Welcome, dear readers to Halloween, when in the UK and US children dress as their favourite fictional horror characters (and some, misguidedly, as serial killers) to walk door-to-door asking neighbours for sweets (or candy). Haitian practitioners of Voodoo pay their respects to Baron Samedi, the Irish celebrate Samhain with the baking and eating of beer-soaked […]
I’m ashamed to say I’ve read fewer than half of these, but at least this means I have quite a lot of (unknown to me) books to seek out!
Eh The Ritual is a great movie, and I wish the movie had more of part1 of the book in it. But part2 of the book was …not the best.
House of leaves dosnt really deserve to be #6 on the list. Interesting book though.
What are your top 3?
I did quite enjoy the original novel of The Ritual but I’m surprised to see it take the number 1 spot. I’m also a fan of House of Leaves.
Of the 25 books here, my top three would John Langan’s The Fisherman (he is a superb writer); the Ligotti collection; and the Laird Barron collection.