RedEye has set itself a difficult task; produce horror that’s YA suitable but remains true to the needs of the genre. Lou Morgan’s Sleepless did an excellent job of showing how this could be done picking apart of teenage expectation and pressure with the twin scalpels of horror and insomnia. It’s a Hell of …
I work with horror fiction a lot, and it doesn’t so much breed contempt as familiarity. You’re on nodding acquaintance with were-things, you listen sympathetically to the vampires making 5 years out of date Twilight jokes, hold doors open for the haunted parapsychologists and the things doing the haunting that sort of thing. It’s like …
I read, for me, an awful lot of books this year. By the time the year’s done it’ll be somewhere around 40. I’m pleased with that, especially as I’ve hit a good balance between reading for work and reading for fun. I could, as always, broaden my horizons some but everyone always can and this …