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10 Horror Books You’ve Never Read?

Photo credit: Publisher’s Weekly/Kevin Kelly

 

Nick Cutter, author of The Troop (reviewed here) and, most recently, The Deep, compiled a list for Booklist titled  “10 Horror Books You’ve Never Read”. It’s kind of a fun list because he left off some of the books that typically appear on “Best Of” lists, but it’s kinda hard for me to believe that the average horror reader isn’t familiar with the majority of them.  Cutter notes that his taste in horror is on the “visceral” side, and certainly a number of the authors on his list don’t stint on the gore and violence. Still, it’s an interesting list, and it’s easy to see that Cutter definitely is an enthusiastic fan of horror fiction.  Here’s a  link to the list.

So, what do you think? Is there anything you’d add?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by , Reply

Help a Reader Out: Demons, Abortions, and Organ Harvesting

A librarian is looking for this book:

I’m looking for a book for a patron. He thinks it was published prior to 1995 and he got it from Christian Book Distributors. It’s a thriller and includes demons in a hospital, abortions, and organ harvesting. I am having no luck tracking it down.

Anyone have ideas as to what this could be?

Posted on January 14, 2015 by , Reply

New Resources: The Genre Blender (and some ghost stories)

Click here to visit the Genre Blender

So many stories cross genre boundaries, and are missed by readers of one genre or the other, when both might discover some new world or a previously unknown (to them) novel. That’s really a shame. A lot of quality fiction (and a lot of entertaining mindless reading as well) gets passed up by readers who would probably enjoy it.

Soooo… I am thrilled to be able to say that librarian Megan McArdle has taken the time to create a “genre blender” Yes, that is exactly what it is. Choose two genres, click on the blender, and get a list of books that might suit your reading habits (this doesn’t mean they’re identical– you still have to search through them to find which ones might be right for you– but it’s a great starting point and gives you a way to add to your TBR list.

Megan has a book coming out this fall on genre blends, as you can see above. Even if you don’t purchase it (and like most ALA editions, I’m guessing it doesn’t come cheap), I’m betting that her blog, Genrify, which is where the Genre Blender is located, will be updated with new titles over time, so if you read genre blends like historical horror or urban fantasy, it definitely will be worth checking out. Go play!

Postscript: I like her list of ghost stories, which you can find here, but she left off Chris Bohjalian’s The Night Strangers. What else would you add to that list?

Posted on November 5, 2014 by , Reply
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