Alrightreads: Blood-chilling Terr-or

Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

2022 / Audiobook / 295 pages / UK

***

Be careful what you wish for. Sitting through a whole book of this joke is quite the ordeal.

Richard Littler, Discovering Scarfolk: For Tourists & Other Trespassers

2014 / Ebook / 168 pages / UK

****

The exhibits are strong enough to be gratuitously reprinted on their own, without a narrative desperately tying it all together.

Richard Littler, The Scarfolk Annual

2019 / Ebook / 136 pages / UK

***

Personalising the hauntological nightmare takes something away.

Various, Cthulhu Cymraeg: Lovecraftian Tales from Wales

2013 / Ebook / 148 pages / UK

***

Variably serious and intense travelogues.

Faves: Rhys Hughes' 'The Bicycle-Centaur,' Mark Howard Jones' 'Pilgrimage,' Brian Willis' 'Song of Summoning'

Ray Russell, Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Tales of Ray Russell

1959-69 (collected 1985) / Audiobook / 187 pages / USA

***

A couple of sadistic gems.

Faves: 'Sardonicus,' 'The Runaway Lovers'