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Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Joining them are Theodora, an artistic 'sensitive', and Luke, heir to the house. But what begins as a light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a trip into their darkest nightmares, and an … Continue reading Review: ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ Shirley Jackson
Well, we're one month into 2021 and the year's pretty much just 2020 Part 2 so far. I'm not going to dwell on the negatives in this post, though. I mean, some good things happened in January. Trump finally left office, the first dose of the Covid vaccine was given to more than 10 million … Continue reading January in books
On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with relief lighthouse men and fresh provisions. Staffed by three keepers, the lighthouse had been in operation for a year, but it had been noted that no light had been seen from Eilean Mor for ten days. Upon arrival, … Continue reading Review: ‘The Lighthouse’ Keith McCloskey
Whether it's fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he's not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses - both legitimate and illegitimate. While their criminal activity is simply a rumour yet to be proven, no one knows the real truth. The Ferraros are a family of shadow … Continue reading Review/Rant: ‘Shadow Rider’ Christine Feehan
New year, new books. A lot of readers set themselves some sort of goal when January arrives, be it reading a certain amount of books by 31st December, or pushing themselves out of their literary comfort zones and delving into unfamiliar genres. I have a couple of general readerly goals for 2021; I want to … Continue reading My 2021 Reading Goals
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of … Continue reading Review: ‘Monster, She Wrote’ Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
"In thousands of years of my astral travels, I’d never needed a companion. But he found a way to ingrain himself in my every brain cell, my every goosebump, my every trembling breath… His darkness is the answer to my light." Orobella is a cosmic wanderer, living borrowed lives in borrowed bodies. Her mission on … Continue reading Review: ‘Incandescence’ Elena Leman
Hello, and welcome to I swoon over fictional men's brand new feature, Troublesome Tropes. In each instalment of this feature, I will be discussing annoying tropes that pop up again and again across a variety of different genres. I'm by no means an expert on all genres, so I may well recruit fellow bloggers to … Continue reading Troublesome Tropes #1 – Paranormal Romance
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Anyone can take part and all you need to do is answer the following three Ws: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Darkness Dawns, Dianne Duvall Someone mentioned Dianne Duvall in another … Continue reading WWW Wednesday – 16th September 2020
A frozen girlA haunted townA deadly challengeSix StoriesWhich one is true? In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old Vlogger, Elizabeth Barton, had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', … Continue reading Review: ‘Beast’ Matt Wesolowski
