17 books read: 14 fiction, 3 nonfiction

1 horror expansion project novel read: The Necromancer, Douglas Clegg

2 new favorites:

• The Magician King (The Magicians, #2), Lev Grossman
• Night Film, Marisha Pessl

1 favorite reread: Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1), Kim Newman

best fiction read: Night Film, Marisha Pessl   

best nonfiction read: The Devil's Rooming House, M. William Phelps: the true story behind Arsenic and Old Lace

Thanks to painsomnia, I have spent many darkened hours this week listening to this novel, expertly and deliciously read by Jake Weber. What an odd, previous gift to receive from physical pain.

Deadly, sovereign, perfect

Dario Argento's Suspiria

screams and bright red birds, and astounding hints of hope, as the sun can, in an instant, christen the blackest sea

Dario Argento's Tenebrae

the edge of the end