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Required reading for Halloween

September 27, 2012 by Dave Knadler

Over the last few nights I’ve been reading Ghost Stories, a collection of M.R. James tales selected (and introduced) by Ruth Rendell. Hey, I figure it’s close enough to Halloween to justify it. I finished the last story last night with just a little bit of regret. These are some pretty good yarns. If, […]

Filed Under: Books, horror fiction

Thoroughly modern vampires

October 28, 2011 by Dave Knadler

the strain book cover

Look, you either like vampire horror or you don’t, and I can sympathize with both points of view on this. But it’s nearly Halloween. So after reading The Strain, I’m inclined to give the genre the benefit of the doubt again — as long as the vampires remain monstrous and not the objects of […]

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The Count abides

September 30, 2009 by Dave Knadler

Can any book be considered truly frightening these days? Maybe not, what with an entire generation now conditioned to equate horror primarily with power tools and torture porn. But there was a time when certain books kept a lot of people awake at night, alert for a subtle creaking on the stairs, a scratching […]

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The two scariest books ever written

October 31, 2007 by Dave Knadler

Since it’s now Halloween and the western sky has gone amber here in middle America, the window is rapidly closing for horror-themed posts. I’d better get with it. Soon trick-or-treaters will be making their endless demands and I’ll be too busy shoveling candy at them to do much else. Let us turn now from […]

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The dog days, and "August Heat"

August 11, 2007 by Dave Knadler

It’s a slow day in the blogosphere, so let’s go to the mail bag. Wait a second … I don’t have a mail bag. I suppose that means it’s time to pull something out of the air. Or my ass. Here in Wichita, we are in the middle of a string of 100-degree days, […]

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