Got the new Valancourt reprint of “In A Lonely Place” for my birthday. Pretty curious about this. I’ve read all KEW’s sword & sorcery Kane stories, but very few of his straight horror stories.
If it sounds like the kind of thing you might enjoy, you can get it as a paperback and ebook from most of the usual places. Links here! https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/writing/
It's Gemma Files' birthday and she is my favorite of my Unholy Trinity of Cosmic Horror Writers. (The other two are Langan & Barron, btw. I still have to check out Evenson, and Ligotti is great but a tad too depressing 😆)
Give her a birthday gift (and do yourself a huge favor) by picking up ANY of these fantastic, dark books that will linger in your mind and fester.
How gorgeous is this fiftieth anniversary edition of Carrie by the legendary Stephen King? Out now from Hodder & Stoughton, hardback with metallic leaf embossed cover, and foreword by Margaret Atwood
Happy Sunday. I hope everyone had a good weekend. This is one of my birthday presents 🎁 I love folk horror. Well I love most horror to be honest 🤪 especially anthologies. #horrorbooks@horror
Subterranean Press is having a fantastic sale right now, where you can get a bunch of Landsdale, and other terrific authors' books, at some really great prices. (They're on here but not really active @SubPress )
Rereading this classic 'cause I'm in the mood for some good horror.
"They won’t accept reasonable things with their minds but the fantastic things they’ll swallow whole when their emotions are brought into play. Because the emotions have no limits on belief."
―R. Matheson, A Stir of Echoes
So I'm listening to the zombie apocalypse audiobook and the survivors just found out one amongst them is a serial killer known as Billy the Butcher.
Some of the survivors are officers and recognize him and want to lock him up but one of the other cops doesn't want to because Billy, a grown man, has become friends with his 8 yrs old daughter and he feels Billy would do anything to protect her.
Currently listening to the below and I'm wondering have we reached the end of zombies. Can there be anything new or are we just recirculating the same group dynamics in different places?
David Moody's Autumn series was different in the first book because of the way the bodies changed. It lended some eeriness that people walked around, feeling like rapture had happened for several days, then slowly, zombie automation started.
Then The Last of Us with a fungi virus was different.
But have zombies reached the end? Is there anything new?
For those who remember his Necroscope series, the depths of darkness to which that man could write without losing the soul was astonishing.
Bob Eggleton drew many of the covers for his books, and as a team, they were phenomenal. So many times in my youth I selected a book primarily based on its cover. Bob's artwork is what drew me to Brian's writing.
Rest in peace and may the horrors in your head live on....