Thunder
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I think any lit horror forum should have a thread like this up and running.
I'm currently into the fourth and latest book in Christopher Golden's "Shadow Saga" titled THE GATHERING DARK. I think Golden has proven himself to be one of the best contemporary dark fantasists around today. I'm only talking out of my own limied experience, of course, but this guy's imagination is running overtime. In THE GATHERING DARK you have the world slowly being taken over by hell, with demons slipping through the cracks in reality for wholesale massacres and entire cities disappearing from the map of the earth into alternative dimensions of hell. You have all manner of hideous creatures and ghastly gore going on. It's up to a handful of powerful magicians and good-guy vampires to save the day. This is a really cool book that is a riot to read if you can go for this stuff.
Can be read on its own but if you are keen on dropping into this universe where magic and the supernatural co-exist with our political reality you should start with the first in the series, OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS. Highly recommended.
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"My associate has denied christ
Earthly, heavenly, and hellish.
The only guiding light
To you who rejoice to see blood flow"
-- R. Nattefrost (Lunar Nights)
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SpiritofMyers25
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Reged: 11/24/03
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Right now, I'm reading one of Stephen King's short story collections, Four Past Midnight which has The Landgoliers, Secret Window; Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, and The Sun Dog.
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Sicky
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I don't read much, but there is one book which I read from
every day, you can see it as my bible. It the "Book of the
Black Earth", the "Book of the Dead", alias "The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
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Stoop not down, therefore
Unto the Darkly Shining World
Where the ABSU lies in Dark Waters
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cryingcrows
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Right now I am reading Major Tales and Poems by Poe. It is really good because it has poe's best work and alot of his veary best poems, but the book you are reading sounds good.
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"The agony of my soul found vent in one loud,long and final scream of despair."
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Warlord
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Quote:
I don't read much, but there is one book which I read from
every day, you can see it as my bible. It the "Book of the
Black Earth", the "Book of the Dead", alias "The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
I have trouble reading Lovecraft. Right now, i'm reading Cujo by Stephen King. I might read some more Robert E. Howard later on.
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Jester's tears, they are inside me.
Agony's the script for my Requiem.
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ManowarKills
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Im reading "Confessions of a Yakuza" forgot the author, but he is a doctor who would visit is patient every week and talk to him, the author writes the stories he is told. I guess its true too. So far so good.
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koroshiya1
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reading battle royale.
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Fenril
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Reged: 06/25/03
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Loc: Mexico City, Mexico
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"The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
Both The Necronomicon and its writer, Abdul, are literary inventions from Lovecraft, including the essay were he reveals the story of the Necronomicon (he's writing a fictional essasy, in the vein of Borges and other fantasy writers). All books claiming to be the Necronomicon were written after Lovecraft's dead, trough it's not clear who wrote most of them (the writers from Lovecraft's circle, perhaps?)
I'm currently reading Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh, and Paradise Lost, by John Milton. The latter concerns the adventures of Satan before the creation of mankind and Eve's discovery of reason (which then leads to damnation). Very good... Trainspotting is also good, but somehow not as fun (or as funny) as the movie.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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Fenril
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Reged: 06/25/03
Posts: 369
Loc: Mexico City, Mexico
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Of the books you have mentioned:
- Four past midnight --very good nouvelles, here. Not as good as "Different Seasons" IMHO, but worth checking out. I especially liked "The library policeman" --very disturbing in places.
- Cujo. The first King novel I ever read... very fast-paced (has no chapters at all!) and a lot more character-driven that you'd expect from what is supposedly a "killer dog" story. Appropiately nasty ending, too.
- Battle Royale. Quite good, trough the english translation is a bit hard to follow. I'm reading it in paralell to the manga version that Tokyopop is getting out, so right now I'm up to the beggining of part III [The part that opens with Sugimura vs. Mitsuko.] Very nasty, yet very human.
I haven't read any of the others... "Confessions of a Yakuza" sounds quite interesting. The tile alone makes me interested.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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Thunder
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 04/19/02
Posts: 177
Loc: Oslo, Norway
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CUJO is the only early King novel that I've yet to read. The book has been sitting in my shelf for many years now. Looking forward to getting into this one sometime.
