Also, isn't 'The Library at Mount Char' one of the most amazing books ever?
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CliftonR@wandering.shop 1 week ago
Based on your list, a few I'd suggest are:
Nathan Ballingrud, Wounds [Six Stories from the Borders of Hell]
(same book is also available as Monsterland because some of them were TVfied on Hulu)
Paul Tremblay, Head Full of Ghosts
Sarah Monette, A Theory of Hauntings (rather M.R. James like in its sense of brooding dread)
- CliftonR@wandering.shop 1 week ago
kimlockhartga@beige.party 1 week ago @CliftonR @bookstodon HELLO! yes.
@CliftonR @bookstodon Should I start with The Bone Key, in the Kyle Murchison Booth series?
Got Wounds on my TBR already.
I've sort of convinced myself I may not be a Paul Tremblay girl, but I'm willing to keep an open mind. 😃
@kimlockhartga @bookstodon
I actually haven't read any Paul Tremblay apart from 'Headful of Ghosts' and a short story or two, so I don't know how his other work compares with it.
That book, though - it just yanked the rug out from under me a number of times. It's very much not a conventional kind of horror story, probably one reason it won the Stoker award.
I have 'Cabin at the End of the World' on my TBR, and I'm curious about that one.
@kimlockhartga @bookstodon
All of the Kyle Booth stories are very good, but IMO they're very much written as stand-alones.
I had read the earlier stories but I didn't need them to understand anything in the latest one; I picked that because it's a bit longer, works well as a standalone, and also I just think it's one of the best - it slowly gets creepier and creepier.
@CliftonR @bookstodon oh cool. Thank you. I kinda like the idea of a series that you can read as standalones.