Tag: horror
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Book Review #28: The Shining by Stephen King
Having read an ungodly amount of Stephen King novels, it seems odd that I should only now be reading The Shining. I think what’s kept me away from it this long is that I’ve seen the movie countless times, and it’s a very good movie. For me, it’s always more difficult to watch the movie…
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Book Review #27: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Love, Actually of dark mystery novels. Gillian Flynn’s debut novel, Dark Objects, follows protagonist Libby Day as she tries to find her family’s murderer. During the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (which I discussed with extreme incredulity in my Unmask Alice post), Libby’s mother and two sisters are murdered in their farmhouse in the…
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Book Review #26: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I want to begin this review by saying that it will be extremely spoiler heavy. This book came out OVER a decade ago (2012), and the movie came out NEARLY a decade ago (2016). If you’ve managed to avoid the spoilers and big reveals so far, I’m assuming it’s because you really don’t care about…
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Scary Books I’m Reading for October
I am one of the many people who looks forward to the month of October every year. I don’t know if any other part of the year has such a stark transition. One month, it’s summer time with weekends at the beach, and the next month people are drinking hot pumpkin spice lattes and wearing…
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Book Review #20: Misery by Stephen King
What. A. Ride. Before I delve into this review, I feel I should mention that I am a big Stephen King fan, so I’m generally biased when it comes to his novels. There are some that I have felt just weren’t for me, but for the most part I know that when I pick up…
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Book Review #19: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
It’s been a while. Some time ago I wrote a post about how to motivate yourself to write when you really don’t want to. As you can tell by my months-long absence, I did not take my own advice. I would like to add a quick tip, though: Another great way to make yourself write…
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Book Review #16: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
A sci-fi/horror novel with mermaids as the main antagonist? Count me in. The novel, Into the Drowning Deep, follows the main protagonist, Tory, as she searches for answers about the Atargatis ship attack and her sister’s subsequent death. After the Atargatis is found floating above the Mariana Trench with no one left aboard, a video…
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Book Review #15: The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
To start, I wish this book was rated as poorly on Goodreads as the movie was on Rotten Tomatoes. It would have saved me some time. The Woman in the Window is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from severe agoraphobia. The protagonist, Dr. Anna Fox, is a child psychologist who has been stuck…
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Book Review #11: The Stand by Stephen King
As promised, my book review of The Stand is here! Right off the bat, I will say I genuinely enjoyed reading this book. Though it took me an incredibly long time (I did move my entire house during this time, to be fair), and there were a few hiccups along the way with the book…
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Book Review #10: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
I’m going to put a PSA here to enjoy this book review because it will be the last one for a few weeks, at least. I’m currently reading The Stand by Stephen King, the 1200 page version that was released in the 90s, and it’s going to take me a while. I love Stephen King,…