Horror
Stories that make me afraid and anxious.
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SPOILERS! Volume 8 is my favorite book from this latest SIKTC binge (Volumes 6-8). It’s a satisfying digestif after consuming so much violence and drama in the two prior books. It starts out in familiar territory (but with a twist). It starts with the rare occurrence of a monster created from the fears of a…
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SPOILERS! I have to admit that I’m a little frightened by my attraction to the psychotic Charlotte Cutter. We’re given a glimpse inside her head in Volume 7 as she freaks out over her totem being taken. She’s very much a hot blonde Golem with a slicked back bob and a British accent. She needs…
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SPOILERS! It’s been three years since I last read James Tynion IV’s Something is Killing the Children. It’s a testament to his storytelling that, barring the occasional Google search, I was able to pick the series back up like I just finished Volume 5 last week. In Volume 6, Charlotte Cutter from the House of…
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I needed to be told the story to fully appreciate it. I wasn’t a fan of Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth when I first read it. The audiobook changed my mind. Its narrator, Suehyla El Attar gave Cassandra’s words a rhythm and an “oomph” that the voice in my head could not. Listening. I…
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I learned a new word: Tsundoku. It’s a portmanteau (another new word I learned) of the Japanese words tsunde-oku (to let things pile up) and dukosho (to read). Tsundoku is the act of buying books and letting them just pile up without reading them. According to Tanner Garrity, it’s supposed to be an expression of…
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SPOILERS! There may be spoilers in this post. Do not read further, if it concerns you. It is definitely my age that gives Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 a little more bite. A little more darkness. A little more sadness. And a little more humor. A friend once told me that Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf tells an…
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THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS POST. DON’T READ FURTHER IF IT MATTERS TO YOU. I finally binged Grotesquerie on Hulu. I had no idea of what the show was about before starting it. I was drawn in by the “gothy” color scheme and religious imaginary, deep reds and purple hues over Christian crosses hung over…