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"My associate has denied christ
Earthly, heavenly, and hellish.
The only guiding light
To you who rejoice to see blood flow"
-- R. Nattefrost (Lunar Nights)
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JNewman
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Reged: 08/13/03
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Loc: NC
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Currently reading:
- SIMS, by F. Paul Wilson (more sci-fi than his usually thriller/crime/horror stuff, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it . . . anything by Wilson is a treat)
- THE DEVIL IN GREY, by Graham Masterton (God, I love this guy's stuff . . . he's quickly moving toward the very top of my "Favorite Authors" list)
- LONG HORN, BIG SHAGGY by Steve Vernon (think "RE-ANIMATOR in the Old West" to get a feel for this whacky novella . . . not quite what I expected, but I'm diggin' it for the most part)
Will probably be starting SPIRAL in a day or two (by the author of the original RINGU novel) . . . looking forward to that one!
James
http://www.james-newman.com
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Hellraiser_
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Reged: 12/03/03
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Loc: Maine
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Carrie would have to be my fav King novel.
I am currently reading The Drawing of The Three by SK.
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Warlord
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Thanks for the Lovecraft Explaination.
Anyway, I've finished Cujo, depressing really. I'm not reading Lord of the Isle by David Drake. Not horror, but It'll do.
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Jester's tears, they are inside me.
Agony's the script for my Requiem.
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count_dragula
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Reged: 12/07/04
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Loc: upstate ny
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sadly i've depleated all the king novels i hadn't read except for, his book on writeing, and danse macbre.(BLAST!) so i've recently started reading konntzs ,who i had never been able to get into before. now after reading the bad place i'm hooked on him,(go figure) i just finished servents of the twilight(excallent!) and am about to start strangers. if you are like me and could never gat into him before, give the bad place a try.it's a gret read and might help turn you on to koontzs.
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Fenril
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I've finished Cujo, depressing really.
Yeah, that's exactly what I liked about it.
Just finished "Julia", by Peter Straub... not quite as good as most of his latter work, but a Damn Spooky novel in its own right. Talk about your twisted developments...
As for Koontz... I have never got into him and have never read "The bad place". I have, however, read "Servants of twilight"... I found it far too naive for my tastes. I dunno, I have read a couple of his novels and one or two of his short stories, and he just doesn't seem my kind of writer. He strikes me as the Steven Spielberg of horror literature: skilled but too childish for his own good.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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ManowarKills
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Reged: 10/20/03
Posts: 1081
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Yes! I never post in on this forum topic. But right now im reading the "Battle Royale" novel, and it is awesome!
Read it before you see the movie is what I recommend because when I read the book I keep picturing he movie.
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MrShades
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Reged: 11/20/04
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Loc: Salzburg
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just reading Clive barker's Books of Blood I-III.
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"They say that i have shed innocent blood. But what is blood good for, if not for shedding?"
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Thunder
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 04/19/02
Posts: 177
Loc: Oslo, Norway
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Are you reading THE BOOKS OF BLOOD for the first time? If so I envy you. I think it is the best horror fiction ever! Or at least when I first read them it was.
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"My associate has denied christ
Earthly, heavenly, and hellish.
The only guiding light
To you who rejoice to see blood flow"
-- R. Nattefrost (Lunar Nights)
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Knifey
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Reged: 06/20/04
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I just dove into Stephen Kings IT, having read much of his work over the years, but somehow I never got to this gem. I'm about half through, and , as is usually the case, it is MUCH, much better than the movie.
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"You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."
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Thunder
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 04/19/02
Posts: 177
Loc: Oslo, Norway
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Reading THE SILMARILLION by Tolkien. I like this one even better than THE LORD OF THE RINGS, but I think because I read "Rings" I appreciate this tale of the first age of Middle Earth even more.
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"My associate has denied christ
Earthly, heavenly, and hellish.
The only guiding light
To you who rejoice to see blood flow"
-- R. Nattefrost (Lunar Nights)
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ManowarKills
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Reged: 10/20/03
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Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes. So far very interesting.
