Marion: I finished the Veronica Roth novella Arch-Conspirator, that Bill recommended, and thought it was very good. Now I’m halfway through a thriller by Paula McLain called When the Stars Go Dark. It’s set in the village of Mendocino, CA, and other north-coastal spots in 1993. While it’s well-written, the blending of her fictional missing-girl story with the real-life Polly Klaas is a little hard to take. That case isn’t abstract history for me–I remember it vividly. I’m sticking with the book though.
Sandy: Moi? I am currently reading the final book that Scottish-born author John Taine wrote; his marvelously titled novel G.O.G. 666. The copy of the book that I own is the first-edition, 1954 hardcover from Fantasy Press. I look forward to sharing some thoughts on this one with you all shortly….
Terry: I’m reading Owen Hill’s The Curator, but so far it hasn’t grabbed me. I guess I should have been warned off by the comparison to Dickens, whose work also doesn’t grab me!
What a dunderhead, not like the Horseclans series? I just like stories that are pure entertainment like these or Stirling's…
No, Paul, sorry, I don't believe I've read any books by Aickman; perhaps the odd story. I'm generally not a…
I like the ambiguities when the story leading up to them has inserted various dreadful possibilities in the back of…
COMMENT Marion, I expect that my half-hearted praise here (at best) will not exactly endear me to all of Ramsey…
Ramsay Campbell was all the rage in my circle of horror-reading/writing friends in the 1980s, and they extolled the ambiguity.…