"Horns" by Joe Hill

Tales By Moonlight
by
Jessica Amanda Salmonson

"The Black Country" by Alex Grecian

Neat to see someone else who knows her. That ones on my to read list.

The Girl With All the Gifts by Mike Carey.

So far its alright. The writing is decent, but when you get to a certain point you realize its just jumping on a popular theme. So that was disappointing. Still its worth a read as light reading.

Dangerous Angels by Kathe Koja

She's so amazing. I have yet to read anything of hers that doesn't impress me a huge amount. A quote from this book:

“There was this girl, Antonia, she thought that, that all clowns were angels, that every clown she saw was somebody's guardian angel. It was,” sweet, “horrible, It was really horrible because every time she saw a clown, even pictures of a clown, she would say 'Is it yours? Is it yours? Is it yours?'” Louder, “Is it yours? is it yours?”
---Kathe Koja Strange Angels

Here we go with a little shit gettin' released from a underground cavern...eatin' people and layin'eggs in human carcasses::cool:: Tim Lebbon : The Silence

Currently reading a book called Acceleration. It's about this teen who finds a diary of a serial killer and then tries to find him.

Zombie Book I love/ The first one is Free
 

Infected Freaks: A strange alien planet approaching, a second civil war, and then a pandemic slams the world in the very beginning of this book. Life has drastically change for Abraham and his family living in the Rocky Mountains near Denver. Infected freaks run wild and the survivors are killing each other for food, weapons; whatever they can get their hands on. Are the infected freaks zombies created in a lab? Or are they something alien related to the approaching planet?

http://www.amazon.com/Infected-Freak...=jason+borrego

http://www.jasonborrego.com/

Wolf's Trap by W.D. Gagliani

can't get enough of werewolves in law enforcement ::love::

or in school or in church or in government or in the local store or in the movie theater or in the... ;)

Well naturally! ::smile::

I'm about halfway through Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry.

Great book!

It really is! It's a second read for me and I'm enjoying it even more this time around.

When you're practically 100 pages in a book and the main character isn't described visually... he's a cactus. A werewolf shifting cactus. It's canon now.

The Secret Life & Brutal Death of Mamie Thurman by F. Keith Davis.

I'm going to start Stephen King's Misery next. I've seen the movie a thousand times, just haven't read the book yet.

Finishing ROCKS:MY LIFE IN AND OUT OF AEROSMITH by Joe Perry. Really good read although I probably would have sucker punched Steven Tyler a few times if I had to work with him.

On deck is TERRORS OF THE SCREEN by Dr Frank Manchel. recall finding this in my little library the Summer of 1971 at age 9 and getting a crash course in horror film history from George Melies up to PLANET OF THE APES. Found it invaluable back then, but interested to see how it will hold up to my older self.

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On deck is TERRORS OF THE SCREEN by Dr Frank Manchel. recall finding this in my little library the Summer of 1971 at age 9 and getting a crash course in horror film history from George Melies up to PLANET OF THE APES. Found it invaluable back then, but interested to see how it will hold up to my older self.[/QUOTE]

Please post your opinion after the next read. I love books on the history of Horror and would be glad to add another title to my already too long must read list.

Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, and Leslie Meier

Please post your opinion after the next read. I love books on the history of Horror and would be glad to add another title to my already too long must read list.[/QUOTE]
Will do...and I know what you mean about "My already too long Must Read List"! I never seem to get ahead::confused::!

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Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.

Very disappointing. The novel's blurb sounds interesting.
I enjoyed very much Mike Carey's Felix Castor series. The Steel
Seraglio was alright. So I expected a decent read here. It wasn't
obviously. The writing is mediocre. However this can be ignored if
the story and characters are worth it. They're not, they're card board
cut outs. Very little depth, filling generic roles we've seen lots of times before. Sympathetic woman. Confused child. Mean/detached doctor/nurse. Rugged, mean Sargent. Etc. As you read the book the author takes two of the currently, probably, most popular themes for the past 5 years and used them. The obvious first one is post-apocalyptic. The second is explained about 1/5th into the book so I won't ruin it if you decided to read this book. The story is not original. The story is not a good interpretation of an often used idea. Pass on this one.

TERRORS OF THE SCREEN-Frank Manchel. As said previously, found this at the little library at Fort Baker CA (right across from San Francisco Bay) in the summer of 1971. My nine year old self had about five FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND and one CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN and had some back history with actors/films, but this gave me a crash course from the turn of the century up to 1968 with films/people I had never heard of like THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, M, James Whale and Val Lewton. It also helped that my local CREATURE FEATURES was having a "90 Day Freeze" showing Double Features of mainly old Universals at about the same time.

After seeing a copy for sale on CREEPY CLASSICS.COM, I had to place an order, probably more for nostalgia sakes than anything else. While I still enjoyed it very much (especially all the photos which so captivated me back then), found it very academically written, almost a McFarland type tome, without the sense of fun many horror histories benefit from. Some goofs and a tendency to throw in spoilers (especially PSYCHO) lessened the books qualities. But to be fair, no Internet back than, so he was probably relying on memory/notes and this is one of the earlier Horror film histories that I know of (Manchel lists some recommended books in the back. some of which I liked very much, especially the Carlos Claren ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE HORROR FILM). So worth checking out and while it hasn't aged well. still takes me back to the little boy who was embarking on a new, exciting and lifelong love affair.

