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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

August 4, 2021 by Ellesfena 4 Comments

Bingo category: Rec’d (by Mobius Walker) The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires isn’t exactly what I thought it was, based on the title. I was picturing a silly piece of fluff, full of ridiculous Southern sayings, mint juleps, genteel, condescending white women in Lilly Pulitzer dabbing their foreheads with handkerchiefs and gossiping in between killing vampires. A sort of vampire cozy. To Grady Hendrix’s credit, he wrote something much more substantial than that. It’s completely bizarre and definitely has some issues, but it […]

Just the right level of Creep

Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

August 3, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

“No matter how many times I vowed to quit, every night I found myself with the candle lit, the ring on my finger, trying to get through to my dad. Because I needed to find him. I needed to tell him I was sorry I killed him.” Willa and her mother are following her new Hollywood hotshot stepfather out to LA. They both hope it will be a chance for them to start over. To put to rest the notion that Willa will somehow be […]

As if cleaning out Mean Grandma’s hoard wasn’t unpleasant enough, now there are possibly monsters?

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

July 30, 2021 by Bothari43 4 Comments

I had read good things about T. Kingfisher from other Cannonballers, so when I saw this one at the book store I grabbed it. I will definitely be seeking out more of her stuff. This is a story about a heroic dog. Okay, maybe not really, but the dog is a very important part of the story, and the storyteller says over and over that if Bongo had been scared, she would’ve run. She trusted his instincts more than her own. We all think that […]

Zombies or ghosts? Why not both?

The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates

July 30, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Look, this isn’t a masterpiece. I don’t think Coates meant it to be that either. But it was fun and sometimes that’s all you need. The Haunting of Ashburn House is the pretty scary story of Adrienne, a 20-something woman who inherits an old house from her great aunt, Edith. Broke, without any living relatives and as good as homeless, Adrienne chooses to move into this house with her cat Wolfgang because then at least she’ll have a roof over her head. The house is […]

“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

July 29, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was good, but it is very dated. He focuses on horror in the thirty year period of the 1950’s to the 1980’s, although he does have a foreword to the latest edition where he brings up more modern movies, but that’s only about thirty pages, and the rest of the 400 pages are still focused on horror that was all released before I was born (and I’ve never liked it enough to seek any of it out). It’s also less interesting to me personally […]

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

July 28, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

This is my #home square for CBR13 bingo. Home Before Dark was incredibly fun to read! It reminds me of the kind of meta consideration of true crime documentary subjects in a book I recently reviewed, Every Last Fear. This time, it’s a meta consideration of the subjects of a haunted house book. Along the lines of Amityville Horror, the book at the center of this narrative tells the story of a small family who moved into a large estate called Baneberry Hall in Vermont. […]

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