Horror/Dark Fantasy
a book that lends itself to horror or fantasy or a dark nature
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THE WHISPERING SKULL – Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud has done it again … he has written a spell-binding, terrifying novel in a world where ghosts are real and quite threatening. In The Whispering Skull, book two of Lockwood & Company, our intrepid ghost hunters Lucy, Lockwood, and George investigate the hauntings of a Victorian doctor who raided graveyards and built a… Continue reading
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SNOWBLIND – Christopher Golden
I’ve said it before … sustaining horror/terror through an entire novel is extremely difficult. Author Christopher Golden works hard to create a unique horror story, is often successful, but over-all the book felt a bit flat. A dozen years ago, a small New England town was hit with a tremendous storm in which people went missing and stories… Continue reading
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ARTFUL – Peter David
If Charles Dickens wrote horror fiction today, he would have written something very much like this. I must admit that when I requested and downloaded this book, I did so first because I recognize author Peter David as being a fine writer, and second because I thought that this might be a novel focussing more… Continue reading
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THE STRAIN – graphic novel
It’s not often that I get an uncomfortable feeling when reading a graphic novel, but The Strain, Volume 1 is appropriately eerie. Based on a novel, and possibly a film or television series (I’m not entirely certain) created by Guillermo del Toro, The Strain twists the vampire legend back into something darker and more in… Continue reading
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THE GHOST PRISON – Joseph Delany
This was one of the older books in my to-be-read queue. Had I realized what a quick, short read it was, I’m sure I would have gotten to it much sooner. With not even 100 pages, and much of that filled with art, the reading is extremely quick. And that is sort of a problem. I love… Continue reading
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THE WRAITH – graphic novel
I like a good horror story, and I clearly enjoy graphic novels, so I thought that this would be right up my alley, but … well … I’m still not entirely sure what to make of this. I’ve been thinking on it for a few days now. I know nothing about the background of author… Continue reading
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THE SCREAMING STAIRCASE – Jonathan Stroud
I don’t know what took me so long to read this book (other than I’m really backed up with Advanced Reading Copies), but now that I’ve read it, I can’t wait to dig in to book number two (which just recently appeared in my ARC queue). Author Jonathan Stroud has created an alternate England that… Continue reading
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THE EXTINCTION PARADE, VOL 1 – graphic novel
Max Brooks, perhaps best known for his novel World War Z, is playing with zombies again, this time pairing them with another form of fiend — the vampire. A pair of female, Asian vampires, who’ve been around for a long time, delight in the uprising of the zombies. Watching them slaughter humans who have no… Continue reading
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AMERICAN VAMPIRE, VOL. 6 – graphic novel
Well…this just didn’t work for me. In part, it’s my own fault — I didn’t catch on that this was a collection of short works with a vampire theme, so of course when the story switched characters and drastically switched art, I was lost. That’s when I stepped back and checked to see what I… Continue reading
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