Category Archives: Horror
Ashes
I am so over zombie books. At least I thought I was until I picked up Ilsa J. Bick’s Ashes. At the beginning of this young adult novel we meet Alex who has a brain tumor and has been given 6 months … Continue reading
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Best of 2011: Fiction Favorites
Tis the season for Best of Lists. Your inner cynic may question the need for yet another. But this list is special. Really! You see, this list was hand crafted by the seasoned staff of the Everett Public Library. Why … Continue reading
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It’s Halloween!
While pondering the frightening stories I’ve read over the years I realized that scary is not the same thing to all people. Some might find terror in a Stephen King novella, a supernatural thriller or an installment in the Laurell … Continue reading
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The Suicide Collectors
I love a good plague. From the black death to the influenza of 1918 that basically stopped the world in its tracks, plagues and contagion fascinate me. The thing I find absolutely amazing is that history really does repeat itself. … Continue reading
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Reading on Impulse
An intriguing review or recommendation is the usual, and sensible, criteria I use when selecting a book to read. Recently though, I overrode my usual programming and literally judged a book by its cover. Blame it on the weird graphics or … Continue reading
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Zombies
Lately I can’t seem to pick up a book without finding a zombie or two lurching between the covers. Through no desire of my own, the undead keep turning up at the drop of a … limb. This proliferation of … Continue reading
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House of Leaves
This book is not for you. So says the dedication page of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. For a brief moment the phrase is threatening: Don’t you dare go any further; put this away because it is not for your … Continue reading
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Post-Apo
It’s getting close to Dec. 21, 2012, so naturally everyone’s interested in the end of the world and its aftermath, the post-apocalypse. “Post-apo” has become sort of a hip shorthand for such end-of-the-world themes. Sensing this interest (or maybe sharing … Continue reading
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What to Read (Halloween Edition)
It’s a fact, and not a very surprising one, that we all read what we like. Why go out of your way to read something that you doubt will be to your taste? This is fine but becomes a problem when, as … Continue reading
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Alternate Seattles
Ever wonder how Seattle might have turned out if, say for example, it was inhabited by zombies, werewolves and vampires? Or what if, perhaps, in the late 1800s a virulent gas that turned people into flesh-hungry undead monsters was released … Continue reading
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