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Brother Odd (Odd Thomas Novels) 232 reviews
Dean Koontz
Bantam, 2007
Don't Miss This One
+ The Latest Odd Thomas Novel
+ OMG!
Brother Odd, the third book in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz, takes the reader to the hills of the Sierra Mountains in northern California. Odd (whose strange name supposedly comes from an error on his birth certificate where the T was dropped from Todd) has come to St. Bartholomew's Abbey ...
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House of Leaves582 reviews
Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2000
If nothing else, provides material for good discussions
+ An engaging and clever read
+ A strange book
A book about a book written by an old man about a movie that never was, compiled by a young man with a psychotic mother and a broken life. It's a rich universe contained in a single volume, and it is amazing as long as you forget that none of it is real.
Doubtlessly, people will be drawn to one ...
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin Classics) 21 reviews
Jan Potocki
Penguin Classics, 1996
This is an Amazing Book
+ A beguiling original ahead of it's time
+ The Meandering Mirror
+ Traveler's Tales
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Twice-Told Tales (Modern Library Classics)7 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Modern Library, 2001
The best of Twice Told Tales
+ Good Collection
+ Twice-Told Tales
+ Stretching Yarns
+ Smokefree
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Odd Hours 171 reviews
Dean Koontz
Bantam, 2008
Has Dean Jumped the Shark?
Before anyone throws stones in my direction, I am one of those rabid fans who has read everything Dean has written. He is the one author who's books I purchase new automatically, the hardback version, the one where I have to plunk down some real bucks because I can't wait to enter Dean's world. ...
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The Vampire Lestat (Rice, Anne, Chronicles of the Vampires, 2nd Bk.)352 reviews
Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, 1997
My favorite of the series!
+ Lestat gets to tell his story.
+ A Gothic Tale with A Modern Perspective
In this book, you get to learn of Lestat's past, and how he became a vampire. The writing style of this series (the first 3 anyway), is what makes them my favorite vampire novels.
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Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)14 reviews
Charles Robert Maturin
Penguin Classics, 2001
THIS BOOK IS THE GRANDFATHER OF POE, MARY SHELLEY, BRAM STOKER, JOYCE AND EVEN DICKENS WITH GREAT INTRO BY SAGE
+ This book is a hoot
+ Rewarding
+ Melmoth the Wanderer: Most Unique Gothic Novel -- and Not the Easiest to Read
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The Three Impostors and Other Stories: Vol. 1 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu ... 17 reviews
Arthur Machen
Chaosium Inc., 2007
More chilling than gore
+ Marvelous Machen
+ Excellent fantasy horror
+ Short and sweet!!
+ A great addition to any weird library, from this Welsh seer of the hidden
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The Ruins (Vintage) (Vintage) 986 reviews
Scott Smith
Vintage, 2008
Quality Horror
+ The Ruination of Sleep
+ A Good Read
With Scott Smith's first novel A SIMPLE PLAN he took the literary world by storm. The novel received raves from all critics, developed a huge cult following and was called by many the best suspense novel of the year. Here we have his follow-up, THE RUINS, many years after the first and it is in a ...
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Cold Streak32 reviews
Lewis E Aleman
Megalodon Entertainment LLC., 2007
Wonderful
+ Fast paced, easy to read
+ I was not able to put this book down!
+ Demands To Be Read
+ Great Book
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The Terror: A Novel223 reviews
Dan Simmons
Back Bay Books, 2007
an all-time favorite
+ Pretty good.
+ Fantastic story, and much of it true
The funny part about this, is that I hesitated buying the book. The only book I had read from Dan Simmons was Darwin's blade, and I didnt like it at all. But after reading a positive review in USA Today I thought I'd give him another shot. Am I ever glad I did! Quite simply, maybe the best book ...
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Blaze: A Novel149 reviews
Richard Bachman
Pocket, 2008
It's not wrong to want the bad guy to win!
+ Stephen Kings does of Mice and Men
+ BLAZE IS GOOD!
You know how, when you meet an exceptional person, you feel honored to have been able to know them? You feel that you were lucky to have known them, to have been able to glimpse their life, to have been a part of it. Well, that is how I feel about Blaze. I feel honored to have known him for such a ...
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Interview with the Vampire577 reviews
Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, 1997
A World Beyond Your Mind's Eyes
+ Tower of Imagination
+ Love and Angst for all Eternity
+ vampire legend made real
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Dracula (Enriched Classics Series)17 reviews
Bram Stoker
Pocket, 2003
Excellent book
+ Dracula... Spooky Social Commentary
+ A True Classic
+ Amazing, Thrilling Tale
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story31 reviews
Horace Walpole
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Lovely, trashy early novel
The Castle of Otranto isn't the best novel you'll ever read, since its characters are more like "types" than living human beings. That said, it's a breezy example of an early novel, before the Victorians got hold of the form and made the books longer and more "respectable." This is one of the ...
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Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)35 reviews
Mary Shelley
Pocket, 2004
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
+ The Pusuit of Greatness
I bought this for my son for a school reading assignment. He did not like the book at all. Me, on the other hand, I liked it. I read it years & years ago but I enjoyed it the 2nd time around.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions)1 review
Robert Louis Stevenson
W. W. Norton, 2002
Some Points to Consider
+ Greatest work of Sci-fi.
+ Good Book
Since I am a contributor to this volume, I will not offer a "review" in a conventional sense, but I will offer a list of contents, which this website otherwise does not offer. As there are a number of competing paperback editions of Stevenson's novella and the text of the story is essentially the ...
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae656 reviews
Steven Pressfield
Bantam, 2005
Buy this book!!!
+ Fine historical novel
+ Captivating!
+ A Great Great Read
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Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft28 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft
Del Rey, 1995
Not Free SF Reader
+ Another Great Lovecraft Collection
+ Weird fiction
+ First Time Lovecraft Reader is Hooked
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Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales (Penguin Classics)1 review
Bram Stoker
Penguin Classics, 2007
Must-read for Stoker fans
Dracula being one of my favorite books, I was thrilled to find this collection of Bram Stoker's short stories. I enjoy horror writers who can provoke old-fashioned fright without relying too heavily on graphic details; while those details have a place, too many of them dampen a story. I was ...
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