Cool, sounds like maybe I can pass on this one. I bet it was a great bit of nostalgia for you, reading that book after so many years. I have a few in my collection that I feel the same way about.

Btw, the Claren book you mention is an all time favorite of mine.

Thanks for the review, FD.

Alden Bell: Exit Kingdom
A post z-apoc story...it's allright...

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Just finished this. I don't want to describe the plot because its the second book in the Blood Opera Sequence. The first was very good and this one was almost as good. I highly recommend the first and then second while not highly recommended is still recommended.

I posted about this before, but I'll summarize the first book because the summaries I've read on the web are very misleading. Lots of 'sex' implied which is there, but this is not an erotic novel of any sort.

The main character Rachaela lives a very quiet life due to a strong misanthropic mind. She works in a quiet job making just enough to keep an apartment, radio for classical music and book for her and her Cat. She's not timid/shy/etc., just does not like being around people.
She's contacted by a man representing her father. She never her knew her father. Her mother raising her alone. She is then drawn into this new family.

It doesn't sound exciting I guess, but it is written really well and the story is surprisingly engaging and unusual. I was impressed.

Bloofer for some reason I have this feeling you'd like this series, but I couldn't say why. If you give the first book in the series a try let me know what you think. : )

Robert Brockway: The Unoticeables
Good read this one was....a story about supernatural forces takin' control of people and doin' bad stuff. Brand new too, copyright 2015.

Is it a time travel sort of thing? 1977 then 2003 are where two characters are from according to the summary.

I wouldn't call it time travel but yeah the story does taken place in NYC in 70's and Cali. in 2013.

New short novel/novella Death Thing by Andrew Hilbert

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It's a bizzaro 80s-movie influenced story about a bandaged faced freak who decides to fight crime by setting up his car with booby traps such as a blowtorch and guillotine, and then just leaving it open with valuables on the seats. When the cops find out they approve and help him spread the chaos across town.

I'll have to look for this. It actually sounds entertaining. Certainly not something I would've thought of doing while playing GTA.

Its a lot of fun and definitely worth reading. I think its more easily found on eBook than in stores though.

Paul Tremblay: A Head Full Of Ghosts
A tale of demonic possession in the family::devil::

David Janssen - My Fugitive by Ellie Janssen

A biography of one of my favorite TV actors by his first wife.

He had a lot of demons in his life but you would never know it through the characters he plays.

The Fugitive is one of my all time favorite TV series. have all 4 years and watch them frequently.

Still holdin' the top spot fer readin' more horror literature than anyone in this whole county!!
Just got these two in from the library today....

Ellen Datlow: Hauntings
A. Lee Martinez: Too Many Curses

^ If I were an English teacher, that attachment would be poster size right smack dab in the middle of every wall.

I quite agree...ever since reading "The Tell Tale Heart" in Seventh grade English class (skipping ahead) have really liked me some EA Poe. Think it may be time to plan another visit to the wonderful Poe House in Richmond VA. If you like the man's work, you will love visiting this.

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The book is a collection of short stories using the horror theme. The stories are meant to be light, funny, and entertaining.
They're not, they're just bad. Awful highschool level of writing quality. Nothing inventive, anybody could write them. So bad. Pass on it.
1/10

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First half: Very very good stories using themes in religions and horrifying them. Not to make statements socially/religiously, but just taking these themes and twisting them. Really excellent writing/ideas.

Second half: Scholarly essays. One on angels and demons and the possible origins of their myths/religious integration and how they're common themes throughout religion in general. This essay while maybe well researched, is a dull read. Also Cardin limited his scope to the middle east. No comparisons to African, Celtic, north/south/central American ancient religions, etc. It was a very western centric essay.
The other's didn't interest me. One that is a scholarly essay on Romero's movies. Sounds cool, but its just more the same as the above. The Last is about how a certain part of the bible can be read as horror....doesn't the entire thing, new or old, read like an epic horror novel?

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Forgot, I wanted to give a quote from one of the short stories:

"God looks out through each of our eyes, an abyss of insatiable hunger and infinite teeth, and the dark light of His consciousness makes each of us a lamp that illuminates a new terrible truth."

I'm reading the Shirley Jackson classic Haunting of Hill House.

I might sound crazy saying this, but it actually reminds me of Richard Laymon. There is no sex or gore, and the writing is far more poetic, but it has that same, "getting to know likable characters bonding through creepy events" feel that I used to love in his books.

A collection I'm chpping through at the same time is Wide Carnivorous Sky by John Langan. Very good, scary stories about Zombies, Werewolves, Vampires, Edgar allen Poe and Lovecraft.

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The Legend of Hill House reminded me of Richard Matheson. Not sure why though. Such a good book.

I'll check out the collection, ty.