#i blame goodreads

[reecethegeek]

currently reading him by elle kennedy and sarina bowen and i can feel the five star buzz already

#sarina bowen #elle kennedy #reading #current reads #books #queer books #mlm romance #hockey romance #i blame goodreads #goodreads

[sunshades]

Your sparknotes tags on my post got me and the mutuals making conspiracy theories about how Limbus fans never actually read Demian. You opened our eyes. Why do so many people insist book Sinclair is a smol bean sweetheart. Why do they never mention Knauer Pistorius and Alfons. I'm pacing around my room in agony

RIGHT. RIGHT. once you start noticing it never ends. the focus on his and demian's relationship as if it's a romance novel and not a bildungsroman that heavily relies on metaphor. the other characters being forgotten despite them being necessary for the development of the novel with emil's world is Expanding as he meets many different people that fulfill various roles in his life (and here. knauer always gets the axe first because in their dynamic emil's the one that's in a kind of mentor position so that doesn't jive with smol bean limbus sinclair LOLLL) idk idk it's wild. i stopped checking twitter cuz i wanted fanart of these silly videogame guys and i'd just be seeing the dumbest takes in the world about books i love and it was making me lose it. they'd never understand what it's like to sit on the floor and stare at the fire with my buddy and realize i've grown up.....

#ask the bell #limbus source books takes(tm) ive seen that never leave my brain and i need to have a laff about: #guy who just started demian1919 disappointed sinclair is a kid and not fighting a military group (GIVE IT A COUPLE CHAPTERS BUDDY) #guy whowasnt ready for dostoevskji complaining that raskol'nikov is boring as if he's not literally the worlds most neurotic man and going #through it all the time ever 🤦‍♂️ #guy who prolly analyzes media like 'why did they not simply' blaming all of wuther on cathy somehow. lots of em around. we'll see more soon #then i gotta give a shoutout to the guys who keep trying to analyze the plot based off their VERY MEAGER UNDERSTANDING of the divine comedy #and i wanna count the (shivers) metamorphosis goodreads post people too i just know theyre out there #EVERYBODY STEP BACK FROM THE KEYBOARD AND GO BACK TO LITERATURE CLASS!!!

[susansontag]

I’m sorry but how ridiculous do you have to be to get this mad at a middle eastern woman writing a fictional novel set in 1950s jordan about the treatment of women by men, even going so far as to suggest she’s some brainwashed-by-western-propaganda plant to try and confirm racist western notions of arab men. maybe you, dear reviewer, can’t read a book about women’s horrific treatment without worrying all middle eastern men are evil and projecting this onto others but some of us are very capable of steering clear of your mistakes with a basic knowledge and understanding of how patriarchy functions... 

#way to blame this jordanian woman for western racism and xenophobia though #I just can't believe someone wrote this #this may be the most insecure goodreads review I've ever read #tagged for #racism #btw #moth.txt

[historian-in-pearls]

New stack of novels just arrived. I’ve fallen back in love with fiction and it’s SO NICE.

#i blame my friends #and joining GoodReads honestly #february 2023

[alectology-archive]

Never do I feel the terrible urge to pick up fiction more than when I have tests going on

#I'm going to. cry. #me when tests are not going on: books? what books? #I've fallen behind in my goodreads challenge lol. it was only supposed to be 3 books per month. #I blame amol 💕 #text

[libertyreads]

#i finished my goodreads goal in four months #which is the fastest I've ever done it #but i blame all the comics #i still need to decide if comics count in my goal to read between 52 and 104 books this year #if so Im screwed #lol #booklr #books #bookstagram #bookish #book #goodreads #goodreads challenge

[asimpleram]

Tgcf is one of those things where it’s not media anyone in the circles I run in would enjoy. But it scratches an itch in my brain so good idk what it is

#a friend on goodreads said it was boring. I do not blame them that first 2 arcs are dull especially if you are expecting gay rep and get. u #the banyue arc. blegh ouch

[ncthandrake]

love how my reaction to getting the end of attack on titan spoiled was pretty much just “….oops lol”

#i honestly forgot i got like halfway through it last year and then just didn’t finish reading it even though i was loving it #surprised it took this long to have it spoiled tbh #blaming bad internet and my phone deciding to constantly lag while i was on goodreads #but i can’t even get a little annoyed about it i’m too tired just like in general #although i will say that i was genuinely v shocked that my boy jean was still kicking? #like huh? i was fully convinced he was gonna die at some point #i mean i’m happy about it because he was my favorite but still just like boy h o w #(and yes after my initial “oh ooops wasn’t supposed to see that lol” t h a t was pretty much my entire takeaway from the ending 😅) #but anyways gonna go restart it and hope i can be normal about it all 💕

[belle-keys]

Wait what happened in the dramione fandom

In short:

Book bindings are fine. But selling bound fanfiction is both illegal and unethical. The sales of bound fics in the Dramione fandom have skyrocketed (grâce au Tiktok) within the last year or so. People have also been selling art prints attached to the fics against the explicit wishes of the authors and creators.

People have been adding Dramione fanfictions to Goodreads despite authors explicitly asking them not to do that.

