Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more […]
Halloween is right around the corner, the desire for all things spooky is officially in full swing. In the recent weeks I’ve been asked numerous times, “What are your recommendations on scary books for Fall?” I love this question mostly due to the fact that I LOVE Halloween, Autumn is my favorite season. I also […]
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to in intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery – but their idyll is shattered when Astrid’s mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by […]
It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale-dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner-rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the popularity […]
When female remains are discovered in the hills of Georgia, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy recruits Sergeant D.D. Warren and survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane to join her federal taskforce. Have they at last unearthed the truth about Flora’s kidnapper? Or have they opened a door to something indescribably worse? It soon becomes clear that nothing in the […]
Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin’s murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig […]
Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man’s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear. It’s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora’s Box just got opened in the ruins, […]
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.” – Frankenstein/Mary Shelly Written in 1818 by […]
I would like to start by saying I am a huge Stephen King fan! The entire novels setting is taken place in a summer cabin on Lake Kashwahamak where you are introduced to the two main characters of the whole story; Jesse and Gerald. Gerald is a lawyer, who comes off as extremely narcissistic, I […]
So I am going against what I normally review about, however, I really wanted to throw in some really great children books. These books have permanent spots on my shelves, as well as created some truly amazing memories while reading before bed. These ten books have brought incontrollable laughs and giggles, while remaining the most […]
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