• Hans Zatzka
  • Edouard Bisson
  • Cicely Mary Barker
  • Emile Vernon
  • Francois Martin-Kavel
  • John William Godward
feb 7 2017 ∞
feb 7 2017 +
  • The Demonologist - Andrew Pyper
  • This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • House Of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
  • The Book - M. Clifford
  • The Exorcist - William Peters Blatty
  • Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
  • Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids - Kenzaburo Oe
  • In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster
  • Savaging the Dark - Christopher Conlon
  • The Devil's Prayer - Luke Gracias
  • Dweller - Jeff Strand
  • The Twilight Pariah - Jeffery Ford
  • Darkness on the Edge of Town - Brian Keene
  • Bad Man - Dathan Auerbach
  • The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack - Nate Crowley
  • Nyctophobia - Christopher Fowler
nov 15 2011 ∞
aug 22 2024 +
  • All the Fiends of Hell - Adam L.G. Nevill

This is my third Nevill book after The Ritual (loved) and The Vessel (ok). This one falls in between those two. It’s a fantastic premise and I really liked the narrator/protagonist and the children he teams up with. The aliens are super scary and creepy and there are plenty of classic horror novel jump scares. But the language of the book often leaned a little too flowery for me, like there was too much poemy exposition. The bones of the story were fantastic and I wish that he could have just stuck with that without delving into so many long winded descriptions of scenery. It certainly created a mood while reading, but I often found myself skimming over whole passages of description.

jan 16 2025 ∞
jan 16 2025 +