"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Thomas F. Monteleone We’ve got a treasure chest of words we use when exploring things monumental. We use simpler words like excellent, amazing, gripping and powerful. We use terms like ‘show-stopping’ and ‘a masterpiece.’ Popular culture, however, has brought us to a point where words such as these have become so recognizable that they’ve... Continue Reading →
by Lynd Ward An entirely wordless novel told through woodcuts alone, the book details a young artist traveling to a new city who gives his last coin to a beggar. He's unable to pay for his later meal and the proprietor is about to get nasty when the artist offers a drawing in lieu of... Continue Reading →
by Suzy McKee Charnas “Extraordinary, he thought: I provide their nightmares, and they provide mine.” Dr. Weyland, a successful and aloof professor at a small but respectable college, has been experimenting on students for his sleep program by studying their dreams when a female staff member is approached to join the study. Uneducated compared to... Continue Reading →
by William Beckford “The condition appointed to man is to be ignorant and humble.” Reputed as one of the first gothic horror novels ever written (1782, published in 1786), and possibly beaten only by The Castle of Otranto (1764), this is a kind of Arabian Nights journey into Hell. Vathek is the story of a... Continue Reading →
by John Farris “Reckon maybe there’s a law of physics would explain how that could happen. Or else it’s one of them black arts secrets that’ll stay secret until somebody figures out the answer.” Part horror, fantasy, mystery and thriller, Wildwood is the story of a father and son traveling to a remote section of... Continue Reading →
by Robert Marasco An unlikely pairing of smoldering dread and greased lightning, Burnt Offerings tells the tale of a married couple who happen upon a great deal for a summer home getaway, their young boy, the father’s aging aunt, and the few weeks they all spend together at the summer house to escape the pressures... Continue Reading →
by Peter Straub “The dark gained on them all.” Our title character Julia, wealthy by inheritance and obsessed with her daughter’s death years before, retreats from her husband, Magnus, and buys a house where she plans to live by herself. She begins seeing things in the house, including a strange little girl, and starts investigating the... Continue Reading →
by Jim Thompson “It’s a screwed up, bitched up world, and I’m afraid it’s going to stay that way. And I’ll tell you why. Because no one, almost no one, sees anything wrong with it.” This book takes a fairly strong stomach as the story unfolds from the first-person perspective of our main character, a... Continue Reading →
by Fritz Leiber “There are two sides to every woman. . . One is rational, like a man. The other knows.” Norman, a successful professor at a mid-level private college is happily married to his wife Tansy when he one day catches her practicing witchcraft. He immediately pounces on her superstitions and insists she rid... Continue Reading →
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