The Signalman has seen it all. He’s been around for a long time. How long? As the reader, we’re not really sure. But he’s been around long enough that most things don’t faze him anymore. However, when he’s called to investigate the hovel where a cult has been dwelling, what he finds there will shake…
The Ballad of Black Tom
I have been a fan of H.P. Lovecraft for quite some time, and have struggled with his racist views for as long as I’ve been reading his work. That being said, I was excited to read LaValle’s re-telling of The Horror at Red Hook. Unfortunately, I found The Ballad of Black Tom to be mediocre and disappointing. My…
Revan
When I was a younger lad, I spent dozens of hours playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I had a serious problem back then, and I created more characters than was healthy, and I never actually finished the game. In fact, I never got around to completing it until a few years ago. I…
Those Across the River
When Frank and his wife-to-be Eudora move to Georgia, they soon learn that the sleepy little town of Whitbrow is more than it seems. There is a secret in the woods across the river, and it has more to do with Frank’s ancestors and their brutal history than he wants to admit. Horror requires complex…
The Twisted Ones
When a young woman nicknamed ‘Mouse’ is tasked to clean out the house of her dead grandmother, she finds that the deceased old lady had been a hoarder. After coming across some strange stones in the woods, and the crazy ramblings of her also deceased step-grandfather, Mouse discovers that her problems are much more serious…
Hell House
I have said it many times before and I swear that I’ve meant it every time, but this time I know with a certainty that Hell House is absolutely the worst book I have ever read in my entire life. Proclaimed as a horror story about a haunted house and a group of people that deal with the specters…
Heart-Shaped Box
Judas Coyne is a world-famous rock star, and has spent his life picking up women and discarding them whenever he grew bored. Or whenever their psychological problems became too much for him, in his self-centered world, to deal with. After one of his girlfriends commits suicide, Jude discovers that the ghost he purchased online in…
Cloud of Sparrows
The year is 1861, and Japan has been opened to the West for the first time in two centuries. Foreigners bringing Christianity and Western ideologies threaten the culture and very identity of Japan, and the Great Lords fight against one another and against the Shogun. A country steeped in tradition is changing rapidly, and those…
Dragons of Spring Dawning
With the events of the war coming to a head and a confrontation between the forces of good and evil inevitable, Dragons of Spring Dawning begins with the companions still separated and contributing their own efforts to the struggle. By the end, they’ll be reunited and the conflict will be resolved one way or another, for good…
The Devil All the Time
The aptly named The Devil All the Time is a brutal look at poverty, depravity, and faith. Packed with a cast of horrible characters that do awful things, this story is unrelentingly bleak and grotesque. While the plot is interesting, and the way it is told even more-so, one has to wonder if Pollock’s depiction of rural…
The Call of Cthulhu
The fear of the unknown is the greatest fear that mankind possesses, and I believe that it was H.P. Lovecraft himself that said something to that extent. There is something horrific about a thing being so alien, so indescribable, that it drives a person to complete madness and inevitable death. That is the premise of The Call…
The Shining
Coming off the high of reading ‘Salem’s Lot, I was very excited to read The Shining. Being one of King’s most talked-about and notable works, I expected to love it just as much as his previous book. Unfortunately, that just isn’t the case. I honestly don’t understand why so many people love this novel and think it’s…
Quite Literary 