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The Staircase in the Woods

Catherine — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:13:53 +0000

I’m not a huge horror fan, but I am easily influenced by a book’s cover and that was all it took to lead me into Chuck Wendig’s novel A Staircase in the Woods. Who could resist a cover like this? Or this premise: Five high school friends partying in the woods discover a staircase in […]

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Victorian Psycho

Catherine — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:03:12 +0000

Apparently, this is Victorian era week at the blog. On Monday it was a novel about Oscar Wilde’s family. Today I’m going with a female serial killer. I’m not sure which is more disturbing, the novel, Victorian Psycho, or the fact that I read it in an afternoon and delighted in its gruesome darkness. Written […]

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Bringer of Dust by J.M. Miro

Catherine — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:50:38 +0000

When J.M. Miro’s historical fantasy Ordinary Monsters ended a small band of children gifted with different magical capabilities was under assault as the divide between the world of the living and the dead was being breached by an evil seeking to grow its power. Now, Charlie, Marlowe, Ribs, Oskar, and Komako are back in the […]

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The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Catherine — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:26:56 +0000

Siblings Gloria and Robert live on their own in a small Florida town after their father was run out of town for trying to get the local mill workers to unionize. Their position is precarious because it’s the 1950s and Jim Crow, the KKK, and racism are still strong in Florida. So, when 12-year-old Robert […]

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Holly by Stephen King

Catherine — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:53:31 +0000

I know many people have moved towards cozy holiday reading in the last month, but my reading has remained varied and a little bit dark. So, I have a compromise today: a book with a Christmas-y title, but written by the master of suspense and horror. It’s Stephen King’s Holly and while it won’t warm […]

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November Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:12:40 +0000

It’s odd to say, but for the most part November felt like a normal month. So, either I’m acclimating to chaos or my memory has blanked out the month. What I do know is that it was a Wild West rodeo for my reading. There was the fun of getting to read whatever I […]

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Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Catherine — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:03:35 +0000

The writer’s imagination never ceases to amaze me. How even the smallest bit of news can catch their eye and be alchemized into stories far beyond the wildest imaginings of the rest of us. For Daniel Kraus, it was a small newspaper article about a diver who’d been caught in the mouth of a whale […]

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The Angel Maker by Alex North

Catherine — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:09:39 +0000

Anyone else dealing with blah reading recently? I don’t know whether it’s the joy (not!) of dealing with tax prep, but I’ve DNFed two of the last 3 books I started. So, I thought it necessary to wrap up the week with the one book I could not turn away from. If you need reading […]

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Into the Drowning Deep

Catherine — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 05:06:14 +0000

I’ve officially reached the point in the year that my reading is what I call free range. I still have two books left to read that release in 2021, but by-and-large I’m reading whatever catches my eye at the library or catching up on older books that have been recommended to me by readers I […]

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Mexican Gothic: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 04:15:43 +0000

Sometimes it requires a bit of effort to tease out a book’s theme or premise based on the title. That’s not the case in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s debut novel, Mexican Gothic. It is exactly that, a noir horror novel set in 1950s Mexico. Noemi is the pampered daughter of a wealthy family whose her father asks […]

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