Review:Rooms: A Novel uses a death and a funeral to bring together a small family, full of of mistrust and disappointment, and a haunted house. The ghosts in the house are vague, tied to the house and each other for reasons that are not quite clear. The people--a mother, her adult daughter, adolescent son, and young granddaughter, are full of longing for things they can't have, things they are missing, and things they've unknowingly lost.

The four have come home to an isolated house that they ... Read more

Review:“The knowing of what’s coming, the death that creeps up over the town like fate clawing at the door of every shop and home. I can feel it in the air, in the spray of the sea, in the hollow spaces between raindrops. The sisters are coming.”

This book took me forever to read. Honestly, it was less than a week, but it felt like forever. And my trend of becoming more disinterested as I read continued here unfortunately. The Wicked Deep showcases how small town secrets and a little bit of dang... Read more

Review:This was okay; I can't say that I was riveted throughout, but not a bad read. We are never told what job the protagonist has; maybe I missed it? She really likes to bake but she is home all the time and somehow without any needed income or desire to actually leave her house and go somewhere. She is literally home or at her neighbor's (the one in the spooky house) for the whole book. More characters and perhaps even another plotline or two would have added some depth to what was otherwise a fi... Read more

Review:On the whole, I did enjoy this story...until the ending. I expected so much more since I thought the story was pretty spooky and was building to an ending that would make me want to have a night light on for awhile. I really was disappointed that more wasn't done with the older son - and having the witch end up as maybe a decent sort? Yeah, humanity made their own horror, but come on, that was soooo predictable!
But I have added the author's name to watch for more of his writings, so liked... Read more

Review:Let's start with this: I spent October reading scary stories, and horror is one of my favourite genres; this is the only book to give me the heebie-jeebies for longer than it took me to finish the book. When it was over, I immediately texted my roommate and asked her when she'd be coming home... it was the middle of the day.

The Haunting of Hill House follows our protagonist, Elinor, as she goes to -- you guessed it -- Hill House, where she will be investigating paranormal phenomena with ... Read more

Review:Finally! I've been after HP Lovecraft's works for years but never got around to it. When this Knickerbocker Classics edition showed up I had to get it.

The book is gorgeous to touch, the printing is fantastic, the paper is thicker than expected and the slipcase, though dented in one corner, is thoroughly sturdy and will protect the book for years to come.

I'm gonna make my way through it now - years in the waiting. I'm so excited! Read more

Review:A god in the shed is a dark horror novel that will take you to the small town of Saint-Ferdinand where the line between reality and Lovecraftian horror is very blurred.

With this book, J-F shows that he is more than able to write a story where there is a lot more going on under the surface than can be seen at first. I was surprised at how often J-F managed to slip some information under my nose without me realizing until he punched the information to the light.

If you enjoyed Life ... Read more

Review:Needful Things is better than The Tommyknockers, but not as good as ‘Salem’s Lot -- two other Stephen King novels that share its same basic story structure of a supernatural presence slowly corrupting and effectively destroying a small town. The fact that Needful Things is set in Castle Rock, home to several earlier King stories, lends a certain weight to the proceedings, although this is hampered by the relatively small number of recurring characters.

The larger problem is that the book’... Read more

Review:Most of the stories in Stephen King's first new collection of short fiction in nine years are pretty darn eventual. As the narrator of the title story, "Everything's Eventual," points out, if you want to say something's awesome, but you don't want to sound like every other Joe, you say it's eventual.
Stephen King is a much different writer today than he was when he penned the direct, but effective horror stories in the late sixties and early seventies that comprised his first collection of sh... Read more

Review:OVERALL REVIEW:

Excellent anthology, all of the stories - many of them admirably varied in their sense of horrors - have something to recommend them. This is one of my all-time favorite story anthologies.

STANDOUT STORIES:

1.) "Jerusalem's Lot": An evil, haunted town repeatedly draws members of a cursed family into its Lovecraftian clutches over centuries. This is a loosely linked prequel to the novel 'Salem's Lot.

2.) "Graveyard Shift": A Fourth of July cleaning... Read more