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Something is Wrong with these Houses
Haunted House novels are uniquely unsettling, at least I think so. They’re one of my favourite types of horror novels, and I don’t mean ghosts or creaking floor boards, I mean houses that feel alive in the worst ways. Houses that leap off the page, that watch you from the margins, that remember and slowly begin to close around the people trapped inside them, that drag you in as well. Haunted house stories are some of my favourite kinds of horror because the setting becomes part of the nightmare itself. The walls feel wrong. The rooms shift. Reality starts slipping sideways, and the longer the characters stay, the more impossible…
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Book Review – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
In 2012 Etsy Beaucarne is told of the discovery of her great, great, great grandfather Arthurs 1912 journal pulled from a wall of a parsonage. Etsy is determined to use the journal in some way to earn tenure at her job with the university. Arthur is a Lutheran priest and the journal itself details two storyline’s “The Absolution of Three Persons” detailing his growing uncertainty about the mysterious Native American man who has suddenly begun appearing at his church sitting in the back of his services and the second “The Nachzehrer’s Dark Gospel” in which we learn the story of the Blackfeet man Good Stab who is compelled to confesses…
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Gothic Reads – My February TBR
Gothic horror is the key to my heart, it’s my forever favourite genre. For February, I decided I wanted to do a deep dive into some of the gorgeous Gothic goodies I have sitting on my shelves (physical or digital). I want haunted houses, slow-burning dread, obsession and secrets that refuse to stay buried. This year, I really want to read for myself, things that make me happy and go beyond trends, so my plan is to deep dive into gothic literature. I’d love to go back and read the classics, find all the books that created the genre I love so much, but for today and this month, I…
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