Weeklyish musings: 2023-10-06

What I’m reading

• “Gallows Hill”, Darcy Coates - does a good job at establishing a sense of creeping dread. Planning to seek our more by the author.

• “Small Spaces”, Katherine Arden - part 1 of Small Spaces series. Loved this middle grade horror series.

• “Dead Voices”, Katherine Arden - part 2

• “Dark Waters”, Katherine Arden - part 3

• “Empty Smiles”, Katherine Arden - part 4

• “Shutter”, Ramona Emerson - really enjoyed this one

• “The Last Mapmaker”, Christina Soontornvat - fantasy inspired by Thai mythology

• “Ember and the Ice Dragons”, Heather Fawcett - loved Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Figured her writing style would lend itself well to middle grade and we enjoyed this one.

• “The School Between Winter and Fairyland”, Heather Fawcett - another good middle grade fantasy

• “Grey Noise”, Marcus Hawke - interesting indie horror

• “Native Fear”, C. F. Page

• “The Last Olympian”, Rick Riordan

• “Episode Thirteen”, Craig DiLouie - found footage / what if a ghost hunters reality tv show actually encountered a haunting

• “White Horse”, Erika T. Wurth (audiobook)

• “Hell House”, Richard Matheson (audiobook)

• “The Night Parade”, Ronald Malfi (audiobook)

• “Thornhedge”, T. Kingfisher (audiobook)

• “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone”, Benjamin Stevenson (audiobook)

• “Moon of the Crusted Snow”, Rice Waubgeshig (audiobook)

• “The Legend of Skeleton Man”, Joseph Bruchac (audiobook)

• “Just Like Home”, Sarah Gailey (audiobook)

• “Rabbits”, Terry Miles (audiobook)

• “Psycho”, Robert Bloch (audiobook)

• “The Silence”, Tim Lebbon (audiobook)

• “Malorie”, Josh Malerman (audiobook)

• “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth”, Kevin Wilson (audiobook)

• “The Blighted Stars”, Megan E. O’Keefe (audiobook)

• “A Night in the Lonesome October”, Roger Zelazny (audiobook)

• “The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England”, Brandon Sanderson (audiobook) - I particularly enjoyed the bits from the guidebook sprinkled between chapters

• “The Rats”, James Herbert (audiobook)

• “The Fog”, James Herbert (audiobook)

• “The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tradking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage”, Clifford Stoll (audiobook, non-fiction)

• “America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America nd Its Enemies”, George Friedman (audiobook, non-fiction)

• “Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives”, Adam Cesare (audiobook)

• “The Bear and the Nightingale”, Katherine Arden (audiobook)

• “The Lesser Dead”, Christopher Buehlman (audiobook)

• “Wizard and Glass”, Stephen King (audiobook)

• “The Waste Lands”, Stephen King (audiobook)

• “It Waits in the Woods”, Josh Malerman (audiobook)

• “100 Fathoms Below”, Steven L. Kent (audiobook)

• “Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places”, Colin Dickey (audiobook)

• “Space: 1969”, Bill Oakley (audiobook)

• “The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patric”, Mallory O’Meara (audiobook, non-fiction)

What I’m playing

• Dying Light 2