The Shining by Stephen King Fiction — Horror Heinemann / Octopus, 1981 Hardcover 308 pages This book…THIS BOOK…really did a number on me. Holy smokes. In case you’re not familiar with the story: Jack Torrance is an aspiring author and newly recovering alcoholic who has just lost his job as a teacher at a prep […]

‘Salem’s Lot (Illustrated Edition) by Stephen King Fiction — Horror Anchor, 2008 Kindle edition 674 pages **This post has potential spoilers sprinkled all over the place, so if you haven’t read the book but plan to, you might want to come back later.** Yesterday I told you the story of my mother’s experience with ‘Salem’s […]

Carrie by Stephen King Fiction — Horror Anchor, 2008 Kindle edition 194 pages This is Stephen King’s first novel, originally published in 1974. The book is about Carrie, a sixteen-year-old girl who is constantly ridiculed and put down by everyone around her, both at school and at home. On the day she gets her first […]

The Passage by Justin Cronin Fiction — Horror / Science Fiction Ballantine Books, July 2012 Mass Market Paperback 912 pages From Amazon: An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy–abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind […]

Breed by Chase Novak Fiction — Horror / Speculative Fiction Mulholland Books; September 4, 2012 Hardcover 320 pages From the back cover: Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives–fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don’t have is a child, and as they try one infertility […]

*Friday’s Five Books is a bi-weekly post on Between the Covers that highlights book recommendations from the reading community. In lieu of having a member of the reading community recommend five books for your reading pleasure this week, I am taking over Friday’s Five Books and giving you a Halloween edition. I have never been […]

The Becoming: Safe House by Jessica Meigs Horror — Speculative Fiction Jessica Meigs, March 2011 Kindle edition From Amazon: In January 2009, the Michaluk Virus swept across the southeastern United States, infecting nearly everyone in its path and turning them into homicidal cannibals. One month later, as Cade, Brandt, and Ethan hole up in a […]

The Becoming: Outbreak by Jessica Meigs Horror — Speculative Fiction Jessica Meigs, 2010 Kindle edition I first “met” Jessica (@JessicaMeigs) on Twitter when she was suggested to me by a mutual friend as someone I should follow, who enjoys reading as much as I do.  I quickly learned that she was writing a series of […]