Chasing
Tale is a regular look at the e-books I've recently downloaded and
added to my to-be-read pile. Some are review copies sent to me, some
are purchases from Amazon's Kindle Store or elsewhere, and others are
freebies that caught my eye.
The
hits just keep on coming. When I started the year by summing up my
review request policy as "open season," I really opened the
floodgates. The summer was where my to-be-read pile skyrocketed too,
because I think the fall lineups for authors and publishers descended
on my inbox like a carpet bombing. I just have way too many e-books
to mention, so this will only be a partial list.
And
I really need to learn how to speed-read. Although, I hear that it
doesn't really lend itself to reading fiction. Anyone know anything
about that? I'm just kidding myself anyway, as I'm more likely to
learn a second language--or invent a language like Klingon or
Dothraki, that convoluted series of grunts on The Game of
Thrones--than learn to read English any faster than I am
now.
Ah
well, here are twelve books added to my to-be-read pile:
New
Moon on the Water by
Mort Castle -
One
of the first books on writing I bought--and in hindsight one of the
few such books I found of any value--was Mort Castle's OnWriting Horror.
Oddly enough, I haven't read much of Mort's actual horror fiction, so
when Dark Regions Press sent a review copy of this new short story
collection I figured:
problem solved.
Dungeon
Brain by
Benjamin Kane
Ethridge
- Benjamin
will be stopping by the blog in a couple weeks as part of a blog tour
to promote this new novel, about
a woman trapped in an mental ward with a menacing nurse and some
supernatural critters.
Benjamin
is on a roll it would seem, striking the iron with his Stoker Award
winner, Black and
Orange,
and carrying on from there. I haven't read his other 2012 novel,
Bottled Abyss,
yet so I may have to flip a coin on which to read first.
Mind
Over Mind by
Karina Fabian
- After reading and enjoying the superhuman anthology, CorruptsAbsolutely?,
one of the book's contributing authors forwarded along a review copy
of her novel, which features the character in her short story.
Hey, I enjoyed the short story, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for
this book.
The
Death Match (Dead Man #13) by
Christa Faust -
Oh
my, I am way behind in the Dead
Man series
from Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin. I believe Harry Shannon's
installment was the last one I read (HarryShannon's KillThem All,
I believe). I'm not sure how soon I'll get to this one. On one hand,
I really enjoy Christa's writing, but I'd like to catch up on
Cahill's adventures through the
preceding
books before
reading this one.
Dead
Souls by
Michael Laimo -
This
novel has already been adapted into a movie by Chiller, a channel I
frankly didn't even know existed (I wonder if it's the American
equivalent of the Scream network). In any case, I've never read one
of his novels before so what better place to start.
Wolf
Heart by
Michele Lee -
Paranormal romance isn't exactly one of my go-to genres, but I saw
this book from Violet Ivy Press, by Michele Lee writing something
with an urban fantasy milieu, so I'm more than willing to give it a
go.
Eldren
by
William Meikle -
William is an author I've been meaning to read for a dog's age. So,
unsure where to start, I had this book recommended to me on account
of it being a stand-alone title. Works for me.
Bleed
on Me by
Shane McKenzie -
The
second in the Abattoir Press novella series and it sounds like it
might be a doozy. A ne'er-do-well joins forces with a drug dealer to
save their slum of an apartment building from a demonic force.
Coooool.
The
Wicked by
James Newman -
ShockTotem has branched out from publishing short fiction and has
re=released a full-length novel. Well, they've never steered me wrong
in the short story department, so if this is a novel they want folks
to read, who am I to argue.
A
Lower Deep by
Tom Piccirilli -
I
was taken aback a couple weeks ago by news that Tom underwent brain
surgery due to a tumor, only finding out by a post on Jim McLeod's
Ginger Nuts of
Horror blog
about Crossroad Press offering to send 100% of the proceeds from each
purchase of one of Tom's books from their catalog to help with Tom's
impending hospital bills. A gracious gesture, so I hopped onto the
site and snagged this book, which has actually been on my wish list
for some time. Oh, and be sure to check out this Kickstarter campaign
too, aimed to help him
out.
Every
House Is Haunted by
Ian Rogers -
Oh, yes. Ian's new story story collection through ChizinePublications is due out soon. I'm a big fan of his Felix Renn series,
so I've very eager to read some tales set outside that universe.
Thy
Fearful Symmetry by
Richard Wright -
One of the stranger horror novels from last year that I recall
reading was Richard Wright's Cuckoo.
Now he has a new novel out.
I've no idea what it's about, but I'm optimistic.
A couple of these books sound like ideal
reads for Halloween, but I've got more than a few already on my
bookshelf--real and digital alike--that fit that bill too, so it will
be a real head-scratcher when October 31st comes around.
Have you got a book you'll be reading on
Halloween? Is it an old favorite or a new release you've been saving
for the occasion?
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