Books, Fanfiction, Poetry
From bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and eight-year-old Stevies school is worse.… Continue reading Lost Boys – Orson Scott Card Book Review
If you like horror stories, check out Darcy Coates' collection! I started reading one story a day about two weeks and they were good enough to give me the creeps! Other lovely short stories with a horror twinge can be seen in the Stephen King part of my library: Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King… Continue reading Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Horror Short Stories by Darcy Coates
What the Night Knows will literally grab you by the throat and throttle you in the first few pages and then not let go till you’re either dead or you get to the last page. There’s no way you’ll be able to figure out what’s going to happen no matter how hard your mind struggles. … Continue reading What the Night Knows * Dean Koontz
A man in his eighties should be well past the terrors of childhood, but as my infirmities slowly creep up on me, like waves licking closer and closer to some indifferently built castle of sand, that terrible face grows clearer and clearer in my mind’s eye. It glows like a dark star in the constellations… Continue reading The man in the black coat * Stephen King Short Story
I loved the story with the guy who's wife left him after arguing over cats and dogs (L.T.'s Theory Of Pets) and I loved this story too. A couple breaks apart when she decides to leave him all of a sudden and he's faced with her wrath and her therapist. When they decide to meet… Continue reading Lunch at the Gotham Café * Stephen King
If you are not getting enough drama from the daily news, if you are looking for a paranormal story of death, murder, betrayal, rape and revenge, look no further than Joe Hill's Horns. Ig Perrish wakes up the day after the one year anniversary of his girlfriend's death. He drank way too much the night… Continue reading Joe Hill * Horns
"Subject is a white Caucasian, age forty - four," Pete says, speaking for the mike now, speaking for posterity. "His name is Howard Randolph Cottrell, residence is 1566 Laurel Crest Lane, here in Derry." Imagine you are on an autopsy table. Not dead but breathing ever so slightly. And everyone thinks you are dead. You get undressed, you get checked… Continue reading Autopsy in room 4 * Stephen King Short Story
“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.” Like many of the Mother Goose rhymes, the verse about the Tommyknockers is deceptively simple. The origin of the word is difficult to trace. Webster's… Continue reading The Tommyknockers * Stephen King’s Green Light UFO
A UK hardback first edition/first printing of Duma Key by Stephen King, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2008, with a front cover image by Lisa Kimmell. Now, the thing about Stephen King is, I've read a lot of his books. Back in the 1990s and 2000s I devoured every Stephen King book I could… Continue reading Stephen King * Duma Key
Thinner is about a fat man who is cursed by a gypsy and loses weight. If that’s all there was to it I’m sure we’d all be running out to find ourselves a Romany, but that’s not how curses work. Billy Halleck, the fat man, can’t stop losing weight and it’s going to kill him. “Some… Continue reading Stephen King * Thinner
