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It's all one case: James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential (1990)

James Ellroy's treatment of homosexuals and serial killers in The Big Nowhere

Affect Horror in This Storm by James Ellroy (2019)

James Ellroy's Battle of Los Angeles

A dog hungered for dog: The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall (1966)

Define, infiltrate and destroy: The Warsaw Document by Adam Hall (1971).

You’ve got to mind your fingers when you give a dog a bone: The Striker Portfolio by Adam Hall (1968)

The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall

The Kobra Manifesto by Adam Hall (1976)

Carnage: 61 Hours by Lee Child (2010)

Complete Continental Op 2. The Early Years 2: It and Other Stories

Complete Continental Op 1. The Early Years 1: Arson Plus and Other Stories

Richard Stark's finale

No fun in the dark: The Soft Whisper of the Dead by Charles L. Grant (1982).

Dorian Gray and The New Aestheticism

Reading: Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle

Reading: Frank Belknap Long

9 stories from The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII. Edited by Karl Edward Wagner (1984).

"The Depths" by Ramsey Campbell [1982]

10 Stories from The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XI. Edited by Karl Edward Wagner (1983)

A reader's imp of the perverse

Comeback by Richard Stark (1997)

Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season by Norman Partridge (2010)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962)

Bradbury's The Halloween Tree (1972)

Appointment in Philippi?

First and second thoughts: The October Country by Ray Bradbury (1955).

11 stories from H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself (2006)

Seven tales from American Supernatural Tales edited with an introduction by S. T. Joshi (2007)

Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne: Halloween Silhouettes

....but the autumn! It called up a fear of darkness, drove one to an evening prayer....

Rereading: The Terror by Arthur Machen

The Folk: No-Man's Land by John Buchan (1899).

Stranger U.S. True Paranormal Stories from the United States

Stranger Bridgerland: True Paranormal Stories from Northern Utah

50 Years of Stephen King: Uncle Otto's Truck

Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to you, my Lad by M. R. James

A View From a Hill by M. R. James

The Mezzotint by M. R. James

Dickson McCunn 1-3 by John McCunn

Coming events cast their shadows before them: Come Into My Parlour by Dennis Wheatley (1946).

The solace of our declining years: The Return of Bulldog Drummond by H.C. McNeile

Hallowe'en by Conrad Aiken

The lonesome death of Charlie Rhodes: Salem's Lot by Stephen King

The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford

"A Vignette" by Montague Rhodes James

A lover's quarrel with the world: The Best of Robert Bloch

Players and Familiars: thoughts on A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (1993).

50 years of Dean Koontz: Night Chills (1976)

50 Years of Dean Koontz: Shadowfires (1987)

Sometimes we forget to blink: The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein (1984)

Reading: The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein - Book Nine: McKinney's Neck

Reading: The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein - Book Eight: The Test

Reading: The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein: Book Six: The Green Ceremony

Reading: Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1940

Reading: The Ceremonies Book Three: The Call

Reading: The Ceremonies: Midsummer

"The Events at Poroth Farm" by T. E. D. Klein (1972)

O'Connor on Hemingway

Something to be haunted by: "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker (1985)

"A Maze for the Minotaur" by Reggie Oliver (2019)

The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life [Underlinings pages 9-49]

50 Years of Stephen King: From a Buick 8 (2002)

50 Years of Stephen King: Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982, The Viking Press)

If It Bleeds by Stephen King (2020) [50 Years of Stephen King]

Boogens laugh last

Lovecraftian horror in Maple White Land

Re-reading The Lost World by Sir A. Conan Doyle

Re-reading The Lost World by Michael Crichton (1995)

Where the cross is made: Grave Descend by Michael Crichton writing as John Lange (1970)

Rereading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)

“Siri, should we be worried?” Devolution by Max Brooks (2020)

A tale from the Innsmouth diaspora: "The Taint" by Brian Lumley (2005)

Funny sort of thing: Brian Lumley's Screaming Science Fiction

For the safety and sanity of the world: The Burrowers Beneath by Brian Lumley (1974)

The Second Wish and Other Exhalations by Brian Lumley: Reading notes

The Compleat Crow by Brian Lumley: Review and notes

Reading: The Whisperer and Other Voices By Brian Lumley (2000, Tor)

6 stories from The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women

A CHUDiad? Horror's history of New York City in Clive Barker's "The Midnight Meat Train" and Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below"

Uncanny Vickers and Punshon: 5 stories from The Uncanny Stories Megapack

Harmonies de l’Enfer: The Legacy of Erich Zann by Brian M. Stableford (2010)

2 stories by Ralph Adams Cram

"The Vacant Lot" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Pseudopoddities : 6 stories from A Mountain Walked

8 Stories from The Big Book of Ghost Stories

Tales from the Haunted House by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

A note on "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" by Scott Nicolay (2014, Fedogan & Bremer)

8 stories from Year's Best Horror Stories 1982

5 stories from Year's Best Horror Stories 1981

Folk horror nightmare: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

7 stories from Year's Best Horror Stories 1979

8 stories from Year's Best Horror Stories 1980

6 stories from Year's Best Horror Stories 1978

A Cornish horror out of Africa: an outline

Year's Best Horror Stories 1976

Strange stories of Edith Wharton

Nine stories from The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1995)

Six stories from Dead Water and Other Weird Tales by David A. Sutton (2015)

The Subletting of the Mansion by Dion Fortune (1926).

"The Place of Revelation" by Ramsey Campbell (2003).

Drinking the ether again: three stories from Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday edited by Italo Calvino (1983)

Some regret was manifest: August Derleth tries M.R. James on for size.

Spenser tropes: Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker

God Save the Child by Robert B. Parker (1974)

The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker (1973)

Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty (1999)

Re-reading Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess (1980)

Romney Pringle: A rival of S.H.

Nine stories from Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fear and Trembling (1948)

The Shimmer by David Morrell (2009)

David Morrell: Past and present

David Morrell: Fin de siècle

David Morrell: 3 Cavanaugh stories

David Morrell: 3 novellas

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron (2013)

Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron (2010)

Mosquito horror in Journey by James Michener (1989)

Past Tense by Lee Child (2018, Delacorte Press)

When Worlds Collide (1933) by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron (2008)

Swift to Chase by Laird Barron (2016)

Flight or Fright Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent [Scribners, 2019]

To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin

50 years of Stephen King: Just After Sunset (2008)

50 years of Stephen King: Everything's Eventual (2001)

Wasp (1957) by Eric Frank Russell

50 years of Stephen King: Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)

50 years of Stephen King: Six Stories (Philtrum Press, 1997)

50 Years of Stephen King: The Long Walk by Stephen King (1979)

50 years of Stephen King: Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (1985)

50 years of Stephen King: Night Shift by Stephen King (1978)

Strange glory: The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson (1969)

Excerpts/reading notes: The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson (1969)

Brain experiments to expand human consciousness in Arthur Machen and Colin Wilson: Excerpts

Absurd bad news: rereading The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson (1967)

The Grey Man of Ben MacDhui

Was Count Magnus a Space Vampire?

Place of rath: reading Wylding Hall By Elizabeth Hand [2014]

Ice water through the chambers of the heart: Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear Forged Fables By Ronald Kelly