I'm going to die next to a pile of books I was definitely going to read. Moved to bookwyrm.social/user/frenchcookie49
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A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times …
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
I'll finish this... someday... probably...
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction is a 2017 …
Fascinating Deep dive into a genre I was not familiar with! Made my "to read" stack even bigger.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with …
Content warning The plot and some TW for the scares.
Soooo I read most of Grady Hendrix's book in 7 days. This was the one that started it. I really liked the idea, of a bunch of WASPs going head to head with a vampire. It seemed it cute, and I already liked one of Grady's previous works, Horrorstor.
And this book over delivered on all of my expectations! I liked the main character, Patricia, a housewife who was a nurse in a previous life and her struggles to keep the house clean, get the kids to school, make dinner, and try have a social life in the 90s in Charleston, same place as one of Grady's other works "My Best Friend's Exorcism." She and her other white, christian, middle-class gal pals start a book club centering around true crime.
I myself am not a not a true crime person, but the way it pays off when shenanigans begin to occur, it is brilliant. Additionally I am not christian, middle-class 'gal' but I could not help by sympathize with Patricia as she deals with her old-age and mental health ridden mother in law, who is absolutely confident she knows Patrica's new mysterious and (very sexy) neighbor...
Obviously this is not a flawless horror story. Some of the topics - racism, classism, mental health and so on are not handled well. The mother in law's personal nurse Mrs Green falls well into the "black mysticism" cliche and while it's "fitting" that Patrica and her pals don't think much of the black population the two pronged attack feels bad, man. Especially since a lot of it is already pretty scary!
If you hate bugs, good luck with the attic scene. Listen I'm not squeamish but that was pushing it. There's also the scary way that the vampire takes the blood from his victims and what he does it one of Patricia's friends... There's some real atmosphere. (And dang the way the cover image ties in with the story.)
A solid horror read! I'll probably read it again.
Probably My favorite of Grady's work so far.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman …
"An ancient evil roams the blasted, nightmare country, an evil as old as time. He is the Man with the …
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman …
In this novel, "Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction …
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, …
I sucked this book down with an extra large boba smoothie straw. So glad I finally read a book about one of English literatures earliest monsters. And monster he is! This is not really a book about how Grendel was misunderstood really. This is about a monster looking desperately looking for meaning in a world that was probably not made by God. I love him.
John Gardner: Grendel (1989, Vintage)
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of …
