Ish. Comedy-ish. I thought Phantom was funny, anyway.

( The Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire, Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley )

Someone on Barnes and Noble called this a "horror cozy," which is a description I kind of love, especially in the context of Other Worlds. This book is a pair of novellas describing two rather famous American poltergeist cases, the (inaccurately named) Bell Witch and the Stratford haunting. The novellas are connected by a frame story, psychic ( Read more... )

Through the Woods is a short collection of five graphic novel horror stories, and yet, that description is not nearly enough.

You've probably seen part of Through the Woods before. His Face All Red makes its way around Tumblr every so often. However, it's the only one of the five that's available on the internet. The other four stories can only be ( Read more... )

I genuinely do not know what to say about Magic for Beginners. Well, I read it for my book club, that's one thing. Another: it's a collection of short stories, all fantasy in genre, most of them on the realistic end of the scale but all of them deeply strange nonetheless. It's just... it's a very odd book. Surreal, that's a good word for it ( Read more... )

The Book: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. ( Cutting the rest for obvious reasons, but for those three of you who've never heard of Lolita, SO MUCH child abuse, rape, and CSA behind the cut. )

The Book: Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. ( Cutting the rest for obvious reasons, but for those three of you who've never heard of Lolita, SO MUCH child abuse, rape, and CSA behind the cut. )

I love Sarah Waters. I love that she writes queer historical fiction that (usually) ends happily. It is so damn rare to find a queer couple in a historical fiction novel that gets a goddamn happy ending and Sarah Waters usually manages it, and it makes me smile, so naturally when I found Affinity (and found out that it involved the spiritualist ( Read more... )

Okay, evidently I forgot to copy this to DW/LJ, so here we go ( Read more... )

Puck, do not read this review. Anyone else who is triggered by zombies of any sort, do not read this review. If you have not read Feed, do not read the marked sections of this review or the comments; since it came out so long ago (hah, all of three months), I merrily spoil shit all over the place, and there will probably be spoilers in the comments ( Read more... )

( Writing Meme: Day 22 )