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Cat Rambo
Amigurumi Knits: Patterns for 20 Cute Mini Knits
Hansi Singh
Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Southern Gods
John Hornor Jacobs
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
Robert Louis Stevenson, Orson Scott Card, Jack London, Tanith Lee, Walt Whitman, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Asimov, Ivan Turgenev, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Marvin Kaye, John Dickson Carr, Bram Stoker, Tennessee Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Matheson, Johann Wolfgang
Howdunit Forensics
Garnethill
Denise Mina
The Autopsy and Other Tales
Michael Shea, Laird Barron
Alice Hearts Welsh Zombies
Victoria Dunn
Blood & Water
Hayden Trenholm, Camille Alexa, Claude Lalumière, Derryl Murphy, M.L.D. Curelas, Kevin Cockle, Douglas Smith, Jean-Louis Trudel, Julie E. Czerneda
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Cat Rambo
Dmitry Glukhovsky
John Hornor Jacobs
Robert Louis Stevenson, Orson Scott Card, Jack London, Tanith Lee, Walt Whitman, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Asimov, Ivan Turgenev, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Marvin Kaye, John Dickson Carr, Bram Stoker, Tennessee Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Matheson, Johann Wolfgang
Denise Mina
Michael Shea, Laird Barron
Hayden Trenholm, Camille Alexa, Claude Lalumière, Derryl Murphy, M.L.D. Curelas, Kevin Cockle, Douglas Smith, Jean-Louis Trudel, Julie E. Czerneda
November 2013
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November 2013
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October 2013
24
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(Note the first: this is in response to a discussion group, hence the heavy discussion of Maggie Krusemark.)(Note the second:...
Falling Angel: A Novel - William Hjortsberg
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October 2013
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October 2013
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Decent thriller, though the switching out perspectives during the near-climactic fight felt like a bit of a cheat and threw m...
The Murder Exchange - Simon Kernick
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October 2013
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October 2013
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September 2013
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(I understand I should mention I got my copy as a gift. And it came with a little rubber kidney. A kidne, people. You try exp...
Tales of Jack the Ripper - Laird Barron;Joe R. Lansdale
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September 2013
06
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I'm waffling between three and four stars, because it made me cringe a couple of times when it was meant to make me cringe, b...
Killshot - Elmore Leonard
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September 2013
04
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On the good side: solid plot, smooth interweaving of the now and then, some really beautiful description, and lovely characte...
The Blackhouse - Peter May
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August 2013
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August 2013
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Honestly, the overwhelming desire to shake the protagonist until his teeth fell out and he stopped being such a selfish whitt...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
August 2013
15
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I think Simon Logan may be one of the few people whose novels I like better than his short stories. A very quick read, cinem...
Katja from the Punk Band - Simon Logan
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August 2013
14
reviewed: Close to the Bone (Logan McRae)
Solid McRae, but it felt a little more scattered than usual. Mind, I have had a very long week, so that might have simply bee...
Close to the Bone - Stuart MacBride
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August 2013
10
reviewed: The Best British Mysteries 2006
This was an odd one; a few of the stories I'd call straight up horror before anything else, and several of them were definite...
The Best British Mysteries 2006 - Maxim Jakubowski
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August 2013
07
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As usual, four stars is my "recommend to anyone who'd like the genre" marker, but I'm not sure what the genre is. Dark and lo...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter
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August 2013
06
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This is the story of a boy whose mother is sick, and the monster that comes to call.It is a sad book, and a true one (in that...
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
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July 2013
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I keep trying to come up for a better adjective for this story than raw, and I can't do it. (The book's not unpolished; that...
Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig
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July 2013
08
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Odd story; for me, four stars means anyone who's interested in this kind of thing should read it, but in this case I'm not su...
Joyland - Stephen King
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July 2013
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July 2013
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July 2013
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reviewed: Ghost I Have Met and Some Others
A bit overarch sometimes, and a bit stiff, but largely lightly funny and occasionally pleasantly creepy. I think I might loo...
Ghost I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
reviewed: The Innsmouth Syndrome
Pleasant read. Found the writing a tiny bit choppy in some spots, but otherwise solid; a reasonable update of what Innsmouth...
The Innsmouth Syndrome - Philip Hemplow
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