I received a review copy of this novel for my stop on the blog tour at Donnie Darko Girl. Not only did the cover for Krengel and the Krampusz draw me in, but the synopsis was deliciously intriguing. I love it when Christmas and horror are mixed together, and the results of the mixture in this novel ...
I came to Frank Norris' 1899 novel, McTeague, in a very roundabout fashion. I was reading one of the late Kage Baker's Company novels, in which cyborgs rescue and preserve history and nature's treasures for the future. The cyborgs gather to watch the lost eight hour version of Eric von Stroheim's Gr...
Overall this was a very good book. At some points it began annoying me because the author used repetition to demonstrate several characters obsession with money and gold. Once I was able to put that in the background, the story itself was very enjoyable. It also picked up considerably in the second ...
I finished my Halloween read this morning. I give the editor props for introducing me to Victorian writers I'd never heard of before, and it is fascinating to me how so many published 70 books in their lifetime and then disappeared into obscurity. But, big but, most of the stories weren't really t...
This book merits three stars based on historical interest alone. It's not Norris's best writing by a long shot, that honor belonging to "McTeague" (in this writer's never-humble opinion), and it's further evidence if any was needed that the loss to American letters that Norris's death at 32 was imme...
Ugh. I felt like I wasted a lot of time reading this for what I ended up getting out of it. It just kept going, without much really being meaningful or interesting.
A must-read if you like your scares with a Victorian sensibility. I enjoyed every story in this volume, although one story which describes a human body's response to an infective invading organism, was a bit hard to get through. On the shorter side, you could probably finish this in a couple of da...
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