What Are You Reading?

Calla Lily · Apr 6, 2012

starrykitten, Darkness bored me. It was 90% the same stuff he'd done before. I like Keene, and was not prepared to be disappointed.

Jonathan Janz · Apr 11, 2012

I've only read two Keene books--Dark Hollow and The Rising--and I loved them both. He's one of my new favorite writers, though to most horror fans he's a staple of the genre.

I'm really looking forward to reading Ghoul and City of the Dead.

quicklime · Apr 12, 2012

Bad Men by John Connolly looks to be flirting with horror, and it is on my short list, along with Dorian Gray, The Strain, and Dracula.......but I think Less than Zero may be my next book, instead of one of the horror titles. Last horror I read was Frankenstein, NOT the Koontz one

Feidb · Apr 12, 2012

I'm actually reading horror, finally. The Haunted by Bentley Little. So far, I like it. I don't care if it is supposed to be standard, or nothing new, it still seems vintage Bentley. At least, so far. The shit hasn't really hit the fan yet though...

Feidb · Apr 26, 2012

Scott Sigler's Nocturnal. Our styles (when it comes to icky bug) are very similar. Humorous, profane, high body count. This is his first hardback, as far as I know, and it rocks, so far.

quicklime · May 1, 2012

Strain.....just finished The Cormorant, which was very creepy......more gothic, subtle horror, but a horriffic ending.

Strain is ok, but you get the sense it is largely being written by Hogan, a thriller guy writing horror--this isn't bad, just way more asides for details, like how one cuts a plane to get in, than in something like King's books, which I'm more used to.

Umbrageofsnow · May 6, 2012

I just finished Ellen Datlow's Supernatural Noir anthology, now I'm starting on Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs.

Really liking Southern Gods so far, but Supernatural Noir, while not having any bad stories, had a few too many mediocre ones. The best stories were the shortest, and were pretty amazing: "The Absent Eye" by Brian Evenson and "The Getaway" by Paul G. Tremblay.

Rhoda Nightingale · May 7, 2012

Now reading Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture--about a haunted oil painting. The plot structure is very simple, but her prose and imagery are elegant.

Tinman · Jun 4, 2012

Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim. I had never heard of Richard Kadrey until I saw this book in the library. It was a good book. I give it 4 stars out of 5. It reminded me of Constantine the movie.

Calla Lily · Jun 4, 2012

Rereading The Collected Ghost Stories of MR James. They're hit-and-miss, as far as giving me the creeps goes, but every so often... meep.

Rhoda Nightingale · Jun 5, 2012

About halfway through Mira Grant's Blackout--the final book in the Newsflesh trilogy. So far, still awesome. Zombies are creepy, human cloning is creepier. AND she's just sold film rights to the first book, which RULES.

Tinkerbelll · Jun 9, 2012

Dracula

Griffin Hayes · Jun 14, 2012

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon. Not quite as good as The Stand, but not bad.

FOTSGreg · Jun 14, 2012

Finished up Charles Stross' Overtime, SeaQ, A Colder War, The Jennifer Morgue, and The Fuller Memorandum over the last couple of weeks. Currently reading The Essential H.P. Lovecraft, The Punic Wars, and a zombie novel No Easy Hope (part of the Surviving The Dead series).

bluntforcetrauma · Jun 14, 2012

Much Ado About Nothing

LeakyLibido · Jun 14, 2012

Squid Pulp Blues by Jordan Krall

Shadow_Ferret · Jun 15, 2012

I'm reading the just released e-anthology "No Rest For the Wicked."

Tinkerbelll said:
Dracula

I really enjoyed Stoker's writing style. I just read that about a year or so ago. Maybe I'll read it again. My only problem was when he wrote in dialect and slang for I think it was a Scotsman and for some salty sailors, I couldn't make heads or takes out of it and ended up skipping pages worth of that stuff.

druid12000 · Aug 20, 2012

I'm on the third book of Clive Barker's Abarat series. I absolutely adore his earlier novels, he creeps me out. Abarat started out as like teen horror in the first two books, a far cry from what I normally expect from him, but this third book is very dark and puts more of his creepy persona into it. So far so good

FOTSGreg · Aug 21, 2012

Not horror, but A Song Of Ice And Fire by GRRM because I've genuinely liked the HBO series thus far (Season 1).

Ben Bova's The Star Conquerors (again)

A couple old Ted Sturgeon books

Blarg · Aug 21, 2012

The Heretics, by Greg Gifune
Sides, by Peter Straub

Re-reading Rock Your Plot and putting its ideas and exercises into a Scrivener template.

Niccolo · Aug 21, 2012

A Game of Thrones, and Dracula. A modern classic and a classic classic

phineas12gauge · Aug 22, 2012

I've decided to read every Richard Laymon book by order of release ... yee haw!

I've finished 'The Cellar' and 'THE WOODS ARE DARK' , now working on 'OUT ARE THE LIGHTS'

soapdish · Aug 28, 2012

I'm *rereading* (for the...umteenth time) Danse Macabre by Stephen King.

Only, this time I thought I'd check out the audio version so that I could, you know, multitask while I read/listen. Turns out that there is a whole new (modern) intro than what was in my old original edition. Which makes it all the more cooler!

Blarg · Aug 29, 2012

soapdish said:
I'm *rereading* (for the...umteenth time) Danse Macabre by Stephen King.

Only, this time I thought I'd check out the audio version so that I could, you know, multitask while I read/listen. Turns out that there is a whole new (modern) intro than what was in my old original edition. Which makes it all the more cooler!

That's interesting. What does the new intro cover? And how long/worthwhile is it?

troyrutter · Aug 29, 2012

I recently started reading the book Mirror by Graham Masterton again. I read it years and years ago, and it made me want to read all of his other novels, and most were fantastic. It's nice to revisit something that sparked your interest "way back when."

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