Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Horror

  • Cover art for Fragments!

    I said in a previous post that I would share the artwork that was used for the cover of Fragments. So, here it is. It was designed by my co-author,…


  • Breaking News: I have published stories!

    I’m so very excited. Fragments was published today and is available for download or as print-on-demand from DriveThruFiction.com. Fragments is a collection of eight short stories of the macabre and…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Others

    This is the last book in the 100 Books in 2011 challenge and it is Others by James Herbert. A man’s soul is in Hell, tormented, and is given a…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Watchers

    Watchers by Dean Koontz is a story about the consequences of genetic engineering. A little bit. Mostly its a creepy horror story of nice people being stalked by horrible things.…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Pig Island

    I’m getting pretty good at judging whether what I’ve got left of a book will last me to the end of my commute. Unless, of course, the train dies at…


  • 100 Books in 2011: The Ghost Writer

    July’s book club book was The Ghost Writer by John Harwood. I was quite looking forward to this as the blurb was quite enticing. A boy, Gerard, grows up in…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: The Taking

    Dean Koontz is one of those popular writers who are considered to be technically very good and a few years ago I read Intensity. The concept of the book was…


  • Thoughts on reading: Slights

    Slights is the debut novel of Kaaron Warren, published by Angry Robot, that came as part of my welcome pack from joining the British Fantasy Society. The protagonist is a serial killer…


  • Thoughts on reading: Twelve

    This came to my attention at alt.fiction 2010. During a panel it was held up as an example of a perfectly good novel that couldn’t sell due to the market.…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Turn of the Screw

    Last year, there was a television adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and thus there followed much discussion of its horror and psychological twists. Well, what…


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