The King in Yellow May 9, 2026 It’s funny how curiosity works. One moment you’re deep in a rabbit hole of fan theories for a modern mystery show like From, and the next, you’re holding a weird, unsettling piece of 19th-century literature that feels like it’s staring back at you. That’s exactly how I found myself reading Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow. After hearing rumors of a connection between the show’s mythology and this classic text, I set […]
Not a Speck of Light April 12, 2026 Most of the stories in the collection “Not a Spec of Light“, by Laird Barron are, frankly, boring. There are a couple of standouts. “Don’t Make Me Assume My Ultimate Form” was the one that held my attention—the conversation between the Danny Doll and the character with the brain tumor had a strange, unsettling edge that actually worked. “An American Remake of a Japanese Ghost Story” is probably the most clever piece […]
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell April 12, 2026 The second book I got from Brian Stevenson, after the collection of stories A Collapse of Horses. I was really hoping for more stories in the same vein as A Collapse of Horses (hoping really for another story to blow me away like the story “Click” from this collection.) Unfortunately, this was not the case. I could say this particular collection is weaker than Horses. The strongest story in the collection […]
A Collapse of Horses March 14, 2026 Brian Evenson’s A Collapse of Horses was my introduction to the author, and it accomplished one of the best things a book can do: it made me immediately go out and buy another book by the same writer. That alone says a lot. The collection is made up of short stories that live somewhere between psychological horror and something stranger and harder to pin down. Most of the stories land slightly above the […]
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