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Bram Stoker - the classic Gothic/horror novelist who invented the modern and pre-modern vampire. Count Dracula is one of those characters, along with the charismatic Abraham Van Helsing. Bram Stoker was an entrepreneur in the area of Gothic fiction, I mean, who doesn’t know who Dracula is? Most people think that Mr. Stoker is the first Gothic [...]
HG Wellsis known as one of the fathers of Science Fiction and in my opinion, some of his stories qualify as Sci Fi/Horror stories. War of the Worlds is undoubtedly a Science Fiction novel, but it’s also arguably a horror novel. There are horrible monsters (if aliens), lots of blood, disaster, death and violence. It’s just that [...]
At the Mystery and Imagination Bookshop there will be a “Wicked Literature” meeting at 7 PM on October 18th. If you live in Los Angeles, talk it up and check it out! At the very least you will get to check out one of the original genre bookstores in Los Angeles.
Is Ray Bradbury truly a “horror” author? I think he’s one of those authors you cannot pin down to any particular genre, except to say that what he writes is classic “genre” fiction (meaning anywhere from Sci Fi/Fantasy to Supernatural to Horror). Bradbury’s works from Fahrenheit 451 to the classic short story compilation The Illustrated Man all the way [...]
Author: Tana French Book: In The Woods Genre: Suspense/Thriller/Detective Julia Rating: 7 (for writing skill) Comments: Sorry, this book isn’t really horror. I thought it was, but it turned out to be a psychological thriller. In the Woods is a book that showed great promise in the beginning, throughout the middle and failed (in my [...]
Author: Charlaine Harris Book: Dead Until Dark Genre: Horror/Murder Mystery/Romance Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Dead Until Dark is a cute and funny vampire romance/mystery. I think it’s a little silly to call any vampire book “horror”, but from what I can tell, that’s how the bookstores classify it, so I put the mad combination up [...]
Harper Collins is having a contest to win a copy of Neil Gaiman’s latest masterpiece – The Graveyard Book. It’s a YA book about a boy who is raised in a graveyard by ghosts. I’ve decided to review it for Horror Month as well, since Mr. Gaiman is one of my favorite authors – it’s [...]
Author: Kathy Reichs Book: Devil Bones Genre: Murder Mystery/Thriller Julia Rating: 10 Comments: I screwed up on this one… it’s not horror at all! However, I recommend it if you like the TV series Bones, because it’s a Temperance Brennan novel (she’s the main character of the TV show). Temperance is a forensic anthropologist that [...]
Author: Scott Sigler Book: Infected: A Novel Genre: Horror/Sci Fi/Thriller Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Scott Sigler is one of those “new” authors who has actually been kicking around on independent channels for years. His newest book (the first he’s released with a major publisher) is Infected. This is the story of a terrible infection contracted [...]
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