Category Archives: Horror

Martin Cruz Smith’s Nightwing

It can take an author many years of writing to establish their own unique voice and style.  Their early works are often a fascinating “what if” scenario, giving a glimpse of directions a well-known novelist may have alternatively taken.  The … Continue reading

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Laird Barron’s The Imago Sequence

Still working on my NaNoWriMo novel, though I hope to finish well before the end of the month.  In the meantime, I’m trying to catch up on a few long-delayed posts! Last month, I had the pleasure of reading and … Continue reading

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The Lady of the Lake… a scientific ghost story

Ghost stories are somewhat passé in our modern, technical world — many of the mysterious phenomena that used to fill people with fear in past eras have been demystified thanks to our better knowledge of science. The phantom lights in … Continue reading

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Datlow and Mamatas’ “Haunted Legends”

I can always tell when Halloween is near –  wandering through the bookstore, I inevitably find multiple new books of horror that I absolutely cannot resist.  This time around, I found three must-have hardcovers, putting a significant dent in my … Continue reading

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My favorite weird fiction of the past 3 years

Happy (belated) blogiversary to me!  August 14th was the 3rd year anniversary of this blog, a milestone that I missed yet again in the hubbub of daily life.  Nevertheless, an anniversary is a good time for reflection, and one thing … Continue reading

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Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon (Valancourt edition)

With the release of the Valancourt edition of Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon, I thought I’d repost my earlier review of the book, with some modifications specific to this edition. I’ve read a lot of the books of Richard … Continue reading

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Joe Hill’s Horns

Joe Hill is a good horror author, but not an incredibly prolific one; his first book was 20th Century Ghosts (2005), a collection of ghost stories, and his second was Heart-Shaped Box (2007), which I reviewed on this blog a … Continue reading

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Ramsey Campbell’s Creatures of the Pool

As I’ve noted countless times on this blog, Ramsey Campbell is my favorite horror writer of all time.   He is a wizard with words, and the subtle horror of his stories carry a punch that lasts long after you finish … Continue reading

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Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch

I’ve had the good fortune to read many good works of weird fiction since starting this blog — in fact, one of the major motivations for starting the blog was to “force” myself to get back into reading strange and … Continue reading

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The Shadowy Thing, by H.B. Drake

I’ve been having a lot of good luck with my fiction reading lately, and have a backlog of really good (and weird) fiction to blog about.  One that actually gave me a pleasant surprise is The Shadowy Thing (1928), by … Continue reading

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