Beside an empty motel in New England stands the “Tower of London” in Vermont, built by the motel owner for his wife. A little girl named Amy grew up in a house beside her grandfather’s ruined dream, raised by her grandmother, who kept the many secrets their family was cursed with. Jason, a neighbor boy…
Category: Horror
Smoke and Mirrors: A jack-in-the-box, trolls, vampires, and twisted fairytales
Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors is a book of short stories written over the course of several decades, and the stories, while all carrying some element of sci fi, also span various genres from horror, to romance, to corrupted manipulations of childhood fairy tales and figures. In only 100 words, Gaiman obliterates our childhood perceptions…
The Shining: A hotel’s guardians and restless dead, and the power of a little boy’s mind
The Shining: A hotel’s guardians and restless dead, and the power of a little boy’s mind Some readers may be tempted to brush off reading this book for the first time, as a prelude to reading Stephen King’s new sequel, Doctor Sleep, because they have already seen the movie. That would be a huge mistake,…
A Cupcake and a Book 