Books

[Carnage]

Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman. The basis for that recent Other Mommy fillum, he also wrote the novel Bird Box was based on.

Decent enough, quite creepy at times. A child is 'haunted' by a presence in the family home, it's told from her perspective. Kinda falls down there in spots as there are plenty of extended sections of the adults' monologues but sure I suppose it's from her POV, not her recollection. Worth a read anyway.

[Maggot Colony]

Incidents Around The House by Josh Malerman. The basis for that recent Other Mommy fillum, he also wrote the novel Bird Box was based on.

Decent enough, quite creepy at times. A child is 'haunted' by a presence in the family home, it's told from her perspective. Kinda falls down there in spots as there are plenty of extended sections of the adults' monologues but sure I suppose it's from her POV, not her recollection. Worth a read anyway.

I have Incidents on the Kindle but haven't got around to reading it yet.

Bird Box is very good, one of the more genuinely unsettling horror novels I've read recently.

Currently reading Crone by Keith Rosson, a horror crime hybrid. It's fucking brilliant, as good as Coffin Moon.

It's going cheap on Amazon Kindle:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crone-Keith-Rosson-ebook/dp/B0HDCH7GSZ

[Don Gately]

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

[Thorn]

How positively dashing of you!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

 

[Don Gately]

Actually scratch Jane Austen I got a book off my daighter for my birthday Good People by Patmeena Sabit

[Eoin McLove]

I tried Emma by Jane Austen a couple of years ago. I was just after finishing the mighty Middlemarch, so felt primed for more, but it was too light and throwaway for me. Grand oul feel good telly stuff, but not what I really want to spend time reading.

[Thorn]

Yeah, powderpuff romance for the most part but I still read her stuff now and again for the prose and the settings and the sense of the completely different world  it was back then, not too many birds swooning and fainting across their chaise-lounges anymore because they dropped a stitch in their needlework eh 

[Eoin McLove]

  true that. But Middlemarch gives you all that and characters of substance.

[Thorn]

Yeah I'd take Eliot anyday over Austen, much more gritty, Silas Mariner and particularly The Mill On The Floss, great books. For years I thought George Eliot was a man by the way, like up until maybe ten years ago.  Actually though, have you seen that nose?!