![]() ![]() ![]() With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.Īlthough undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. The film follows Rawhead Rex's rampage through the Irish countryside while a man struggles to stop it. A particularly nasty demon is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. Volume 3 contains the stories “Son of Celluloid,” “Rawhead Rex,” “Confession of a (Pornographer’s) Shroud,” “Scape-Goats,” “Human Remains.” Barker himself adapted "Rawhead Rex" into a movie in 1986. "Books of Blood: Volume 3" by Clive Barker. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. ![]() No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. It was not that my point of vantage gave me a different view, but that an alteration had apparently been effected in the relation of the tent to the willows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without any spoilers.Here are Becky's thoughts. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal’s life for ever.īecky has read it from cover to cover.If she doesn't like a book after the first few pages she will put it down and not pick it up again so for her to read it all means she really enjoyed it. And when Opal meets Morgan – Mrs Roberts’ handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen – she believes she has found her soulmate. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory’s beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces Opal to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. ![]() ![]() Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this mature, coming-of-age, epistolary novel follows the point of view of its main antagonist Laurel. She must face up to them – before they consume her. She writes about her new high school, her new friends, her first love – and her shattered life.īut the ghosts of Laurel’s past can’t be contained between the lines of a page forever. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people – Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Pheonix, Amelia Earhart, Amy Winehouse…It’s like she can’t stop. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain – he died young, and so did Laurel’s sister May – so maybe he’ll understand what Laurel is going through. It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person. Sometimes the best letters go unanswered. ![]() She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and also graduated from Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. About The AuthorĪva Dellaria was born in California and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This YA novel is told through a series of letters written to dead people by a 15-year-old girl named Laurel who is grieving the recent mysterious death of her sister May. Love Letters to the Dead is the first novel by American author Ava Dellaria, published in 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I wasn’t- that is- I’m not- you see, what transpired was-” A gather of guilt and nerves blocked her throat, forcing her to make an unladylike noise before she could speak in complete sentences. To her absolute discomfiture, the perplexed wrinkle beneath the chocolate forelock over his forehead deepened to a frown line. “Felicity?” His brilliant whisky eyes flicked over her as if cataloguing a rudimentary clinical assessment. Titus Conleith gripping the handle.Īnd yet, here she was, flustered to the point of speechlessness at the sight of his classically handsome features, arranged into a bemused expression. It shouldn’t have shocked her to find her brother-in-law Dr. Today, her inquiry was one of a personal nature, and if she wasn’t mistaken, she’d identified two masculine murmurs on the other side.īefore she could ascertain a single thing, the cool surface of the door fell away from her heated cheek. Felicity Goode made certain she was alone in the hallway before she pressed her ear to the door.īut lately, she’d been doing all sorts of things out of the ordinary. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stakes are higher than ever, but between shooting daggers at each other’s backs and insults at each other’s faces, their eyes start lingering, their hearts start pounding, and the sparks begin to build into a fire neither of them can control. Starting college has forced both women to hang up their kilts, but when their local highland dance association announces a scholarship for a life-changing amount of money, they find themselves back onstage for one last season. Moira could never keep Kenzie’s icy glares from getting under her skin, and Kenzie could never hold back an eye-roll as she watched the crowds fawn over her rival’s happy-go-lucky charm. Raised as the shining prodigies of warring highland dance schools, the two grew up with blaring bagpipes as the backing track for a feud that took them all the way to the world championships. ![]() Moira and Kenzie are convinced the only place they’re a match is in hell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize.įorced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. ![]() Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. 'A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation this should be its future this is a new hope' - Chris Packham ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, flashes of dÉjà -vu keep Bourne in relative darkness. Hiding out in a hotel he kidnaps a lady doctor from Canada, then saves her from rape-death by his enemies she falls for him hard. Bourne is also a marked man-he's shot at before he even gets out of the bank-so once more he's on the lam. ![]() The patient eventually makes his way to Zurich, gets a look into his strange account, and finds that his name is Jason Bourne-and that he is associated with a phantom American corporation, Tread-stone Seventy-One. What's more, embedded on the patient's thigh is a microfiche of a numbered account at a Swiss bank. The head wound has left amnesia, but the doctor points out that subtle surgical scars show a completely revamped face: the patient had been on the run. Amid a storm at sea, a man is shot in the head and washes overboard-but he grabs onto a piece of wood, eventually is picked up by Greek fishermen, and is nursed back to health by a dipsomaniac doctor. Another dizzily preposterous Ludlum comic-strip full of hyperventilating characters, pell-mell intrigue, and barbarous prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the tradition of Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Anita Desai's The Village By the Sea, Confrontation is an incredible evocation of village life and of the consequences that come from political alignment and re-alignment. ![]() Seen through the unique perspective of the young Malay boy Adi, this fundamental period in Singaporean history is brought to life with masterful empathy. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, three-time winner of the Singapore Literature Prize, brilliantly dramatises the period of uncertainty and change in the years leading up to Singapore's merger with Malaya. However, looming on the horizon are political upheaval, race riots, gang wars and the Konfrontasi with Indonesia. ![]() The residents of Kampung Pak Buyung may not have many material goods, but their simple lives are happy. Selected by The Business Times as one of the Best Books of 2013Īdi loves his life in the kampung: climbing the ancient banyan tree, watching ten-cent movies with his friends, fetching worms for the village bomoh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While there, Ever finds herself thrown into a world full over-achieving kids- those exactly like her parents always hoped she would be. When her parents find her acceptance letter to Tisch, they ship Ever off to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer. Too bad her ultra-strict parents already have another plan in store for her: attend Northwestern University and become a doctor (never mind that Ever has an intense fear of blood). After being taken off the waitlist at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ever finally thinks this is her shot. Loveboat, Taipei is marketed for “fans of Crazy Rich Asians or Jane Austen Comedy of Manners, with a hint of La La Land.”Įighteen-year old Ever Wong wants to dance. ![]() |