book reviews
Book reviews for horror fans; weather a sleepless night with literary accounts of hauntings, possessions, zombies, vampires and beyond.
The Rage of Stupid People
As I like to say on Twitter, we’re living in a slow-rolling zombie novel. If you think people are getting dumber, you’re probably right. Research suggests that, as carbon dioxide levels rise in our atmosphere, people will lose intelligence because they can’t think as clearly.
By Amethyst Qu2 years ago in Horror
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
You know, the problem with having niche interests is that most people excuse themselves out of a conversation with me as soon I start rambling about things like prototypical lesbian¹ vampires as literary devices in Victorian-era fiction. It’s not that uncommon of a conversation topic, right? I suppose you just have to be around the right people, though. Good thing I’ve got you.
By J.A. Hernandez2 years ago in Horror
The 7 Best Classic Horror Novels You Should Read This Year
The horror genre has now splintered into so many sub-genres it can be hard to keep track. Not only hard to keep track but so much of it has gotten muddled up and lost in the craft (in my own opinion). The fact is, there's actually an art to telling chilling tales and this list is just a few where their writer has honed that art form. Here are 7 of the best classic horror novels of all time.
By E.A. Wilcox3 years ago in Horror
Unbroken heart
Prologue There weren’t always dragons in the valley but Madison Micheal-son, a twin who has the ability to call for help to dragon that is drawn to her. Always believed that everyone should be given a second chance in life. She realizes a little too late that life itself doesn't follow that idea.Until she is faced in a life threatening situation with a complete stranger Channel Peterson and rescued by the dragon. Channel was taken in front of her house, put in a van to be beaten.After helping save Channel from her kidnappers, took her to the police station to report the crime. She later went back home to her sister and friends for their dinner. A few weeks later news of Channel being taken and saved went viral. About a month later the same men were looking for the life saver of Channel.They found her house and stationed a van to watch her movements and routines.After months of watching, she was involved in an accident that left her conscious with her car flipped over.Daniel Joshua Colons has made an impression with Maddie that made her think he is arrogant and self-centered jerk. Which make her not to like him however he also has a dragon that is drawn to him. He is running in the woods when he smells a leak of gasoline, follows it and finds a car with a person in it. He pulls the door open, tries to help her out of the car. In that moment she passes out and Daniel picks her up and takes her through the forest until he reaches his destination.
By Sarah Elisha3 years ago in Horror
Black Paradox
Context for Black Paradox In Japan, suicide has always been an act linked to the historical, social and cultural tradition of the country. It was part of the code of the ancient samurai, who were willing to give their lives by calling seppuku, a sign of their fervent courage and will to preserve their honor and that of their family above all else.
By Manga Moon3 years ago in Horror
Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito. Top Story - November 2021.
From time to time there appears a person endowed with an intellect far above the average, someone capable of seeing things that normal man can barely observe. I am not referring to a superior being from an evolutionary point of view, but to that individual endowed with a special gift, to his or her ability to cross borders with his or her thinking.
By Manga Moon3 years ago in Horror
Bram Stoker, "Dracula"
Perhaps if Abraham (Bram) Stoker (1847–1912) had not suffered from an illness that forced him to bed until the age of eight, the themes of endless sleep and resurrection from the world of the dead would not have inflamed his imagination so much. The miraculous healing, the physical recovery of which he was the protagonist, capable of transforming an infirm into an athlete, has much in common with the myth of the vampire who, through blood, rejuvenates, regenerates his tissues, inverts the course of nature.
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Horror
William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson is a writer who has been compared to Edgar Allen Poe, although I would veer away from that description for a lot of his stories. I have once more picked up on “The House On The Borderland” which is, in my opinion (and that of a lot of other people) a masterpiece of the unnatural supernatural in the realms of Clark Ashton-Smith, Arthur Machen and HP Lovecraft.
By Mike Singleton 🌜 Mikeydred 🌛3 years ago in Horror