What are you Reading this Holloween!

[Theli]

I'm still looking forward to reading more Hill, but I probably won't be tackling The Fireman for a while. Still have his older works to read yet.

Finished off Stir of Echoes by Matheson, I liked it well enough, but it didn't blow me away like Hell House had. Kind of oddly paced with a bit too much pseudoscience psychobabble. I did like the elements of insanity and self doubt peppered throughout.

Still reading Sub Rosa, and enjoying Aickman's prose. Also started up Clive Barker's Books of Blood, 3 stories into volume 1 and enjoying it.

[TacomaDiver]

.frankly, not even sure I would have splurged on the signed/numbered Goldsboro UK HC edition (with aftermarket slipcase) if I would have simply read first the U.S. trade HC.

If you ever want to part with this, I'm listening.

[RonClinton]

Count me in the camp of those who did not like THE FIREMAN -- and this from an ardent Joe Hill fan. I've loved everything he's done (though HORNS perhaps less so than his others), but THE FIREMAN was just not very good. I remain a bit shocked and puzzled, given my affection for his work leading up to this point and my excitement that it was to be a post-apocalyptic novel, but it is what it is. At least it saved me some $$ as I didn't have to dish out the big bucks for the PS signed/limited...frankly, not even sure I would have splurged on the signed/numbered Goldsboro UK HC edition (with aftermarket slipcase) if I would have simply read first the U.S. trade HC.

[Martin]

Sad to say, I did not like The Fireman. The idea that that book might be the last thing I ever read was too frightening to make me want to read anything new by Hill. I might read 20th Century Ghosts and Horns, but I'm otherwise done with him. But it did make me want to read The Stand again (the 1978 version) just to wash the bad memories away.

Moving on to The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.

Interesting. This one seems to fall into two camps, those who love it and those who hate it. I have seen only a few opinions in the middle.

[srboone]

Sad to say, I did not like The Fireman. The idea that that book might be the last thing I ever read was too frightening to make me want to read anything new by Hill. I might read 20th Century Ghosts and Horns, but I'm otherwise done with him. But it did make me want to read The Stand again (the 1978 version) just to wash the bad memories away.

Moving on to The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.

[Theli]

Polished off both Ghost Story and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Now reading Robert Aickman's Sub Rosa and Richard Matheson's Stir of Echoes.

[Martin]

Started The Fireman by Joe Hill.

I am curious what your thoughts on it are. The reviews have been mixed but I loved it.

[srboone]

Started The Fireman by Joe Hill.

[Brian861]

Glad they hooked you up with an ARC. I am looking forward to that one, happy to hear you enjoyed it.

Thanks, Martin. I'm sure you will as well.

[Martin]

Read the new book from Chizmar and Freeman, Dark Whispers. Thoroughly enjoyed it! And still making my way through King's TBOBD.

Glad they hooked you up with an ARC. I am looking forward to that one, happy to hear you enjoyed it.

[Brian861]

Read the new book from Chizmar and Freeman, Dark Whispers. Thoroughly enjoyed it! And still making my way through King's TBOBD.

[TJCams]

Yeah, you guys are reading some great stuff from the ones I recognize!

I just finished The Gods Themselves and loved it, so my next project might be The Foundation Trilogy. For October horror I'll probably go with A Mountain Walked.

I have a HC of this and started it, but couldn't get into it. Put it aside to restart at a later time.

I started Douglas Preston's The Codex on the plane during our short vacation to Las Vegas, so still picking away at that.

[Theli]

^ Love Smith, might get to that book soon too.

John, you're touching on some authors and books I am really interested in reading myself. When you're done your current reading any chance of a short write up on them?

[srboone]

I'm reading Barker's Books of Blood right now (I'm on Vols 4-6). I'll move on to The Averoigne Chronicles by Clark Ashton Smith after that.

[bookworm 1]

Just read Night of the Pumpkin man and Dawn of the Pumpkin man by Jack Beaumont. Now reading Indian summer by Rick Hautala. Then Falling leaves by Kealan Patrick Burke . Then I will be reading The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman and Norman Prentiss. After that we will see. Before the end of the month I will also be reading Four Halloweens.