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cbr12bingo – Adaptation!

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

July 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It is 1954, and a young man named Atticus is headed home to Chicago. In Chicago he will find his beloved uncle and aunt, who together run The Safe Negro Travel Guide and Travel Agency. His uncle, like himself, is a lover of pulp novels and dime store comics. His aunt travels the country alone, adding stops to the travel guide while looking at the stars. He’ll find his little cousin, a comic-book hound and talented artist. He’ll find his old friend Titia, who has […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre ·
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Things That Go Bump in the Night (in German)

You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlman

January 4, 2019 by Danar the Barbarian 3 Comments

Hey everyone, it’s my first review for my first Cannonball Run!  Please forgive me if this is a bit rough. I picked up a copy of You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlman at the library.  It’s a tiny volume, just over a hundred pages long.  The cover notes that it is “translated from the German”.  I am always a bit torn reading books translated from another language – it makes me wonder what I am missing, and if I’m really getting what the author put […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Daniel Kehlman, Haunted House, horror, novellas

Danar the Barbarian's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Daniel Kehlman, Haunted House, horror, novellas ·
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Just Google It Already

January 5, 2018 by TyburnBlossom Leave a Comment

I’m not sure what it says about me that within three chapters of this book, I thought, “This had better end with a divorce.” Really, I don’t know what it says about me that my standard reaction to married couples in books is the same. Or most episodes of House Hunters. In this book, though, the husband spends the first few chapters so busy throwing red flags that I don’t know how he got anything done. I’m struggling hard with what to say about this […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Haunted House, horror

TyburnBlossom's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Haunted House, horror ·
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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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Midsomer Marple tries her hand at ghostbusting

December 28, 2014 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

The other day, I looked at my “Already on the Kindle” shelf over on Goodreads and I thought to myself “you know, I have a LOT of crime books here. Like a LOT”. So I decided, there and then, to make 2015 my Year of Crime. While I’m not going to devote myself solely to reading crime novels, they will make up the majority of my Cannonball 7 input. The plan originally was to end Cannonball 6 with Station Eleven, but it was so good I burned […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Agatha Raisin, crime, Haunted House, MC Beaton, whodunnit

popcultureboy's CBR6 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Agatha Raisin, crime, Haunted House, MC Beaton, whodunnit ·
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