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25th October 2011, 09:33 AM
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| Re: October - Horror Month Well, I've come to an end on my October "horror" month's reading (albeit slightly earlier than anticipated) and it was a mixed bag. My favourite by far was Robert Aickman's "The Unsettled Dust" but I knew I was going to love that. Middling were the two anthologies by Peter Haining "Magicians" and "Nightmare Reader" as well as Ramsey Campbell's "The Hungry Moon". Most disappointing was William Hope Hodgson's "The Ghost Pirates" which I had high hopes for. It was better than the last thing I read by him "The Night Land" but that's not saying much. So, now I'm going to take a well earned break from horror. I look forward to next October though for another batch of chillers...  |
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30th October 2011, 06:19 AM
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| dark and stormy knight  | Re: October - Horror Month  Finished this today. This could never be a best of the year anthology; every story was a winner, and each succeeding story was better and creepier than the one before. The last, and creepiest of all, was Shirley Jackson's "The Lovely House, loaded with dream like eccentricity and not unlike that line from "Hotel California": You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave. Highly recommended. |
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31st October 2011, 10:51 PM
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| Re: October - Horror Month My copy of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski just came in. It's a beast of a novel and probably the first actual printed book I've read in two years. I'm excited about diving into it. |
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1st November 2011, 02:23 AM
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| Beam Me Up Scotty  Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Australia, New South Wales
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| Re: October - Horror Month I've just been reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood. So far 50% or so through the 3rd book. Seeing that the Halloween has finally passed (well here it has), doesn't mean I'll be stopping! I still have 3 more Books of Blood to devour before I'm finished.  |
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2nd November 2011, 12:25 PM
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| Re: October - Horror Month Hey don't worry Thatollie, I can surpass that. I didn't even finish one book in October....  I started a few but have simply not finished any of them yet. They're all excellent books, so I blame work commitments...  |
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3rd November 2011, 05:35 AM
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