Books

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‘The Laundry’ Series
Recommended – Who says nameless horror has to be relegated to dusty old academics and tortured artist types? The hero of the Laundry books is a deadpan programmer forced to work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service after he accidentally figures out the higher math that can call forth Great Old Ones. This genre-hopping series is simultaneously funny, spooky, and thrilling. Best suited for readers who like their pop culture scrambled up, like your brain after it’s been half-devoured by a demon from another dimension. More…


 

John Dies at The End
Recommended – The book “John Dies at the End” by David Wong is a metaphysical horror splatter comedy that’s written like a movie treatment. It’s all surface and action with almost zero internal dialogue, very little exploration of motivations or relationships, and not much of any of the stuff “appropriate” or “good” fiction is supposed to have. And yet it’s really good. More…


 

Infected
An otherworldly invasion launches its first wave against humanity by sending out tiny parasitic creatures that take up home within a human host’s body, then quickly grow and take over the person’s willpower, turning him or her into an insane killer. One angry man fights back. Against his own body. With a knife. More…