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Horror

Book Review: Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom

December 15, 2009

As a librarian and Z List Internet celebrity, people have been sending me lots of books and saying “Review this!”  I happily accept these gifts, on the condition that I reserve the right to hate anything that an author sends me.  When the author sends me something I don’t like, we keep it between us. [...]

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13 Days of Darkness Finale: The Face At The Window

October 31, 2009

I am good with words, but I can’t count.  It turns out that I got sidetracked and 13 Days of Darkness only had 11 installments, including today.  But!  As promised, here is a short story I wrote.  I have had this image in my head for years, but it was nice to finally have a [...]

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13 Days Of Darkness Part 7 – Book Review: The Dark Descent

October 27, 2009

Last week we talked briefly about the Modern Library’s Tales of Horror And The Supernatural.  Some of you had read it and many of you knew some of the stories from it.  There is one other anthology of horror worth mentioning: The Dark Descent. Actually, “worth mentioning” doesn’t really say it. It’s worth reading every [...]

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13 Days of Darkness Part 6 – Why Do We Like To Be Scared?

October 24, 2009

When I was seven or eight years old I begged my parents to let me stay up late and watch Poltergeist with them.  They finally relented, probably to teach me a lesson.  They regretted it.  For the next few nights, I would get in my own bed until I started imagining trees breaking through my [...]

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13 Days of Darkness Part 5 – Essential H.P. Lovecraft

October 23, 2009

H.P. Lovecraft was miserable during his life.  He never felt good about himself or anything he accomplished.  He died early and that spared him a long life of self-loathing and bad health. However, during his short life, he wrote some of the most memorable horror fiction of all time, inspiring legions of  writers whose ranks [...]

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13 Days of Darkness Part 3 – The Burr Woman

October 21, 2009

I spent so much of my childhood wishing I was older.  Now I suspect that I’ve forgotten about 95% of what happened to me as a kid.  But I’ve never forgotten the day I brought home a book called Monsters You’ve Never Heard Of from the library. I read a lot now and I read [...]

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13 Days of Darkness Part 1 – Book Review: Song of Kali

October 19, 2009

The next 13 days are a countdown to Halloween.  Therefore, I’ll be writing every day about darker, colder, more skeletal and demonic things than is usually the case around here. It starts with this review of Song of Kali and will end on Halloween with a short story I’ve written for you. Song of Kali [...]

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Book Review: Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Series

May 23, 2009

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is another of ALA’s most frequently challenged books. This one is harder to argue with, in my opinion. Should it be censored? Of course not, but then, nothing should. There is no arguing that these books aren’t scary, particularly the ghoulish artwork by Stephen Gammel. I’m sure that [...]

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Book Review: Hater

April 28, 2009

Hater By David Moody Hater is heavy on action and heavy on metaphors. A strong start eventually fizzles out a bit predictably, which it too bad: only as the so-so final act winds down do we realize that this is the start of a trilogy. Dog Blood will continue the bloody saga sometime in the [...]

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Book Review: The Terror

April 12, 2009

Have you ever wanted to have scurvy? If so, go read The Terror and cross scurvy off the list of diseases you’ve been dreaming about test-driving. Holy crap. I don’t read much horror anymore. Back in high school when I loved to think of myself as dark and tormented, I read nothing but lurid tales [...]

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