aka @koosli@aus.social. I'm almost exclusively reading horror fiction, truly the greatest of genres.
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45% complete! Kat has read 9 of 20 books.
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life …
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads …
It's a fun, slightly trashy vampyre novel set in Mexico. I enjoyed it.
It's a fun, slightly trashy vampyre novel set in Mexico. I enjoyed it.
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and …
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads …
Time for something light-hearted
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist …
Paul Tremblay writes emotional horror. Cabin is eschatological, excruciating, terrifying and hard to predict. As usual Tremblay is sincere and fearless in his writing. Violent, upsetting, but ultimately kind of beautiful.
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror …
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror …
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in …
I like Cassandra Khaw. Their other book I read was a little bit fantasy in terms of world-building but this one gives us characters inhabiting the same world we do. It's an intensely visual book, which is often an approach I struggle to connect with, but it this case it really worked for me. The visuals are all about the mansion, its contents and the motifs on its surfaces. The horror is folkloric, the story pretty simple but played out effectively. Khaw writes so well, poetic and deliberate. I'd love to read a full length novel of theirs at some point.
I like Cassandra Khaw. Their other book I read was a little bit fantasy in terms of world-building but this one gives us characters inhabiting the same world we do. It's an intensely visual book, which is often an approach I struggle to connect with, but it this case it really worked for me. The visuals are all about the mansion, its contents and the motifs on its surfaces. The horror is folkloric, the story pretty simple but played out effectively. Khaw writes so well, poetic and deliberate. I'd love to read a full length novel of theirs at some point.
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of …
SGJ wrote I Was A Teenage Slasher while he was supposed to be writing a different book. So it has no right to be this good. Like his other books, the characters jump out of the pages. It's a well executed concept, it's funny and it's sad.
SGJ wrote I Was A Teenage Slasher while he was supposed to be writing a different book. So it has no right to be this good. Like his other books, the characters jump out of the pages. It's a well executed concept, it's funny and it's sad.
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of …
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
I really enjoyed the first half or so for the interesting backdrop of the Cultural Revolution as told by a Chinese author and the lively dialogue and general good humour. Later on, however, so much of it is recounted rather than played out through the characters which was disappointing and felt like lazy storytelling. I wasn't super interested in the long departures into physics, but that's down to taste more than anything. I'd still recommend this, though.
I really enjoyed the first half or so for the interesting backdrop of the Cultural Revolution as told by a Chinese author and the lively dialogue and general good humour. Later on, however, so much of it is recounted rather than played out through the characters which was disappointing and felt like lazy storytelling. I wasn't super interested in the long departures into physics, but that's down to taste more than anything. I'd still recommend this, though.
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …
