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“I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the dead ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the twisted ones.”

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

November 9, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I gave T. Kingfisher’s horror oeuvre another shot and I’ve come to the conclusion that I like her romance/fantasy writing more, so I’ll give another one of those a try if I want to read anything else by her. This one follows Melissa, who goes by Mouse, as she heads down to North Carolina to clean out her grandmother’s house. She’s just had a bad breakup and needs to get out of Pittsburgh for a while, so when her dad asks her to take on […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, folk horror, folk magic, horror, t kingfisher

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:127 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, folk horror, folk magic, horror, t kingfisher ·
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“No one ever believes me when I tell them my uncle Earl owns a museum.”

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

November 1, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is very readable and I’m glad I picked it up randomly at Barnes & Noble, but it didn’t live up to my hopes. I enjoyed Paladin’s Grace so much that I figured I’d see how Kingfisher did at horror. The Hollow Places follows Kara as she tries to recover from her recent divorce. She comes back to her small hometown to live with her uncle, who runs the Wonder Museum, full of taxidermy, Bigfoot memorabilia, and a picture of the Pope made of sunflower […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, family and friendship, family ties, horror, interdimensional horror, mother daughter relationships, t kingfisher

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:123 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, family and friendship, family ties, horror, interdimensional horror, mother daughter relationships, t kingfisher ·
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“Not running from your emotions is a sign of strength:” Life Lessons from Hell

Hell's Paradise Vol 1-13 by Yuji Kaku

July 27, 2022 by GentleRain 3 Comments

CBR14Bingo: Monster — many of the characters are seen as monsters and they also fight monsters The story of my struggle to get all thirteen of these volumes would drag on too long, but sufficed to say that the paper shortage and resultant out of print plague striking manga has affected us all and I had to wait over a month for the tenth volume to show up. What I really liked about this series was that it’s complete and thirteen volumes is a satisfying […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: body horror, cbr14bingo, chinese mythology, feudal japan, found family, historical, manga, the samurai, wife guy, Yuji Kaku

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:80 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: body horror, cbr14bingo, chinese mythology, feudal japan, found family, historical, manga, the samurai, wife guy, Yuji Kaku ·
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This is the slasher send-up I wanted

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

July 23, 2022 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

TW: abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, suicide BINGO: COLD [a portion of the story takes place in the frozen Idaho winter; also there are some cold-blooded murders] Jade is obsessed with horror movies. Specifically she loves slashers. She knows everything there is to know about the movies, the plots, the directors, the film-making process, everything. It is her entire life and personality, to a fault. She doesn’t have much else to do in a small town in Proofrock, Idaho. She even weaves in her slasher obsession into her […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: body horror, cbr14bingo, Final Girl, slasher, Stephen Graham Jones, Trigger Warning

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror · Tags: body horror, cbr14bingo, Final Girl, slasher, Stephen Graham Jones, Trigger Warning ·
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Competent, Readable Science Fiction

Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

February 12, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Robert Charles Wilson writes enjoyable, twisty sc-fi and Darwinia fits into his usual pattern of work. It’s a straight forward book that I know I’ve read before, but I had no memory of any of the twists or the plot. I guess that’s part of my general sense of okayness with the book — it’s not groundbreaking or revelatory, but it is competent and fun, and not everything is going to be Ursula K LeGuin. You’ll probably like it but won’t remember it in a year. I […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, alternate universe, body horror, robert charles wilson

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, alternate universe, body horror, robert charles wilson ·
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Revelator: Sometimes God is One of Us

Revelator: A Novel by Daryl Gregory

January 5, 2022 by GentleRain 3 Comments

To risk starting out on an annoyingly pretentious foot, Daryl Gregory is an author I liked before he was cool. I’d been enjoying his work before he broke out into the front tables of bookstores with Spoonbenders, and I feel an affection for his writing and the interesting things he does within the horror/fantasy field. I find him to be a writer like Robert Charles Wilson, a sure-footed storyteller whose name on the cover of a genre novel guarantees an interesting and fast moving read. […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: body horror, daryl gregory, god, Southern Gothic, strong female characters

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Horror · Tags: body horror, daryl gregory, god, Southern Gothic, strong female characters ·
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