Hi Folks! This October, I’ll be partaking in a Halloween (or horror, if you will) themed month here on Every Read Thing. So for all thirty-one spoooooky days, I’ll be making my way through frightening fiction and creepy comics. Here’s what’s on tap so far: Carrie – Stephen King The Ruins – Scott Smith Blackout – Tim…
A mysterious disease dubbed “the ‘gets” is ravaging the human population. Starting off slowly, it hinders your ability to remember where you parked or where you left your wallet. In time, it advances to the point where you forget to breathe and your heart forgets to beat. A new substance, believed to be a miraculous…
Tragedy strikes the United States and in an effort to rebuild society, terrifying new measures are implemented, stripping women of their rights as human beings. No longer permitted to work, own property and their identities erased, women have been reduced to their most basic function – carrying life. If they’re unable to conceive, they’re shipped…
After coming into a small fortune, a quiet closed accounts registrar named Mr. Berger decides to pack it in and retire. At only thirty four years of age and with countless years ahead of him, Berger decides to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. After a particularly frustrating evening with pen and paper, Berger…
Buying and reviewing single issues of comic books isn’t something I normally do (I think Locke & Key has been the only exception). I’m the kind of reader that would prefer to wait until the trade paperback is released and read it all in one shot. However, seeing as I have the opportunity to get…
Beverly Thompson is snatched from her garage in broad daylight, her husband gunned down in cold blood. A killer is on the loose and detective Sean Richardson of the Phoenix PD is on the case. When a string of murders follow Beverly’s abduction, Richardson and company struggle to connect them. Do the killings have anything…
My thoughts on Gillian Flynn’s blockbuster novel have been marinating in my brain for the past few days. I’ve written, erased and rewritten this review several times struggling to come up with what to say while cautiously tiptoeing around spoilers. Amy Dunne is missing, her home torn apart. Standard protocol in the event of a…
Detective Gabriella Versado is called to the scene of a brutal murder. A boy who had recently been declared missing is found chopped in half, his lifeless torso sewn to the lower half of a deer carcass. The crime, albeit an exceptionally grizzly one, is yet another statistic within the husk of the once powerful…
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