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Book Review: Pine
Pine by Francine Toon. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Pine, Francine Toon’s debut novel, is the story of Niall and his daughter Lauren, who are both trying to come to terms with the disappearance of Lauren’s mother. The novel is set in winter, in a small village in the Highlands of Scotland. The cover…
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Book Review: Starve Acre
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Starve Acre is the story of Richard and Juliette who moved into Richard’s family home to bring up their young son, Ewan, only for him to die suddenly at the age of five. The novel begins after Ewan’s death, when Juliette is still…
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Closer Read: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery is a short story by Shirely Jackson, first published in The New Yorker in 1948. It contains many classic folk horror tropes, and is an interesting story because of the way it fools the reader into thinking something else is happening, almost until the end. Warning: contains spoilers. The story opens just before…
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Book Review: Sharper Knives
Sharper Knives by Christopher Fowler. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Sharper Knives is a collection of fourteen dark short stories by Christopher Fowler, first published in 1992, during the earlier part of his writing career. Ranging from the punchy and witty Norman Wisdom And The Angel of Death to the lyrical and beautiful Persia,…
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Book Review: Devil’s Day
Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Devil’s Day is another masterpiece of folk horror fiction from Andrew Michael Hurley. Boiling the plot down to a single sentence, it’s the story of a man and his wife who return to his family farm for a funeral, and help with preparations…
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Book Review: The Loney
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney is a novel about two brothers who make a pilgrimage from London to the stretch of Lancashire coast that sits between the Lune and Wyre estuaries, known as the Loney. There, over the Easter period, they stay in…
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Book Review: Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Dolores Claiborne tells the story of a sixty-six-year-old woman who has lived on Little Tall Island all her life. She may not have seen much of the world beyond the island, but she has certainly lived through some experiences. The novel is narrated by…
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Book Review: Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. There’s no doubt that Stephen King is a master of his craft. Skeleton Crew is a collection of short stories written over seventeen years of his life, from just before he started college, aged eighteen, through to 1983, when he was in his mid…
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