A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
Weirdly, horror fiction is one of those places capable of provoking a sense of calm.
DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.
The Marigold is a quintessential urban horror tale; The Handyman Method relocates the terror to the suburbs.
It's hard to fault the contributors to the volume, or the ambition of the editors.
The novel parcels out its secrets judiciously, saving the final reveal for the very last sentence.
“I’m not a professional person,” says Chris Krawczyk, proprietor of the horror-themed Toronto independent Little Ghosts Bookstore and Café. The...
"These stories ask the question What is a monster? and complicate the definition of 'monster' along the way."
The Black Guy Dies First reads like little more than Horror Noire for the attention-deficit crowd.
What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.