A very popular booktube girlie made a whole video reading and reviewing a popular Dramione fic. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's just that stuff like that has unfortunately invited a lot of people who don't respect the de facto ethical codes of fandom into Dramione fanspaces.

A few days ago, about three of the biggest Dramione fic writers announced they would be pulling their Dramione fics from AO3 and other places. One of those fics is "Breath Mints / Battle Scars" by Onyx and Elm, which is a massive fic in the Dramione community. Other Dramione writers have followed. A shit ton of fics on AO3 have been deleted or hidden, and more are to follow.

Also, many of the fic authors have requested that their works not be reposted if they were saved before deletion. So a lot of good work is now either lost or inaccessible to many. There's a fic distribution black market on Reddit right now like I kid you not.

N.B. I believe we should respect the wishes of the authors and not repost their deleted works. It's unethical to go against the express wishes of creators like that. I don't blame many of the Dramione writers for pulling their works or for considering it. Newbies have been mistreating their fanfics and they just want to protect themselves legally.

#dramione #dramione fic #dramione fanfic #draco malfoy #hermione granger #bmbs #fandom #fandom culture #dmatmoobil

[reecethegeek]

i just finished the summer i turned pretty and i'm rooting for jermiah

#jermiah fisher #the summer i turned pretty #tsitp #jenny han #reader #i love reading #reading #i blame goodreads #bookblr #booklr #book aesthetic

[preceriisblog]

THE ATLAS COMPLEX SPOILERS ‼️‼️

Seriously don’t read if you don’t want spoilers.

Okay so I think I’ve scrolled through all of tumblr. All thru Goodreads. Read all the terrible reviews and rants and still nothing has quelled my anger. I feel so rageful. Nothing has ever pissed me off more than this ending

How could Olivie Blake set up something as amazing as academic rivals to lovers, binary stars, meant to be soulmates in every universe AND FUCK IT UP? ARE YOU SERIOUS? HOW COULD YOU TEASE ME WITH THAT AND NOT. GIVE IT TO ME.

And the same with Novacaine??! At the very very very very least you could have at least had Tristan be the one who kills Callum.

and of course. OF COURSE. MY TWO FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN THE ENTIRE SERIES ARE THE ONE WHO DIE. are you kidding me? H O W DOES THIS CONSTANTLY HAPPEN TO ME?? AM I CURSED?

ALSO HOW ARE THERE NO FIX-IT FANFICS YET?? i’ve only seen like one new nicolibby fanfic on ao3 and like two new novacaine ones but that’s not enough to fulfill me??! what happened? did y’all rage quit (cannot blame a single soul??)

so yeah. I feel incredibly betrayed and I need to scream and cry and dig a hole and give Nico and Callum fucking Nova a hug in the afterlife because GODDAMNIT NO ONE DESERVED THEM

One last note: I have always been a Nicolibby shipper, but I would have been happy with a throuple or if Nicolibby had at least kissed once. But you couldn’t even give me that Olivie Blake??

I am shattered. I will never trust again. Use this post to rant about anything you hated about the book in the comments please. I am 100% a hater right now and I have no shame because that ending was downright malicious and fucked.

#the atlas complex #the atlas complex spoilers #spoilers #nicolibby #novacaine

[dorianwolfforest]

So I was given this response by a dev about the AI thing who I have since blocked, primarily for what I'm about to talk about in this post.

I want to talk about your right to absolutely be critical, mean, negative and angry about star stable online if you want to, and why that in no way, shape, or form is "harassment".

There's this saying in bookworld, "no authors in review spaces, reviews are for readers". Its intention is to say that, no matter how much you as an author want to know how people are reacting to your book, you do not go chasing down reviews because they're not meant as a learning opportunity for you, they're meant to let others know more about your product. You do not watch videos reviewing your book. You do not read through your goodreads. You do not intentionally seek out the two or one star reviews. You are, however, encouraged to find a friend who can look through the reviews for you, find positive or constructive ones, and give them to you.

If you want to learn how to improve for your next book, you make use of the beta readers. You make use of the sensitivity readers. You make use of the editors. There is nothing a review can say that will help you, because the book the review belongs to has already been written.

In a similar vein, I do not believe developers should involve themselves in fandom spaces. Yes, I will be overjoyed at an Ismael tweet, because that is Ismael's own space. That's his world. That's his presence, he's allowed to exist online if he wants to and Ismael is still allowed to talk about SSO on his account like how authors are allowed to talk about their books, because he does not go chasing down sso neg about his own work, the server upkeep. I, as the "reviewer", do not go into his tweet replies and let him know how much I hate the most recent quests or how bad a horse breed is (much like how I, if I don't like a book, don't go on twitter and tag the author to tell them that their book sucks). I save that for my space, the reviewer space. SSOblr, in this instance.

In our own space, as reviewers, we are allowed to be critical and negative about the product we consume, because we understand that it's about the work, not the people behind it. In many instances, we don't even know who the person behind what we're critiquing is. There is also the assumption, the hope, that the person will never see it, because developers, like authors, shouldn't hunt down reviews of their work, and if they do find something that is critical, it should be a standard that they either ignore it, or read it but don't respond to it.

