As the chill of winter gives way to warm and inviting showers of early spring, we arrive at another installment of this seemingly endless quest to consume as much horror fiction as possible. This time, we have the dark fantasies of one of the kings of weird fiction, a “true” story of horrifying alien abduction,…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Keep Broken Mirrors and Falling Medusas
Welcome, welcome. And a merry, merry unbirthday to you, folks! I read some more horror books, so naturally it’s time to dig in. In this one we have a dark and satanic thriller masquerading as a classic detective noir, we’ve got a weird serial killer story with a beyond strange twist, we have Nazis being…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Alone with the Obscure and Empty Revenge Touches
I’m back y’all with another round of book write-ups on this kooky journey I’ve set out on. It’s been a fun one too. What I’ve determined after reading over a hundred of these books so far is that guess what? I LIKE HORROR FICTION, FOLKS! This is why it delights me to bring you another…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Shutter and Look Up Some of Your Elemental Bone Blood
In this batch o’ books, we have a couple of really great ones and the rest aren’t too shabby either. Thrill as cult writer Michael McDowell basks in the warm Alabama summer while bringing on the slow burn terror! Watch a Van Helsing with a camera take down some mean spirits! Feel the anguish of…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: A Sight for Dark Nests of Black Tom Tales
In this enticing installment of this seemingly neverending series I’ve gotten myself into we have a delightful back o’ books. First a deliciously dark psychological thriller in the guise of a love story from noted mystery author Ruth Rendell, then we settle in for a cold night out with Dark Matter before diving into a…
Ben Reads The Horror Classics: Lovecraft, His Spawn and Dark Fantasy Joyrides
This one’s got a big mammajamma entry in it. That’s right… I consumed the COMPLETE LOVECRAFT FICTION. Check it out below. Also in this batch is a collection of stories influenced by Lovecraft, a pair of horror tinged dark fantasies and the first in what I’m afraid will be many interludes of Goosebumps micro-reviews. For…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: The Troop Sounds the Witching Horn
Welcome back for another enticing sandwich of fiber and justice! In this installment of the wildly popular and generations-defining feature Me Reads Horror Bookz, we have a boy scout trip gone horribly wrong, a strange tale of a Nazi-fueled alternate future with cat women, a massive omnibus of mostly classic ghost stories, a beautifully illustrated…
Ben Reads The Horror Classics: Ghostly Cellars and Vampiric Crones
When I first started this whole journey through a big ass list of horror books and started mentioning it to people, I inevitably received the response: “How can you read that much horror? Don’t you think you’ll get sick of it?” To that I say, of course not, silly goose! Sure if I stuck just…
Ben Reads The Horror Classics: Exquisite Hallucinations and Parasitic Bird Boxes
What’s the state of modern horror fiction? Is it still thriving or dying on the vine? Well, compared to the boom of the ’70s and the ’80s, it certainly isn’t as prevalent as it was back then. But in some ways, horror fiction is as strong as it ever was, and I’m not talking about…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: The Smell of the End of the World
As Grady Hendrix and Will Erickson have spoken/written of at length in Paperbacks from Hell and elsewhere, the ’80s were a boom period for horror fiction where writers like Stephen King and Dean Koontz were treated like superstars, regularly appearing on the New York Times bestseller list. But as Paperbacks from Hell pointed out, there…