For some reason this Stephen King novel seems to keep slipping off my list, and I don’t know why. I stopped it sliding off this time, and dug into a creepy and fun novel that feels like it’s on the edge of other King stories without throwing you right in the middle of one. It’s…
Category: The Book Shelf
The Exorcist’s House (2022) – Nick Roberts
Nick Roberts’ The Exorcist’s House is a fun idea, and it’s filled with little nods to the genre and the tropes, particularly William Peter Blatty’s original novel The Exorcist. But for all that, it seems to be a popcorn horror book. It’s fun, though some of it feels like it goes a little too far…
Hurricane Gold (2007)- Charlie Higson
It’s been awhile since I checked in with James Bond, and his early days as chronicled by Charlie Higson. Set in the 1930s, the young Bond finds himself on an adventure that takes him on a dangerous journey through the Mexican jungles, and a dangerous rat-run on a hidden Caribbean island. That island is a…
Lonesome Dove (1985) – Larry McMurtry
According to USA Today, if I only read one western in my life, it should be Lonesome Dove. I’ve enjoyed western films, and now thanks to the spreading Taylor Sheridan universe, I thought I may dip into it. Clocking in at 858 pages, the 40th anniversary edition is introduced by Sheridan, and I saddled up…
Breakthrough (1995) – Whitley Strieber
It’s been forever since I explored more of Whitley Strieber’s journey. His abductions, and encounters with Visitors. Breakthrough is the third non-fiction book in his documentation of the unusual and powerful encounters with a strange type of intelligence. This time out, he documents his attempt to move forward with his communion with these beings. He…
How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow (2025) – Bonnie Quinn
Cozy horror is apparently a thing. I was happy to dig into something unique and fun, and Bonnie Quinn delivers with the first book in her How to Survive Camping series. The book, and the series, started out as a collection of posts on the No Sleep forum on Reddit. The story centers around Kate,…
The Butcher’s Masquerade (2022) – Matt Dinniman
The fifth book in the incredibly entertaining Dungeon Crawler Carl series is The Butcher’s Masquerade. It’s also the longest one in the series so far. It’s hefty, and there is a lot going on. There are a lot more emotional blows in this one, right from the off, the company running the crawl attempt to…
Blockade Billy (2010) – Stephen King
Somehow I missed this one, so when I came across the fun little harcover (love that cover art) in a local used book store, I snapped it up. It contains the (too) short novella Blockade Billy and a short story called Morality. Morality was interesting it sees the disintegration of a couple’s relationship over a…
The Gate of the Feral Gods (2021) – Matt Dinniman
Book Four of the Dungon Crawler Carl series, The Gate of the Feral Gods, ups the stakes yet again. Carl, Princess Donut, and Katia find themselves in all manner of trouble, and not all of it is taking place in the dungeons. This level, the fifth, is comprised of bubbles. The crawlers have been spread…
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – William Kotzwinkle
So, I’ve been jonesing to re-read the 1985 paperback, E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet. I’ve had it since it came out, and have only read it once. I remember one scene in it, but that’s all I can recall. Since it and the original adaptation of the Melissa Matheson screenplay were written by…
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