Horror – Page 185 – Cannonball Read 17

“A small creature swallowed whole by a monster…”

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

May 9, 2019 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

“Horror,” Laura Miller says in the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Haunting of Hill House, “turns on the dissolution of boundaries […] between the outside of the body and everything that ought to stay inside.” Maybe the way horror lurks in liminal spaces, only rarely coming right out in the open, has something to do with how much I enjoy the genre. And The Haunting of Hill House serves masterfully as our guide to those cracked and uncertain places.

A Supernatural, Romantic Thriller-Adventure with a Side of Misogyny

The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker

April 30, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

At the end of the 19th century, Englishman Archibald Hunter moves to Scotland and comes into possession of some documents dating back to the Spanish Armada. He then goes on a treasure hunt with young Marjory Drake, an American heiress, whom he just met. One of the main problems with the book is that it really doesn’t know what it wants to be. In the beginning, Archie has a vision and meets a seer who explains to him that he has the second sight. Shortly […]

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Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

April 25, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I’m the kind of person who picks up books based entirely on the cover. If the back cover pitch does it for me, I will buy it without reading a word, based entirely on how much I like the cover art and blurb. I like to think Publishers have a certain faith in their ability to convey books to us through font and art, and I trust that if they make a cover I really dig then the book will be a-okay by me. This […]

“When creative people do their best work, they’re hardly ever in charge, they’re just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

April 23, 2019 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

I have had this beaten-up paperback copy of Everything’s Eventual in my backpack for at least a year, reading a few pages here, a short story there. I was enjoying it, but kept forgetting it was there, usually opting to listen to Audible or read on my kindle when I had some free time. And finally, I went for a walk at lunch today, found a cute table outside a sandwich shop, and sat down to finish it. I’m pretty sure that this was only […]

Almost as if part of him enjoyed telling her this.

The Good House by Tananarive Due

April 15, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Aside from classic books like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I have not read a lot of horror books not written by Stephen King. I’ve read almost every thing that he has written without fail. I think I am about 5 shy of completion. I also have read a half dozen Anne Rice books. And I think it stops there. So this book is a departure. I’ve been interested in Tananarive Due novels for a while, but I haven’t had access to […]

Apologies to whoever sat next to me while I read this

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

April 14, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The Library at Mount Char is a strange book. Sometimes it’s really interesting and suspenseful; other times, it’s horrific (as in horror literature, not general quality). The thing is, at least for me, is that the two don’t quite mesh together. The general story follows Caroline and Steve, who apparently has some kind of criminal past but now lives a quiet life as a plumber. He meets Caroline who seems a little off but who offers him an unusual amount of money to help her […]

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