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Books! Book reviews, book news, and whatever else you need to know about the world of Horror in book form.

Mike’s Book Report: What Moves The Dead (2022)

Mike’s Book Report: What Moves The Dead (2022)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

HP Lovecraft dug writing short stories. Edgar Allen Poe did too. Even the great Stephen King has been known to clack out a short story or two (hundred). Most horror writers have the keen ability to take a simple concept and extemporarily expound the idea in fairly concise and confined was. Sometimes this works and sometimes there’s a lot of questions begged and a lot more exposition that’s required. 

Book Report: 3 Monstrous Audiobook Recommendations for Light Spring Listening

Book Report: 3 Monstrous Audiobook Recommendations for Light Spring Listening

A Dirty Job: ★★★★1/2

The Kaiju Preservation Society: ★★★★

Gil’s All Fright Diner: ★★★1/2

Are you at home networking while listening to audiobooks? Do you have a long drive in front of you, and you need something to keep you occupied on your journey? Looking for something light and fun and horror-tinged, but not so graphic as to make you want to run from the room and pee your pants? Here are three fun listens available on Audible for some amusing monstrous titles.

Mike’s Book Review: The Remaking (2020)

Mike’s Book Review: The Remaking (2020)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★

A determined novel that spans multiple time frames and plumb near covers every last aspect horror genre — except for UFOs and Bigfoot. That might sound like a stretch, but it ain’t. There’s witches. There’s ghouls. There’s 1970s grindhouse lore. There’s the conventions and their inevitable fan-boy hangers on.  There’s even true crime podcasters. This book covers it all. Maybe that’s a good thing and maybe it’s not. 

Mike’s Book Report: Devolution (2020)

Mike’s Book Report: Devolution (2020)

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ The perfect metaphor/antidote to 2020. Well-meaning people set out to change the world, lessen their foot print, and revel in their own brainy viewpoint. Only to be horrifically outdone by the unplanned mysteries of mother nature and her largely uncaring and brutish ways. Devolution is exists in a very real space with very real consequences. It’s everything that 2020 has offered. From the hopefully earnest to the horrifically primal.

Mike’s Book Report: I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Mike’s Book Report: I’m Thinking of Ending Things

★★★★ out of ★★★★★ It’s been known throughout the human experience that the journey is far more rewarding than the end point. For mountain climbers the peak is only the halfway point. Few endeavors have one introspectively looking solely at the terminus. For horror fans the end often isn’t entirely satisfying and the nostalgia for a film (or book) lies in the way the spooks and chills unfold along the way. Ian Reid’s 2016 novel, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, is the pure embodiment of this sentiment.