Kathe Koja’s classic dark art novel Skin gets a new edition from Meerkat Press. Review at FFMB, https://flyingfiddlesticks.com/2025/04/09/book-review-skin-by-kathe-koja-meerkat-2024/ #KatheKoja #MeerkatPress #Detroit #fiction #horror #horrorfiction #novels #horrornovels #Skin
Excited that my story “Under the Skin” will be part of this impressive lineup for YOU HUMAN: Vol.2!
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Subscribers to the Sid Is Alive! newsletter got word about re-issues of my early novels, but they also received early word of some other book news and other fun deets. #horror #horrornovels #paperbacksfromhell #books https://substack.com/@sidneywilliams1
You Heard the Man
Okay folks. You heard what the man said. Stephen King thinks you should all read 11/22/63. Get to work.
Kicked off #SpookySeason with The September House by Carissa Orlando. It was a fun read, sometimes quirky and funny, sometimes spooky, sometimes heartbreaking. The voice was excellent. Very immersive. I didn't love the ending (which I'll elaborate on in a hidden spoilery post in a minute) but everything up to the last two chapters worked brilliantly. (And the end wasn't terrible, just not what I wanted, so maybe that's on me 
) Definitely recommend.
I really enjoyed Shaun Hamill's "The Dissonance." His previous book, "A Cosmology of Monsters" really blew my mind. That's always going to be hard to top (so creative and original!) but this definitely had the same level of world-building and fantastic characters that are easy to connect with.
Finished up Josh Malerman's "Incidents Around the House" this morning. He really nails the child voice of the narrator. Very immersive POV. And there are lots of super creepy scenes. The overall story is a little basic, like, if you took away the individual creepy scenes and the immersive voice, and just read a synopsis, you'd be like, "I think I've read this already." But the writing makes up for a lot, and it's definitely worth checking out.
Just finished Paul Tremblay's "Horror Movie." It was a really cool audiobook adaptation. There are pieces of a screenplay in it, and in the audiobook, those sections are done with a full cast as a table-read. They flub lines, and you can hear pages turning. It works really well.
Great story. Highly recommend.
I actually listened to it twice, back-to-back because the first time I was in the midst of covid and my fever-addled brain missed a lot.
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).
#20books20days 5/20 #bookstodon #StephenKing #TheStand #Horror #HorrorNovels
Finished reading Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak today. It was pretty good. It took most of the book to get to the part that made it unique, and that left the bulk of the book as a pretty basic haunting story (which is fun enough, but not groundbreaking.)
Still, a fun read worth checking out, and when it finally decided to be unique, it got suddenly really cool.
It's a little hard to talk about what I loved in Tananarive Due's "The Reformatory" without spoilers, but I'll just say, vaguely, that there was a reveal where I actually gasped, and a heartbreaking all-is-lost moment where I actually cried.
Montague Rhodes James [1862-1936]
Another impressive writer I discover from H.P. #Lovecraft's recommendation in his book "Supernatural Horror In Literature".
Jame's ghosts stories are so fascinating to read. Love it
With the completion of #BretEastonEllis’ third novel, #TheInformers, I can finally pick up #AmericanPsycho again, which I’ve been itching to re-read since I finished it over the summer!
I do not wanna work today. I just wanna keep reading more of #BretEastonEllis’s #LunarPark instead.
At least while I’m here, I can listen to #StephenKing’s #NeedfulThings on #Audible.
I do believe I’m going to make it my goal this year to read everything from #BretEastonEllis. I already have a #ReadingList thirteen miles long, but why not shake it up a bit!
I’m also planning on reading other books too, but I believe I’m going to make this a priority!
Well, let’s see how far I’m able to get today…
So, not only did I apparently order a #Hardcover edition of #LunarPark, by #BretEastonEllis, but I wound up receiving a #FirstEdition!
I’m very excited to read this, as this will make my second #BretEastonEllis novel, behind #AmericanPsycho. This one sounds wild!
I also strangely received someone’s paystub stuffed into the back of the book from today’s date, but in 2006. Must’ve been the original owner.
I’ve had this one sitting on my bookshelf for a month or so now. Now that I’m finally done reading #Ada, by #VladimirNabokov, it’s time to take on #TheEndOfAlice, by #AMHomes!
I have had this copy of The Complete Fiction of #HPLovecraft for a couple of years now and I’ve even read almost half of it, but I can’t remember what I’ve read and I think I’ll just start over and make this my October reading project.
In the past 36 hours, I’ve plowed through about half of #GeorgeRRMartin’s #FevreDream.
I’m really enjoying this so far. I’m ashamed that I’ve owned it for so long and have never bothered to even read it before now. The last chapter that I read with York telling his backstory was awesome and classic #GRRM!
I’m done reading for the night, but I can’t wait to get back to this one!
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