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Old 04-06-2012, 09:53 PM   #201
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starrykitten, Darkness bored me. It was 90% the same stuff he'd done before. I like Keene, and was not prepared to be disappointed.
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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.
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Old 04-12-2012, 05:26 PM   #203
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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
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Old 04-13-2012, 01:48 AM   #204
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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...
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Good icky bug is a monster that eats half the characters, they say f***k a lot, and there is gratuitous sex that has nothing to do with the plot! LOL.
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Old 04-26-2012, 06:14 PM   #205
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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.
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Old 05-01-2012, 10:33 PM   #206
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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.
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Old 05-04-2012, 10:19 PM   #207
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I've been reading Peter Straub's "Ghost Story", which is excellent, and am contemplating starting "Darkest Day" by Christopher Fowler.

I've also got "Neuromancer" by William Gibson on hold at the library, but that's not actually horror. I've heard it's good, though.
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Old 05-07-2012, 04:46 AM   #208
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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.
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Old 05-07-2012, 10:49 PM   #209
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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.
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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.
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Old 06-05-2012, 04:55 AM   #211
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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.
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Old 06-05-2012, 07:29 PM   #212
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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.
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Old 06-15-2012, 12:59 AM   #214
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Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon. Not quite as good as The Stand, but not bad.
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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).
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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
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Not horror, but A Song Of Ice And Fire by GRRM because I've genuinely liked the HBO series thus far (Season 1).

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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'
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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!
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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!
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