Tag: Anne Rice

Ben Reads the Horror Classics: The Wine-Dark Damned Baby

I’m back again after a break for Thanksgiving and to give our annual gift guide some time to breathe! In this group of macabre offerings, I tackle a couple of great collections from a master of the horror short story, a pile of Goosebumps sequels, one of the all-time classic horror novels, a gothic novel…


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: Folklore in Blood

Welcome to another chapter in my on-going quest to read a ton of horror novels that are supposed to be good. In this entry, I’ve got a gory slice of teen lit terror, an imaginative collection of tales inspired by Caribbean folklore, a genre-defining vampire classic, an intense modern take on demon possession and a…