by David Morrell “If I thought there was the slightest chance of your beating them, I’d gladly tell you to keep on the move. But I know you can’t get away. Believe me. I know it. Please. While you still can, give up and get out of this alive. There’s nothing you can do.” “Watch... Continue Reading →
The Straw Men
by Michael Marshall “Sometimes the truth isn’t what you want to know. Sometimes the truth is best left to itself.” We’ve looked at a decent amount of horror here, and while the intricacy falls short of tales like The Angel’s Game or The Club Dumas, this book is one of the more complex. You’ll probably... Continue Reading →
The Club Dumas
by Arturo Perez-Reverte "The rainbow is the bridge between heaven and earth. It will shatter at the end of the world, once the devil has crossed it on horseback." Fans of the Polanski movie, The Ninth Gate, may recognize this book as the source, although the differences between the two are extensive. Written in Spanish... Continue Reading →
The Killer Inside Me
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 →
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, “No, that’s not right.” Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything. Fight Club is the story of a man too sensitive to the shortcomings of modern... Continue Reading →
By Insanity of Reason
by John R. Little; Lisa Morton “If I was tried for murder, I’d just demand a jury of my peers. Every parent understands wanting to kill the miserable kids once in a while.” If you first experience Lisa Morton through the outstanding anthology Dark Delicacies, you'll see the book’s opening story by heavyweight Ray Bradbury... Continue Reading →
The Angel’s Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and dream about it.” A young writer who was introduced to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books through our favorite booksellers, ‘Sempere & Sons,’ is tasked to write a specific, dangerous book by... Continue Reading →