According to the Acknowledgements, author Elizabeth Hand was approached by Shirley Jackson’s estate and asked to write a novel that revisited Hill House. After reading A Haunting on the Hill, I have the urge to go back and re-read the source material. It’s been years since I read the original, but I’m sure the local library has a copy. In… Read more

I went to a lot of trouble to get this book. It showed up on my Kindle Daily Deals page for $3.99, but clicking on the link only showed it at full price. I spent way too long chatting with customer service and I ended up having to buy it at full price and then Amazon refunded me the difference.… Read more

Thirty years ago, a group of young filmmakers made a guerilla-style, low budget horror movie. The plot was simple: three teenagers take a fourth friend to an abandoned school. They take his clothes, leave him locked in a storage room, they abuse him. They have a goal in mind that is slowly revealed as the movie progresses. The filming was… Read more

I was waiting at the doctor’s office and this was the only thing I had downloaded, otherwise I never would have finished it. It’s just, well, kind of dumb – ridiculous thing after ridiculous thing. You can’t even really say there is a plot because everything that happens is so outlandish that anything could happen, so there is nothing to… Read more

The final installment (at least so far) in the Avery & Carter series is The Heart of the Mummy. Lucas Avery and Sam Carter find themselves working together again to stop the murderous rampage of an ancient Egyptian mummy. Professor Charles Cavendish, is an archaeologist and expert in ancient Egyptian culture. He embarks on an expedition to uncover a hidden… Read more

Okay, on to book two in the series, Werewolf on the Western Front. It’s 1916 and the height of World War II. Sam Carter and Lucas Avery are back – Sam serving with the Americans after sorting out his problems with the French Foreign Legion, and Lucas with British Intelligence. They find themselves at Kilometre Zero, near the Swiss border,… Read more

Nick Cutter’s The Deep starts out with a very promising premise: a strange plague is afflicting humanity on a global scale. Scientists have stumbled upon a possible cure — at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. In a desperate race to save the human race, governments have come together to build a research station at the bottom of the ocean, eight miles underwater. The… Read more

This one is from my personal library, recommended by someone on my Bookapalooza thread, and let me tell you: Starers by Nathan Robinson is one seriously creepy book! A little horror, a little family drama, maybe a little religion – and a lot of creepy suspense. This was a great one-sitting read. Dylan Keene is heading home from a night at… Read more