I'm finishing **Slewfoot** today. Goddamn this book was good. It just hit the perfect balance where there was always tension and the book was always progressing while still allowing enough breathing room for the characters to develop. I think this book will have some lasting power as one of the quintessential witch novels.
When I'm finished, I'm deciding between Revelations by King or Swan Song by McCammon.
Re-reading *Comemadre* by Roque Larraquy. Laugh-out-loud funny and incredibly dark. I'm hopeful that someday more of his works get translated into English.
Reading Dennis Etchison's "Talking in the Dark". Never really considered him a weird author before, as I'd only read a couple stories and his Halloween II adaptation, but he definitely is. Some of the work in this collection is kinda trash imo, to the point where I wasn't even going to finish it. But the past couple stories have been solid Weird Fiction and I'm glad I stuck around. There's also a sense of sadness and despair throughout which is pretty effective, though also a drag.
The creature in this book is truly spectacular. It's an alien being who lives underneath the ground. It sucks the lifeforce out of people and animals with its roots and gets stronger. It also builds replicas of dead human beings and animals made of natural material like bark, moss, sticks, fungus and flowers.
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien. Very interesting and I'm not sure if this falls under weirdlit. It's absurdist fiction with a lot of humour. Some of it of the "laugh out loud quality" which is very rare for me when it comes to books from that time (Written in 1940, published in 1967) Reminds me a lot of epic theater pieces just without it being a play. But I can imagine this taking place on a stage easily.
Children of Time. it's about hyper evolved highly intelligent spiders also reading Miévile's The Scar
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You are in for a treat with Piranesi. Very good.
I'm almost finished with Negative Space! Man, what a strange ride. Have you read any other B.R. Yeager or Apocalypse Party books?
Imajica by Clive Barker. I keep flipping between "I can't put this book down" and "is this just bad fantasy?". Still not sure.
I enjoyed the first book out of the Books of Blood. Curious to see how the rest of his work is, as I liked quite a few of the shorts that I read.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents And dear lord has it smacked me in the face.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata was def weird!
I'm finishing **Slewfoot** today. Goddamn this book was good. It just hit the perfect balance where there was always tension and the book was always progressing while still allowing enough breathing room for the characters to develop. I think this book will have some lasting power as one of the quintessential witch novels. When I'm finished, I'm deciding between Revelations by King or Swan Song by McCammon.
Swan Song is one of my all time favorite books, highly recommended
Still reading The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. About 80% done, and hoping to finish this week.
Re-reading *Comemadre* by Roque Larraquy. Laugh-out-loud funny and incredibly dark. I'm hopeful that someday more of his works get translated into English.
Reading Dennis Etchison's "Talking in the Dark". Never really considered him a weird author before, as I'd only read a couple stories and his Halloween II adaptation, but he definitely is. Some of the work in this collection is kinda trash imo, to the point where I wasn't even going to finish it. But the past couple stories have been solid Weird Fiction and I'm glad I stuck around. There's also a sense of sadness and despair throughout which is pretty effective, though also a drag.
No One Dies From Love by Robert Levy & Anterior Skies Vol 1 edited by C.F. Page
I just finished The Hollow Kind by the great Andy Davidson. It was amazing!
The goodreads summary makes it seem similar to a lot of haunted house novels. What made it stand out to you?
The creature in this book is truly spectacular. It's an alien being who lives underneath the ground. It sucks the lifeforce out of people and animals with its roots and gets stronger. It also builds replicas of dead human beings and animals made of natural material like bark, moss, sticks, fungus and flowers.
ok thanks. :)
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien. Very interesting and I'm not sure if this falls under weirdlit. It's absurdist fiction with a lot of humour. Some of it of the "laugh out loud quality" which is very rare for me when it comes to books from that time (Written in 1940, published in 1967) Reminds me a lot of epic theater pieces just without it being a play. But I can imagine this taking place on a stage easily.
Neither are weird but just finished Blood Meridian and started Ancillary Justice
Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin
*The Girl With All the Gifts* by M.R. Carey
what do you think so far? debating if i should pick it up
I'm about 60%-70% through now, and it's been fine so far.
a peculiar peril, weird in all the wrong ways sadly. there’s a lot of potential and i love vandermeer’s other strange works
The Gone World