Good Citizen posted:

Rammed in the butt by revelations of Chuck Tingle’s origins

Metaline posted:

AMAZING. I didn't know that was possible!

escape artist posted:

How the hell was I supposed to hear about him? I just figured he was another of many debut novelists... There are so many new horror writers, I just figured he was another.

I might have to get one of these Kindle singles and see if they're as funny as the covers.

fez_machine posted:

he was literally nominated for a Hugo award

and then wrote about getting rammed in the butt by it

fez_machine posted:

he was literally nominated for a Hugo award

and then wrote about getting rammed in the butt by it

Ornamented Death posted:

Chuck Tingle's nomination was absolutely wonderful because a group of rear end in a top hat did it to troll the Hugos but ended up being trolled relentlessly by Chuck instead.

Ravus Ursus posted:

I should probably find out who Chuck Tingle is.

I've seen his name but I've managed to avoid anything he's written and only learned, via osmosis, that he writes weird stuff?

ExplodingChef posted:

If you use FB, he's an absolutely pro follow.

Opopanax posted:

Jesus The Terror sure is long, hope I can get through this beefy boy before the end of the year

MockingQuantum posted:

fwiw if you make it 3/4 of the way through or so by the end of the year and just drop it at that point it'd probably be for the best

There were a lot of things I liked about The Terror, a good handful of things I did not at all (mostly the kind of stuff you can basically expect from Simmons at this point), but be prepared for a pretty bad ending, imo

Opopanax posted:

That’s what I want to hear when I have about 22hrs left
I am enjoying it so far at least but I’m way too sunk cost to quit on anything though so I’ll see it through. I’m going to Franklin my way though this thing no matter what

Opopanax posted:

Jesus The Terror sure is long, hope I can get through this beefy boy before the end of the year

gey muckle mowser posted:

I haven't read Hex by the same author yet and I've heard that's excellent, I've already requested it from the library.

Opopanax posted:

Jesus The Terror sure is long, hope I can get through this beefy boy before the end of the year

gey muckle mowser posted:

I haven't read Hex by the same author yet and I've heard that's excellent, I've already requested it from the library.

gey muckle mowser posted:

Giragast posted:

Great timing, I just finished this and wanted to ask: should I read Hyperion if I what I didn't like about The Terror was those chapters where characters lore dump in incredibly awkward conversations, instead of just recalling them internally (e.g. let me tell you all about Darwin and my other friend Charles Babbage and his mechanical calculating device)? I don't know how much of that exists in his other books.

Tiny Timbs posted:

I don't think I made it more than 15 minutes into Season 2

Kubricize posted:

The last horror novel I finished was Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. I enjoyed it as a dystopian, horror version of Y the Last man but the sexual assualt, rapey aspects of the monsters was a bit off putting. I loved both of the main characters though Fran had me facepalming a bit.

I'm taking a break by reading the third Zoey Ashe book before I pick my next horror novel but I have Huge by Brent Butt or Brainwryms by Alison Rumfitt. I think I may go with Huge, both because Corner Gas is a big thing in Canada and if Brainwryms is anything like Tell Me I'm Worthless I may want a longer break between Manhunt and it.

Opopanax posted:

That’s what I want to hear when I have about 22hrs left
I am enjoying it so far at least but I’m way too sunk cost to quit on anything though so I’ll see it through. I’m going to Franklin my way though this thing no matter what

Ornamented Death posted:

The Terror is a great 400-page book hiding in an average 800-page book.

ClydeFrog posted:

VBC you are costing me a fortune with your tantalising reviews

(Don’t stop though)

I was looking at Out There Screaming which is a black author anthology. Anyone else read this yet? I like short stories especially for my once a week commute to reassure the office I’m still alive. Getting to engage with an entire story is perfect to offset the dreariness of the British rail system.

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An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption.

William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace.

Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day’s chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens­­—the man who’s haunted his whole life—back home. But when the rescue mission becomes an uncanny journey into his past, Day must face up to the things he’s done.

Abandonment. Betrayal. Cannibalism.

Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted passengers: a reporter obsessively digging up the truth about the first expedition, as well as Stevens’s wife, a spirit-medium whose séances both fascinate and frighten. Following a trail of cryptic messages, gaunt bodies, and old bones, their search becomes more and more unnerving, as it becomes clear that the restless dead are never far behind. Something is coming through.

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Including illustrations from bestselling illustrator and political cartoonist, Chris Riddell, Mothtown is the unsettling and eerie new novel by Caroline Hardaker, perfect for fans of Midsommar and Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland.

As a child, David could tell something was wrong.
The kids in school spread rumours of missing people, nests of bones and bodies appearing in the mountains. His sister refused to share what she knew, and his parents turned off the TV whenever he entered the room. Protecting him, they said.
Worse, the only person who shared anything at all with him, his beloved grandpa, disappeared without a goodbye. Mum and Dad said he was dead. But what about the exciting discovery Grandpa had been working on for his whole life?

Now 26, David lives alone and takes each day as it comes. When a strange package arrives on his doorstep, one with instructions not to leave the Earth, a new world is unfurled before David, one he’s been trying to suppress for years.

Blending horror and literary fiction, Mothtown is the strange new novel from celebrated author Caroline Hardaker.

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Ana and Reid needed a lucky break.
The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That’s about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear—affordable housing lottery.

They’ve won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan’s most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning architecture.

Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia as the price of living in New York—people are odd—but he can’t explain the needle-like bite marks on the baby.

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From Tyler Jones, author of MIDAS and BURN THE PLANS, one of Esquire's Best Horror Books of 2022, comes a story of deep sea terror and cosmic horror.

Struggling with the pressures of being a new father and the weight of regrets, Jamie Fletcher travels to Hawaii in hopes of connecting with his estranged brother, Eric.

After a shocking act of violence, the brothers end up on a fishing boat--along with the captain and his son--in the middle of the ocean, where they encounter an uncanny and terrifying phenomenon that will signal a shift in the evolution of the world.

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From Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author Gemma Amor comes an atmospheric gothic mystery that will haunt you long after the final page is turned.

Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother, and has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. Finally he is set free, but they can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her mother’s blood. Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark and notorious decorative granite tower on the Cornish coastline known only as ‘The Folly’. The owner makes them an offer: take care of the Folly, and you can live there. It’s an offer too good to refuse.

At first the Folly is idyllic, but soon a stranger arrives who acts like Morgan’s mother, talks like her mother, and wears her dead mother’s clothes. Is this stranger hell-bent on vengeance, in touch with her restless mother’s spirit itself, or simply just deranged? And, most importantly, what exactly happened the night Morgan’s mother died?

An atmospheric nod to The Lighthouse, with hints of Du Maurier’s Rebecca, played out on a lonely, Cornish backdrop, THE FOLLY is visceral mystery and family drama, a dark examination of love, loyalty, guilt and possession that draws on the very real horror of betrayal by those closest to us, by those we love the best.