A callow academic with a troubled marriage is invited to an English manor to study the literary legacy of his great-auntand wanders into a Ramsey Campbell story that turns into a Robert Aickman story with a touch of MR James. It's atmospheric and psychooigical and disturbing and verrry weird and I did not know there was a (different) audio version narrated by Kevin Spacey, well, now. There's a kind of haunting. What if your audio books were haunted by the ghost of a disgraced actor?

Ross Thomas audio books! And what a great reader! This is one I haven't revisited in a verry long time, an ex-stuntman who caused the death of a fellow stuntman is now selling cars and haunted by the man's final moments, but is visited by two very nasty men because someone wants him to find the dead guy who is very much alive. Complicated things continue to happen, most of them in Singapore, where there are murders, double and triple crosses and elaborate games played for high prizes.

Stefan Rudnicki isn't my favourite narrator, which is not to say he's bad, he's actually excellent, but his voice is not my favourite, which isn't his fault, or anyone's, but mine. This is a fantastic tale of an academic whose life is torn apart by an occurrence in an old house who goes chasing a folkloric myth through a series of wonderfully eccentric academic and historical circles, drenched with the atmosphere of lingering antebelllum and civil war memories. A small, perfectly-formed masterpiece of strangeness and suspense.

A real favourite, this story of a consulting detective and his faithful friend in Lovecraftian London pursuing the murderer of a German Crown Prince. Deliciously clever.

Sequel to Rabbits. People go around hunting for or being puzzled by strange coincidences. People ask each pther what they mean a lot. People have oddly specific favourite colours, albums, foods, films, actors, arcade games. Mysteries and enigmas and amazing things and places around every corner often turning out to be quite mundane in appearance but nonetheless are part of a sytem holding the multiverse together. Questions as a form of interpersonal dominance and control. And has a sequel hook.

Bad horror, the worst horror, seriously terrible horror - the real monster is the horror writer, and not just for his writing. Once more Garth Marenghi unleashes the horrors his literary creations on an unsuspecting world as his horrific literary creation Nick Steen unleashes the horrors of his literary creations on an unsuspecting world. Whether its crashing planes or getting kidnapped or being used in an abominable scientific experiment that grants him the power of a god to crash a plane, Nick Steen is certainly the viewpoint character for a lot of ths book. You'll scream with laughter. Until you die. Laughing. 

It's claustrophobic, fast-paced, disorienting, but the mcguffin turns out to be technological, which makes it a thriller rather than proper horror, though certainly the first half of the book has a haunted-house-in-space feel and the protagonist's propensity for seeing things that are probably ghosts of some sort, which ironically leaves her better equipped to deal with things when everyine else is being driven mad by visions, must be supernatural. Anyway, that's not a complaint, just an observation, it's plenty creepy and gothic.

The participants of a long running childrens' show with no surviving footage get together for a reunion. It's more complicated than that, and that's the really good part of the book as Val, who remembers nothing and has been kept at a ranch by her father most of her life, meets people who are supposed to have once been her best friends and discovers some shocking stuff about her family. Mysterious childrens' TV shows are very much my jam and this almost, but not quite, gets it. It ends up being quite oddly wholesome with a Stephen King style band of childhood friends finally putting their issues, of which there are many, aside, to face danger together. It's not unsatisfying, and it is dark and weird, but I kinda hoped for darker and weirder. Maybe I'm just being picky. Shouldn't be reviewing books based on what they're not, but sometimes it's all I got.

(That's about four books over two days which is a lot even for me, but I pulled something in my back, that's why.)

Again, more a thriller than horror, though maybe space horror is mostly space thriller with claustrophobia? It is a cracking thriller, though, fast-paced with great characters, and though I saw the twist coming when it finally arrived it fely more like a high five than a let down.

The Bronte sisters versus werwolves! Out on the wild moors!