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EdgarAllen
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On Basilisk Station by David Webber, it's military sci-fi. It's okay, but having trouble really getting into it. I'd call it a cross between Space: Above and Beyond and Star Trek: Voyager as the book focuses on the female captain of a warship.
Also currently reading Ultimate X-Men graphic novel #6. The Ultimate X-Men comics I've read have been pretty good so far, some of my favorite stuff from Marvel in the last several years.
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"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
-Psalms 91:5-6
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ManowarKills
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2001 Space oddessy. nevxt up, i am readin Judge Dredd
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EdgarAllen
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Cool, I've read all of Clarke's Space Odyssey novels. I mostly read 2001 so I could get a clearer understanding of the last part of the movie. Excellent book, excellent series. I wasn't crazy about the direction he went with 3001, the last book. Thought he took what was a brilliant concept and made it somewhat uninspired and negative. Didn't really fit in with the vibe or the message of the first three novels.
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"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
-Psalms 91:5-6
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ReAnimator
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"The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice....brilliant 
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Fenril
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Loc: Mexico City, Mexico
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Currently reading "Houses without doors", by Peter Straub, a pseudo collection of short stories (I say pseudo because of the way he arranged them)... Very disturbing, as is the case with Straub's best work, but some of the stories seem a bit too drawn out.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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Citizen_Tallee
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I'm just starting to re-read 'The White Hotel'... and I know there must be some D. M. Thomas fans around here! Let's see a show of hands now! 
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Keep it bloody, keep it sick, and keep the gore flowing!
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Ginger_Snaps
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Yeah, D.M. Thomas!
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"B, I just got the curse."
"Ew."
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Hellraiser_
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Where Serpents Lie
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EdgarAllen
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UNDERBOSS by Peter Maas. It's a bio of Sammy The Bull Gravano who eventually testified against godfather John Gotti. That evidence finally put Gotti away after years of unsuccessful attempts by the FBI to imprison him.
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"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
-Psalms 91:5-6
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Hellraiser_
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Posts: 1314
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The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
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We'll tear your soul apart.
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EdgarAllen
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One of my favorite horror lit threads, lets resurrect it.
Currently reading WOLVES OF THE CALLA, DARK TOWER V.
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"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
-Psalms 91:5-6
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Fenril
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Posts: 369
Loc: Mexico City, Mexico
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Recently read ENDLESS NIGHT, by Richard Laymon... frankly, this is the first time Laymon dissapointed me, but that may have been because of the book's reputation (often heralded as one of Laymon's best). It wasn't bad at all, it's just that it was far more dark comedy than horror per se (even through it has a cult of serial killers and a very nasty ending).
Currently reading MUSEUM OF TERRORS, a series of short stories by Jinwo Ito (UZUMAKI, GYO), mostly about "Tomie", a girl who remains young and beutiful throughout years. Unfortunately for her, her admirers invariably wind up killing her. And unfortunately for them, Tomie always comes back with gory revenge in her mind...
Very good, definitely recommended for fans of japanese horror.
P. S. Nice hearing from you again, EdgarAllen, we haven't heard from you in ages... Hope your books are going allright.
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Laurie Birgham took an axe,
gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave his girlfriend forty-one.
--Joan Crawford's Strait-jacket
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Scorpio
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Loc: Chicago
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I've been keeping a list this year of everything I've read and am currently reading. I thought it would be cool to look back at the end of the year and feel a bit of accomplishment. I really started to read like a madman this year. In order:
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (re-read)
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
England, England - Julian Barnes
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton (re-read)
The Anna Strong Chronicles: The Becoming (Book 1) - Jeanne Stein
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway (re-read)
Stardust - Neil Gaiman (re-read)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Anna Strong Chronicles: Blood Drive (Book 2) - Jeanne Stein
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
I am Legend (and other shorts) - Richard Matheson
American Gods - Neil Gaiman (re-reading)
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And when night darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. - Milton
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Brandon
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I'm currently reading Caleb Carr's The Alienist. I'm only about 200 pages in, but I love the tone. Very dark and atmospheric. It reads almost like a classic.
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kamikaze_zombie
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Loc: Canada
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Tales of Imagination and Mystery by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Bruce Campbell has a P.H.D......in kicking your ass!!
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