Horror
Stories that make me afraid and anxious.
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SPOILERS! SPOILERS! I’m writing about the ending of the main story in CD Projeckt Red’s The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. If knowing how a story ends hampers you’re enjoyment of it, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER! Bookmark this post to read after you are done. Leave a comment to let me know whether you…
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There are several editions of these stories. I saw on Amazon more recent editions split the “Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse” and “Black Fairy Tale” stories into two separate books. The edition I read had both and a third story, “Yuna,” collected in a single volume. “Yuna” splits the book into the “Summer” side and…
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I needed something to take the weight of Arrival off my mind. Daryl Gregory’s Spoonbenders was a very effective and enjoyable salve. It’s Daryl’s clever observations about life and the poesy he wraps it in that makes Spoonbenders such potent medicine. When we are introduced to Teddy Telemachus, he is cruising for women in the…
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It was hard to read Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D: Dark Road Part 1 and 2 without scrambled images from the hero’s 1980s anime popping up in my head. Doris with the giant saucer-shaped, anime-eyes and ample cleavage, hunting dinosaurs at midnight in a little skirt and a laser rifle. Speaking quickly when she encounters…
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WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILERS! Otsuichi’s short story collection, Zoo, starts from the perspective of a killer and ends with the perspective of a survivor. Many of the English language Goodreads reviews of Zoo mention the effectiveness of Otsuichi’s bare-bones, minimalistic writing style and his knack of turning ordinary life matters like divorce and sibling rivalry into…
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Where ABC and Fox make you wait a week to see the latest episode (unless you have a cable subscription), The CW understands that it’s commercial TV (not subscription) and that its viewers can’t stop their worlds (no matter how much they want to) to sit and watch their favorite show or, as in my…
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WARNING! SPOILERS! Child of television. When I was told AJ Scudiere’s Under Dark Skies was a “supernatural crime thriller” and then read that it involved “the FBI’s secretive division, NightShade” I immediately thought X-Files. When it is revealed that some of the main characters in the book had supernatural abilities, Angel Investigations popped into my…
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Before I begin writing about the Sleepy Hollow panel I attended at this year’s New York Comic Con, I’d like everyone to know Orlando Jones is great with his fans. I didn’t stay after the panel but as I was walking out I heard a loud collective squeal and glanced back to see that Orlando…
Vincent Young 