Time flies. January is almost over and this is my first post of the year. Despite my best intentions Blog from the Darkside might be better named The Forgotten Blog. Never mind I have added a lot of new content to A Passion for Horror. At the moment I am very busy with the public…
Category: Reading
A Real Life Amazon Kindle Horror Story
I’ve just read a rather shocking story about Amazon closing someone’s account, without any warning, and then wiping all of the books from her kindle. Why? That’s a very good question. The lady in question wanted to know that as well so she emailed Amazon to try and find out. Several emails later she is…
The Screaming Skull
I’ve just been reading one of F. Marion Crawford’s short stories. It’s called The Screaming Skull and at the end of the story there is a note that says that it was inspired by the real life legend of the screaming skull at Bettiscombe Manor. I have been familiar with the legend for many years…
Daughter of Darkness
I received an email from Amazon today:‘ As someone who has purchased or rated books by Virginia Andrews, you might like to know that Daughter of Darkness will be released on 1 November 2010… I have indeed read a couple of her books Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind. But Virginia Andrews died…
I tend to read a lot of work written by the same authors. Once that I know that I enjoy someone’s work I suppose that it is only natural that I should want to read more of it, but I do try to read something different every now and again. Partly, I suppose, because I…
They Thirst
Last week I read Robert R. McCammon’s They Thirst. It is one of my favorite vampire novels. I love it and have now read it three times. Whenever I read a book I write the date that I finished reading it inside the front cover. I noticed something intersersting when I did so this time….
The Hellbound Heart
Last week I read Clive Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart. It’s good, but it is the book that Hellraiser is based on, so I suppose it is pretty obvious that it is a good read. I’ve only seen the film once and that was a long time ago and so I can’t really make a…
Lisey’s Story
Last week when I did a post about reading Tony mentioned that he had heard some negative reports about Lisey’s story. I must admit that he is not alone in that because I have too. In fact, quite a while ago, I read this in a forum (someone asking the members if it was worth…
Psychoville
The last book I read was Psychoville by Christopher Fowler. It’s a very good book and is one that most readers might enjoy. There are dark elements to the story, but there is such a lot more besides and it is one of those stories that seem to linger in the head a while after…
It doesn’t seem like five minutes since I finished reading the first of Stephen King’s Dark Tower stories, The Gunslinger. I decided then that I was going to read them all, but when I finally got around to breaking the spine on the second book, last week, I was surprised to realize that it had…