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Horror Month 2023: #12

Ghosts of East Baltimore by David Simmons

October 31, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

While Horror Month 2023 has been a minor disappointment, it did encourage me to finish books I would have otherwise put off reading. That includes this little ditty, which I greatly enjoyed. I’ve worked and lived in Baltimore. I love the city so much. But it is a city of heartbreak. Violent crime, racial disparity, income inequality, a paucity of resources for young people, drug overdoses everywhere. It’s not the citizen’s fault, it’s the city’s for being so inept, the state of Maryland for being […]

Horror Month 2023: #10

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

October 30, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

This was the kind of book I was hoping to discover when giving Horror Month a shot. It’s not the best book I’ve read this year, nor even this month. But it’s the kind of thing I was hoping to read: quality psychological horror that is beyond the mainstream. Getting this rec from Max Read’s substack was a gift. It was a delight to pour through Tryon’s rich language as he slowly but surely developed the characters, parceling out horror bit-by-bit until the big reveals, […]

Horror Month 2023: #8 and #9

Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein

Come Closer by Sara Gran

October 26, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

I meant to review every book of Horror Month separately but I happened to consecutively read these two and they both feature women going through…transformations. So I figured it made sense to talk about them both on one page. Reptile Memoirs**** This is billed as a horror mystery but aside from a woman’s weird psychosomatic fascination with a snake, there’s not much in the way of horror, if that even qualifies as horror. That’s okay though; this is an interesting enough mystery tale with shifting […]

“Danger for Black girls was different. It didn’t obey the boundaries of stories. For them, it was always real.”

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

October 24, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 3 Book 10/30 I am being cursed with three-star reads. The frustrating thing about this one is that for the most part I can’t really pinpoint why it didn’t work for me. So fair warning, this review will probably read like I’m still trying to work that out, because I am. One thing I can say is that after having finished, if this book failed to cohere as a story for me, at least it failed in interesting ways, […]

Power Moves

I Feed Her To the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

October 19, 2023 by Owlizabeth 1 Comment

It has been nearly a month since I finished this book and I’ve been attempting to write this in a back corner of my mind since then. I still don’t know how to say exactly what I want to say, but I must say something so here goes. THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING MIND BLOWING STARTLINGLY ORIGINAL AND TOUCHING AND NOW YOU SHOULD READ IT. Damn, that word count isn’t enough. Let’s do better. I Feed Her… came to my attention through social media, an author […]

Horror Month 2023: #7

The Remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman

October 18, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

This is the kind of horror I was hoping to get into when I started my horror-only commitment this month. While I don’t think it was an especially good book, it did what it needed to do for me and I enjoyed it. I’ve never been a big horror movie fan for several reasons: 1. I’m a scaredy cat, 2. I find most of the blood and gore stuff to be tastelessly pornographic. 3. I prefer verisimilitude in books and movies. Also, jump scares really […]

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