Furious

They sent Huck to do a tv interview?!

a shame

I’ll have a look see

Is it 99p? Last I looked it was fifteen quid

It really felt of a kind with the Wendig model - the acknowledgements section at the end in particular went on SO long and had that kind of faux humble joke-adjacent tone to it that it retrospectively soured me on what was a basically decent read

It just went on a bit and was a little repetitive and I remember getting 70% of the way through like how is there still another hundred pages of this left? It’s also bookended by an annoying modern day narrator who spoke like Chuck Wendig tweets. Basically fine but couldn't be arsed with it

Great premise - Native American INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE based around the 1870 Marias Massacre - interesting executed: narrated using Blackfoot language/slang as assumed knowledge. Cool imagery, loads of imagination, sly sense of humour, genuinely chilling horror. And yet. And yet. Quite boring.

It’s very odd but I really enjoyed it

... genuinely very beautiful weird fiction, in the best possible sense of the term - rooted in deeply human stories with just a dash of the uncanny. My favourite one climaxed with two elderly ladies building themselves a nest and hibernating for the winter. Really quite special

This was VERY ODD! In a good way! I’d thought it was just a folk horror novel but it’s more like a series of very loosely connected short stories, all set in the same town, each one leaping forward through time. Like a literary Royston Vasey, kinda...

... the first 80% is enjoyably nasty but it increasingly spirals out of control and just becomes nasty nasty - and I’ll confess I didn’t quite understand the ending. But still a good fun sub 300 page psychological thriller with a really unique protagonist and a vividly drawn setting

V entertaining: escalating battle of wits between an elderly widow & a horrid little boy in a Covid-denuded Egyptian hotel. Also a series of background mysteries that play out more or less satisfactorily. The author said it was originally a short story that grew out of control, which makes sense...

A little pulpier and more grotesque than past offerings - Birkin’s THE HARLEM HORROR was genuinely HORRID and Robbin’s SPURS (inspo for the film FREAKS) was very unpleasant. Good fun all round

Another of these BL short story collections; a characteristically entertaining romp through circus-themed weird fiction of the 20th century...

LET'S READ SOME BOOKS

It’s on my Christmas list 👀