horror – S.B. Howell

Lost Minds, Wandering Souls 4 by George Adamczyk

Jun 21, 2023

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in 4 Star Books, Black Comedy, Erotic, Horror, Indie

Rating: 4/5, good I really enjoyed this book! It’s comprised of four short horror stories with plenty of blood, guts, and chaos. In the first one, “Emma”, a group of “party girls” get terrorized by a haunted virtual assistant. In the second, “A Grave Situation”, an abusive executive is dogged by undead unfortunates he took…

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

Dec 19, 2022

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction

Rating: 4/5, good Eversion is the mathematical problem of turning a sphere inside out without breaking it. In the 2022 book Eversion, the crew of a ship finds a mysterious structure that appears to be in the middle of that process of turning inside out. The protagonist Silas Coade, the ship’s doctor, is trapped in…

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Jun 27, 2021

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Black Comedy, Horror, Humor, Women Writers

If you’re looking for a comfort read with supernatural characters, look no further…

New Invisible Man is an Edge-of-Your-Seat Horror Flick

Feb 29, 2020

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sbhowell

in Movies

Rating: 4/5, good I have long believed that invisibility is the coolest superpower. It may not be the strongest or the most useful, and it may have some serious drawbacks (like we saw in the Invisible Man book with the having to run around naked in freezing weather because clothes aren’t invisible) but it’s just…

Best of Apex Magazine

Jan 26, 2019

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sbhowell

in 5 Star Books, Asian Authors, Black Authors, Fantasy, Horror, Literature, Post-Modern, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Surreal

Edited by Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner Rating: 5/5 This story collection totally blew me away. There are 21 stories and they’re all so good. The thing I like about them most is they’re all really unique. Genre fiction can get a little formulaic sometimes, so I think it’s good to shake it up. Apex…

Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari

Jan 19, 2019

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sbhowell

in Asian Authors, Classics, History, Horror, Japanese Authors, Literature, Philosophy, Short Stories, Surreal

Rating: 3/5, average (note: I’m rating my experience of reading this, not the quality, which is phenomenal because it’s a Japanese classic. It is beautifully written and painstakingly translated, but quite dry.) Tales of Moonlight and Rain in a nutshell: Ghosts of thwarted noblemen and mistreated women Decrepit thatched-roof houses Lovers undeterred by death Sages,…

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

May 6, 2018

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Surreal

Rating: 4/5, good I saw the movie version of Annihilation before I read the book, and I really liked it. The movie does a great job of balancing its horror and science fiction aspects, and has a lot of great terrifying and surreal moments. The book is more Lovecraftian than the movie. It has more…

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

Oct 21, 2014

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Classics, Fantasy, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction

H.G. Wells is my favorite author, but when I tried to read this in high school I had to put it down after a few chapters. The first bit of it is extremely slow and if you’re not reading it closely it comes off as very racist. I must have been really tired the first…

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