Five friends arrive at a decaying Heian era mansion in Japan. Two of them have invited the rest to celebrate their wedding and to spend the night telling ghost stories. Okay, I’ll play along. I think I’ve heard this story before, but it sounds like a good time. And it was. Though it took me a while to warm up to it, Nothing but Blackened … Continue reading Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
This is the second Lovecraftesque book I’ve read this year. (The first was The House on the Borderland, see review here.) Both The Twenty Days of Turin and William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland share a narrator’s P.O.V. and a godlike evil force that remains unexplained by the novel’s end. In both books the narrator is basically reconstructing historical events long separated from … Continue reading The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria, translated from the Italian by Ramon Glazov
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