent. Although I totally am not that big a fan of Mikael Blomqvist in the book. He's too morally ambiguous. In the movies his lesser qualities are downplayed or removed entirely.

[Atlanta]

Wolves of the calla by Stephen king and listening to the talisman by Stephen king & Peter straub.

[Char]

Christopher wrote: "Just finished Disciples of Dread by the great pulpster Hugh B. Cave and have gone on to The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith, a non-horror novel which, since I’m a life..."

I want to read more by Cave. Is there anything you would recommend?

[[deleted user]]

I expect this to be THE summer read 2019.

[L. Smashing]

just started A Head Full of Ghosts! We'll see how it goes!

[Erin]

The Fault in Our Stars

[Char]

[[deleted user]]

L. Smashing wrote: "just started A Head Full of Ghosts! We'll see how it goes!"

Have joy! AHFoG is clever, intelligent and quite unconventional.

[Christopher]

Char, my recommendation for Hugh B. Cave would be his mammoth collection, Murgunstrumm & Others. Wonderful “Weird Tales”-type pulp horror stories, primarily from the ‘30s and ‘40s. Great stuff—the best are surprisingly effective even today.

[Christopher]

I’m now starting the anthology Acolytes of Cthulhu.

[Marie]

I am reading these three at the moment:

The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright

The Scarecrow by Scott Nicholson

The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Hauntings : The Ultimate A-Z of Spirits, Mysteries and the Paranormal by Theresa Cheung

[Erin]

Sleeping Giants

[Jeff]

Ghosts! by Marvin Kaye.

An ok read, although not all the specters are frightening, and far too many tales are written by "anonymous"...

[Sabine]

The Hunger

[Gavin]

Starting Baal

[Erin]

Library of Souls

[Greg]

Returning to Once Upon a Time in the Weird West after finishing another book, while also dipping into Analog Science Fiction and Fact May/June 2019.

[Christian]

Dahmer's Not Dead by Edward Lee and Elizabeth Steffen

Started this one today for this months The Horror Show w/ Brian Keene's book club pick. Not Lee's usual fare, this is a police procedural, but holy hell is this still good. Should have this finished by tomorrow.

[Gavin]

Reading A Clockwork Orange

[Rob]

Gavin wrote: "Reading A Clockwork Orange"

One of my favorite books, Gavin (and...one of my favorite movies)! It's a challenge to read for the first few chapters, but one catches on to the slang/vocabulary surprisingly quickly. Enjoy!

Re-reading Jack Ketchum's collection of short stories "Peaceable Kingdom". "The Box" is one of my favorite short stories of all time, but the stories seem to be declining in quality the further I go. Oh well.

[Christian]

Snow by Ronald Malfi

[Randy]

Besides dipping into In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit, just started Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories. I've never heard of the author before, so started this on a whim.

[Char]

Christopher wrote: "Char, my recommendation for Hugh B. Cave would be his mammoth collection, Murgunstrumm & Others. Wonderful “Weird Tales”-type pulp horror stories, primarily from the ‘30s and ‘40s. G..."

Thanks, Christopher! That's just AWESOME, because that's the one I bought! :) (I won't mention that I bought it in 2014 and still haven't read it.) Shhhh. :)

[Char]

I started this one over the weekend, but haven't had much time to get into it yet.

[Wes]

Just finished NOS4A2. I felt like it was about 150 pages too long. I felt like I spent a lot of the last third re-reading about details earlier in the book.

Love the creepy Christmas vibe, and the premise though!

[Erin]

Blindness

[Joe]

L. Smashing wrote: "Started the classic Psycho. I'm up to chapter 6 and enjoying it so far!"

A great read. Bloch's masterpiece.

[Joe]

Alan wrote: "

Wasn't sure I would bother with the books since I've seen all the movies, but I have the say, the writing is quite excellent. Although I totally..."
I read the first three on a tear. Loved them. Loved the movies (Swedish original), as well. Stieg Larsson's early death was a real tragedy. You have to wonder where he would have taken the series if he had a few more years.

[sonya]

I loved the millennium series by larrson

[Erin]

The President Is Missing

[Gavin]

Reading East of Eden

[Alan]

Joe wrote: "I read the first three on a tear. Loved them. Loved the movies (Swedish original), as well. Stieg Larsson's early death was a real tragedy. You have to wonder where he would have taken the series if he had a few more years."

Well, if the Langerkranz books are anything like the Girl in the Spider-web movie, the new guy turned her into a one-girl Mission:Impossible kind of character. The action goes from just the computer to using technology to set up motorcycle chases and getting past massive security and shooting and explosions. Definitely not what the Larsson books were about.

[John]

currently the power of the dog and the cabin at the end of the world

[Christian]

Ring of Fire by David Agranoff

[Erin]

Unseen

[Tim]

Finally getting myself to pick back up The Queen of the Damned. Had set it down quite a while ago in favor of quicker reads, and finally in the mood to sink myself into it.

[Char]

John wrote: "currently the power of the dog and the cabin at the end of the world"

I'm a HUGE Winslow fan over here!

[Char]

I'm reading Devouring Dark and I'm intrigued so far.

[Erin]

The Casual Vacancy

[Jeff]

L.P. Hartley's "The Traveling Grave"