Brom – Lost Gods
As things go, I went into this book read completely blind, not knowing what the book was about – just that it was a horror novel (of kinda epic proportions). A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind…
John Wyndham – The trouble with lichen (1960)
The sixth novel by prolific Sci-fi legend John Wyndham, and a return to the biological threat approach he first used in The Day of The Triffids. First published in 1960. “[A] nation’s science simply has to keep up with the Jones’s these days.” Even though this book is a classic, I must say it can…
Cormac McCarthy – Child of God or the story of the western serial killer
1960s, Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman, dispossessed on his ancestral land. Homeless, indulging in voyeurism, he is accused of rape. When he is released from jail, he begins to haunt the hilly landscape – preying upon its population, unleashing his impulse for sexualised violence. Commonplace humanity becomes grotesque and,…
Joe Hill – Ushers – Short story
A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ushers-Short-Story-Joe-Hill-ebook/dp/B0D6RMSDSY “It’s better to just be a mammal. You know, take long naked naps in the sun. Never miss a chance to splash in the tide” Martin Lorensen is a…
Once upon a broken heart – Stephanie Garber
For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts.…
The Dream of Gerontius – John Henry Newman
I watched The Choral the other day and I must say I fell in love with a piece of poetry by John Henry Newman Farewell, but not for ever! brother dear,Be brave and patient on thy bed of sorrow;Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here,And I will come and wake thee on the morrow.…
Han Kang – Human Acts
From the award-winning author of The Vegetarian comes a riveting and poetic examination of humanity at its most appalling, and its most hopeful. “It happened in Gwangju just as it did on Jeju Island, in Kwantung and Nanking, in Bosnia, and all across the American continent when it was still known as the New World,…
The Night Sister (Jennifer McMahon) 2026 Re-read
I accidentally re-read this book due to me being disorganized and I only realized it when the two girls put on a show involving their pet chicken for their guests. On the bright side, I didn’t remember how the book ended, just that the sisters were somehow involved and one of them was definitely dead.…
Sarah Lotz – Missing person or the story of the web sleuths
They are a group of misfits who go online for fun. Their hobby is giving names to the missing dead. But a killer is online with them, and his game is in deadly earnest . . . Shaun Ryan’s brother, Teddy, died in 1989. Only he didn’t. Looking through his grievously ill mother’s personal effects,…
Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman
Hell yeah! Finally a medieval horror book that is so unconventional it is still talked about on the r/horrorlit subreddit. The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas…
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