by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 8, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Jeffrey Ford wants to give his readers a creature feature, haunted house story in The Twilight Pariah. He also wants it to be quirky and funny, by virtue of the odd trio of college students involved. Problem is, it just fell flat for me. Not scary, and not especially...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 4, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Stephen King doesn’t always write horror stories with gore and fear. Sometimes his stories are the horror of “what if.” In Elevation, he explores what would happen if a man kept losing weight even when his body shape didn’t change. It’s an odd thing to consider horror...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 23, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, RELAX: Mystery-Thriller
This was my first Jennifer McMahon book, which I started because of a Litsy buddy read. Normally I read wintry books in the summer, when I need to feel cooler! Nevertheless, I dived in and enjoyed the storytelling.Fundamentally, The Winter People is about grief and...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 9, 2018 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
David Mitchell creates a “head scratcher” of a horror story in Slade House. It’s not a long book, but it’s got plenty of story depth and oddities. Reading Slade House is like watching a horror movie. In both cases, you just want to scream to the kind, innocent...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 2, 2018 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Graveyard Book from Neil Gaiman is a charming, middle-grade, coming-of-age story. I listened to the full-cast audiobook, and followed along via ebook.Nobody Owens (called Bod by his friends) is a human, orphaned boy who just happens to live in a graveyard. His...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 18, 2017 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In his introduction to the collection Just After Sunset, Stephen King lays out his track record with short stories. As with many authors of his generation, he got his start publishing short stories in genre magazines. And then he started writing novels, and the...
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