The Willows by Algernon Blackwood This is technically more of a short story than a novel, but someone had mentioned it was the inspiration for The Hollow Places, which is a book I adored, so I thought I’d check it out. Actually, the critique of The Hollow Places asserted that T. Kingfisher hadn’t just used …
Tag: horror
Mar 26
Book Review: The Fisherman
The Fisherman by John Langan I wanted a book that scratched the same itch as T. Kingfisher’s horror, and this one did the trick. It’s very firmly ensconced in the real world, and yet the supernatural elements seemed plausible. One of the ways in which Langan brings the reader into the supernatural elements is through …
Apr 05
Book Review
All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black This book promised all the things my ghoulish little heart desires: dead bodies + science. I was hoping I’d learn more forensic details that I might use when crafting murder mysteries. But it’s not really a how-to for writers, or even specifically about forensic anatomy. …
Nov 15
Book Review: What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher is one of my go-to authors these days, so I snapped this one up even though it’s much shorter than her other works. The other reviewers said it’s a retelling of the Poe story “the Fall of the House of Usher,” a work I had not read. I read the spark notes for …