In which I attempt to hold all my Neil Gaiman books, mostly unsuccessfully, and ramble on about how hard it is to pick a favourite author, let alone book. Although if I had to choose one – yes, it’d be him. Although don’t ask me to narrow it down to a single book. Please. Good Omens…
book chat
Nine Parts Bluster – A.Z. Anthony Short Stories
In which I finally get around to talking about Nine Parts Bluster and Other Stories by A.Z. Anthony, which is a very good collection of four not-very-short horror-ish stories which I read, enjoyed, and lost in the depths of my Kindle. And now I’ve remembered them, I need to go see what else he’s got…
Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
In which I discuss – okay, ramble – about Shirley Jackson’s perfectly unsettling Gothic suspense novel, which features the most unreliable of narrators, way before that was the cool thing to do. I think most of us who’ve done some reading and/or writing in the horror genre will have come across The Lottery and The…
Colin Watson: Coffin, Scarcely Used – a traditional mystery
In which I thoroughly enjoy a very traditional mystery by Colin Watson, and only work out after I finish that it was written when my dad was still in his teens. I mean, yes, I realised it was set then, and the language was old-fashioned, but that’s kind of fashionable in some of the modern books…
Jacqueline Rohrbach – The False Moon & Good Puns
In which I admit to finding a shifter fantasy with romantic elements actually really, really enjoyable (because it’s not normally my sort of thing at all), and delight in the discovery of some very unconventional vampires. The False Moon is the second book in Jacqueline Rohrbach’s Immutable Moon series, and it’s entirely as enjoyable as the…
