Thursday, 29 August 2024

Alrightreads: Shit-Yer-Pants Scary

Rhys Hughes, At the Molehills of Madness

1993-2006 (collected 2006) / Paperback / 187 pages

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This deliberately dark selection is more icky than creepy. The most horrific parts are the puns.


Various, NoSleep Classics – 2011

2011 / Ebook / 259 pages

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One overachieving literary show-off before we get to more expected fare with Bloody Marys and shit.

Fave: 1000Vultures' 'Penpal,' marisunday's 'Jesus Camp'


Mark Samuels, Witch-Cult Abbey

2020 / Audiobook / 186 pages

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Sink back into an ornate Gothic bath of blood and bones.


Eric Stener Carlson, Muladona

2016 / Audiobook / 290 pages

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Bedtime stories for cursed children.


Kat Ellinger, Daughters of Darkness

2018 / Ebook / 100 pages

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Credibly justifies the film's significance in the feminist neo-Gothic canon, even after the director admits he was primarily making bankable smut at the onset.