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“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. “

July 5, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!” This was an excellently creepy, dripping with atmosphere, delight of a book. It hard to properly give this novel its due without spoiling the whole thing so you’ll just have to trust me, and the countless reviewers before me, that this is worth seeking out. The Blackwood family consists of: Mary […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:71 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle ·
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The key to great horror

July 5, 2017 by Lindzgrl 2 Comments

  Okay so, the version of this I added to my audiobook queue actually turned out to be the audio drama version, which I was not expecting. Thus there’s a chance it’s a bit different than the printed version due to the fact it was all told in dialogue. However, I will definitely say if you can get your hands on the audio drama, grab it. The voice acting was great and had some decent talent behind it (including Haley Joel Osment and Stephen King). […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Ghost, Haunted House, historic, joe hill, key, Lovecraft, Massachusetts

Lindzgrl's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Ghost, Haunted House, historic, joe hill, key, Lovecraft, Massachusetts ·
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“Stay away from windows. And if you see people with tentacles, stay away. Don’t let them touch you.”

July 5, 2017 by scootsa1000 4 Comments

Would you believe me if I told you that I just read the strangest, most disgusting, horrifically violent, semi-apocalyptic book of all time, and that it cracked me up and I loved it? Most of you cannonballers would, since you are the nutjobs that recommended this one! The Library at Mount Char isn’t easy to explain. But I’ll try. One summer day in the 1970s, disaster strikes at a neighborhood barbecue, orphaning 12 kids and leaving them to be raised by “Father,” an older man […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: cbr9, Scootsa1000, scott hawkins, the library at mount char

scootsa1000's CBR9 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: cbr9, Scootsa1000, scott hawkins, the library at mount char ·
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The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

She’s up all night for good fun….she’s up all night to finish the girl with all the gifts

July 4, 2017 by tillie Leave a Comment

“If the road to knowledge was paved with dead children she’d still walk it” I read this book in two days. I stayed up at night, survived work all bleary eyed and then went home to read more. This book is tense, y’all. It opens with Melanie a smart girl, a girl dreaming about Greek mythology. She likes Pandora. She likes the name and the box and the hope that is unleashed with the evil. “And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: cbr9, horror, M.R. Carey, Mathildehoeg, The Girl with All the Gifts, thriller, YA, Young Adult, zombie

tillie's CBR9 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cbr9, horror, M.R. Carey, Mathildehoeg, The Girl with All the Gifts, thriller, YA, Young Adult, zombie ·
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Some People Call Him The Space Vampire

July 3, 2017 by Julie Leave a Comment

Apparently they made a movie about this called Lifeforce but I’ve never seen it.  It sounds like from reading reviews that the movie is way better than the book, so maybe you want to go watch the movie instead of reading this book? There are some astronauts who find an alien ship that is full of what looks like corpses in suspended animation, and they start trying to study them.  The bodies are humanoid but are obviously alien and seem to be dead.  But then […]

Filed Under: Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: 1970s, Aliens, colin wilson, vampires

Julie's CBR9 Review No:20 · Genres: Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: 1970s, Aliens, colin wilson, vampires ·
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Cthulhu is An Equal Opportunity Employer

July 3, 2017 by Julie Leave a Comment

What could be worse than living in the world where the mythos of Cthulhu is real and the Old Ones are merely a spell book reading away from returning to earth to devour humanity?  This is the question asked in this novella, a re-telling of one of Lovecraft’s more infamous and racist stories, “The Horror at Red Hook.” Before I read this novella, I read that story in preparation.  Well, more accurately, I skimmed it.  I’ve read some Lovecraft and enjoyed it, when it wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: cthulhu mythos, Hugo Nominee, novella, Reboot, Victor LaValle

Julie's CBR9 Review No:17 · Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cthulhu mythos, Hugo Nominee, novella, Reboot, Victor LaValle ·
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