Currently I'm reading horror, almost exclusively
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Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …
Film and sound nerdery, Crowley-esque occult magic and meatballs, what else would you want? I really enjoyed this one and can't wait to read Mexican Gothic (which Father Christmas has kindly bestowed).
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her …
What an original little book. Borne (who in my mind usually looked like Philippe from Achewood, only a tentacled vase?) is a weird creature found by the main character, Rachel. Despite being set in yet another post-collapse dystopia, this book is anything but cliché.
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. It was …
Terrifying, combining a well-told and paced story combined with depth and subtlety. I recommend this so highly.
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. It was …
I'm about halfway through and enjoying this so much, I'm so nervous about where the story goes!!
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. It was …
Hell yes... excited to be back on the SGJ
Myths are full of lies. This is not one of them.
Fleeing the downfall of …
I loved this and I needed to sit with it a while after I finished, before starting my next book. It's a body-horror/fairytale/love story between a 'mermaid' on land and her (plague) doctor, as they intervene in a morbid cult run by three false saints. It's like nothing I've read before (okay, maybe it's a bit T. Kingfisher-y - a good thing) and it's really beautifully written.
This begins as crass fun but it becomes very clear that it was never envisaged that this book might be read by someone other than a horny American white boy
I haven't listened to the podcast this is based on but I don't think it mattered. It's an entertaining book filled with weirdness and silliness, but with a real story underneath. It was good? But I don't think it will leave much of an impression on me.
I have never listed to the podcast but this is pretty fun a few pages in...
We can confidently say I am now a committed T. Kingfisher fan since reading What Moves The Dead, and now this. The Hollow Places follows two likeable main characters as they stumble upon a multiverse portal through a wall in the back of an eccentric small town museum. The story is gripping and unpredictable and once I got so far I literally couldn't put it down. More please!
I hesitate to recommend this book because it covers some difficult terrain. Having said that, I've already recommended it to a couple of people. I was mostly enthralled and terrified by the story but I could have done without the prologue and epilogue, which seemed to lack the originality of the rest of the book.
A trans horror, so the back cover tells me
