Ghostman Author: Roger Hobbs Publisher: Knopf Publication Date: February 12, 2013 Format: eBook (also available in Hardcover, Paperback, and Audio) Source: Local Library 327 Pages Book Description(from Goodreads) Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the […]
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Pretty Little Dead Girls by Mercedes M. Yardley
“Run, Star Girl.” BRYONY ADAMS IS DESTINED TO BE MURDERED, but fortunately Fate has terrible marksmanship. In order to survive, she must run as far and as fast as she can. After arriving in Seattle, Bryony befriends a tortured musician, a market fish-thrower, and a starry-eyed hero who is secretly a serial killer bent on […]
Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
Swords and Deviltry, the first book of Leiber’s landmark series, introduces us to a strange world where our two strangers find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic. Three master-magician femme-fatales and a sprightly lad illuminate the bonds between father and son, the relationship between the bravado of the […]
Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
When I change, I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth, and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through a blind chicane into ludicrous power . . . A heel settles. A last canine hurries through. A shoulder blade […]
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The tale of a youth whose features, year after year, retain the same appearance of innocent beauty while the shame of his abhorrent vices becomes mirrored on the features of his portrait. (Summary from Goodreads) I have been wanting to expand my reading of the classics and I thought I would start with The Picture […]
The Crow by James O’Barr
Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who killed him and raped and then killed his beloved Shelly. (summary from Goodreads) I received The Crow as a Christmas gift in 1994 after falling in love with the movie earlier that year. This is […]
Dark Hollow by Brian Keene
Book Synopsis Something very strange is happening in LeHorn’s Hollow… Eerie, piping music is heard late at night, and mysterious fires have been spotted deep in the woods. Women are vanishing without a trace overnight, leaving behind husbands and families. When up-and-coming novelist Adam Senft stumbles upon an unearthly scene, it plunges him and […]
