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FLESH EATING ANCIENT SPIDER APOCALYPSE

The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

August 4, 2019 by Caesar's Wife 3 Comments

Have you ever wanted to read a story where an overweight, Steve Jobs knockoff gets explosive diarrhea in the jungle and then has his face eaten from the inside by a horde of prehistoric spiders? … No? Then this book probably isn’t for you. In my case, from the very first chapter, I was All. In. It was like a lower-brow version of World War Z. I liked the many viewpoints, the world-wide scale, and the attempts at character development. Along the way, I found […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Ezekiel Boone, The Hatching

Caesar's Wife's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Ezekiel Boone, The Hatching ·
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Not my wheelhouse, but it could be (Bingo #2)

Carrie by Stephen King

August 3, 2019 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Cbr11bingo Not my wheelhouse I don’t like being scared. Never have. When I was a kid, I had to leave the room if a commercial for a scary movie or show came on. I never wanted to go to haunted houses at Halloween, and I would avoid trick or treating at houses where it looked like someone was going to try to scare me. A few cannonballs ago, I reviewed Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which is a dark story but […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: carrie, cbr11, cbr11bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, horror, Stephen King

ElCicco's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: carrie, cbr11, cbr11bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, horror, Stephen King ·
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Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

July 29, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Try and contain your shock, but a book by Joe Hill is dark. I’m used to the horror author writing books that have a macabre bent, but this was less “skeleton and ghost dark” and more “I’m gonna curl up on the couch and remind myself that this is fiction dark.” The collection is four novellas connected loosely by abnormal weather – lightning storms in “Snapshot,” a firestorm in “Loaded,” an unusual cloud in “Aloft” and fulgurite rain in “Rain.” But the darkest part of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: cbr11bingo, joe hill, The Collection

octothorp's CBR11 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: cbr11bingo, joe hill, The Collection ·
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A Man of Hubris

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

July 26, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

I have seen a few of the movie adaptations of Frankenstein but somehow I never got around to reading the book. I knew that it was supposed to be rather different and much more sophisticated than a simple horror story, and I was really excited to finally read it, but I have to admit I’m sorely disappointed after finishing it, and a big part of this is the main protagonist. Victor Frankenstein has to be one of the most pathetic and self-obsessed idiots ever created […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, classics, Mary Shelley

blauracke's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, classics, Mary Shelley ·
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Read this and you’ve picked a winner

The Lottery: Graphic Novel by Shirley Jackson

July 23, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr11bingo #BacktoSchool There might be a few spoilers if you are not familiar with Shirley Jackson’s work, The Lottery. I have read Shirley Jackson’s book, The Lottery, at least once. Probably more as she is a Vermont author that is known for being from a town south of me; therefore, teachers feel the need to introduce her into the curriculum at some point. I always got the basic elements of the story: there is a lottery in a small town. For what, you are not […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: adaptations, cbr11bingo, Miles Hyman, Shirley Jackson

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:282 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: adaptations, cbr11bingo, Miles Hyman, Shirley Jackson ·
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The Start of King’s Best Books

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

July 18, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger 4 Comments

Apparently lots of people who like The Dark Tower series don’t like this book, and I really don’t understand that. I love the whole series enough to have a tattoo from it, Song of Susannah is clearly the weakest of the books, and The Gunslinger is some of King’s best writing, ever. The exact criticism I hear of it, that it’s a western and not a horror, is what I think allows it to be so great, because it allows King to break from his […]

Filed Under: Horror, Western Tagged With: Stephen King

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:14 · Genres: Horror, Western · Tags: Stephen King ·
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