We've had a grown woman on this platform beef with and publicly call out a teenager for expressing the opinion that the quests she made weren't good, with the justification that the review was "hurtful". Plenty of reviews have the potential to be hurtful, it comes with the profession. That's why you don't read them. Even then, no one who expresses critical thoughts does so specifically to upset or hurt the person behind the work, far from it. That's why we stick to our tiny individual corners of the internet and don't chase you down to tell you our opinion.

Within Star Stable Entertainment, the friends an author might use to collect positive and constructive reviews are your support team (which, unfortunately, isn't all that great. Hooray for being told to overlook antisemitism) and social media accounts. All you need to know about how people react to you and your work should be filtered through them.

If the person who used AI art feels targeted and harassed, that is on them. We didn't know it was even one single person who did it, you as a company singled them out to us so that we'd stop blaming you as a whole. Furthermore we don't know who it is, we physically cannot harass them. Who do we tag? who do we send messages to in order to harass them? No one. They would need to go on SSOblr and look through the tag after a massive controversy caused by them, purposefully searching for outrage. That's not on us.

You are fully within your right to have public opinions about the content you consume, and if a developer oversteps the creator/reviewer boundary you are not the one who should be apologizing.

#sso #ssoblr

[anghraine]

ncfan-1 replied to this post:

so apparently I'm blissfully ignorant, because I have no idea who either of these people are

James Somerton is a previously fairly popular Canadian YouTuber who "made" videos dealing mainly with the intersection of media and queer issues.

The videos were heavily plagiarized (very, very heavily plagiarized) and the original content seemed to mostly involve tacking on extraneous, inconsistent misogyny (often directed at things/people he now seems to have made up himself—he tried to obscure his misogyny by specifying "straight" and/or "white" women/girls, but this was a very obvious smokescreen for just hating women/girls in general). One of his (or "his") more notorious takes was that the boring, non-artsy, assimilationist gay people were the ones who survived the AIDS epidemic and that's why they care so much about marriage equality.

Another YouTuber, hbomberguy, recently posted a video about plagiarism that dealt a lot with Somerton's mixture of theft and bad takes, and it went viral (currently over 9 million views). So there's been a lot of conversation about that over the last few days.

Personally, I knew that Somerton was a plagiarist, misogynist, and generally annoying person because the YouTube algorithm kept throwing his videos at me and I dug around a bit, but I had no idea of the scale. And I find plagiarism itself interesting, esp as someone who has been plagiarized, so that's been a kind of fascinating trainwreck. (I keep saying "was" because he deleted everything.)

I only just found out about Cait Corrain's existence via a truly remarkable attempt at sabotage.

They are (or were) a debut author who was bringing in a lot of good reviews, a strong marketing push from their publisher (Del Rey, I think), etc—basically everything that could go right for a debut author was. Except the part where they'd made a bunch of sockpuppets on GoodReads to attack other debut authors, including authors represented by their own agent, nearly all of them people of color, while simultaneously using the sockpuppets to prop up their own novel.

They first tried to blame this on "Lilly," an unhinged Reylo friend they made up (to the point of doctoring Discord screenshots of them nobly standing up to Lilly). This was obviously a lie and they've since admitted that much. Their current explanation is that it has to do with their mental illness. I'm sure the explanation of how racism is a side effect of mental illness and/or medication is fascinating but I'll admit I didn't bother reading it. The whole thing mostly struck me as a sort of halfway-to-MsScribe situation, only with the stakes involving major publishers instead of Harry Potter websites.

As of yesterday, I think they've been dropped by their agent and by Del Rey.

#ncfan 1 #respuestas #general fanwank #not really an accurate tag for this but the closest one i have!

[how-mytearsricochet]

If We Were Villains fanfics - a thread by me

Since some of you asked me to recommend some IWWV fics in order to process that devastating ending, here’s my personal thread. I vividly hope  you're gonna enjoy it :) 

1. what is woven into the lives of others - helloearthlings - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 I think this is the most popular IWWV fic since the first review on Goodreads has posted a link to this story, but that’s only fair given that it is masterfully crafted. The story’s centre is Oliver and James' reunion, and therefore Oliver’s journey to find him.

2. you've got me wrapped around your finger (do you have to let it linger?) - orphan_account - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

This is a “what if..”  and explores how things could have been if the night of their last party -the one in the library, talking through King Lear’s riddles- Oliver would have figured out the truth in time and they would run away together.

I’ve read it an embarrassing number of times, and each time it has the ability to broke my heart in shards not only for the two of them but for the bigger picture of those six as a family (I’m a sucker for a good found-family trope and this one didn’t fail to deliver a heart-warming feeling with only using spare details, shreds of memories and careless laughter from a payphone at 2am).  

Also, there’s this brief inner monologue that perfectly encapsulates Oliver’s perspective and his ardent loyalty for his real-life Shakespearean Tragic Hero:

“I never blamed him. Forever, I will blame the plays. I will blame the theater. I will blame myself and I will blame Richard, but I will keep James safe".

 This is it. This is canon for me. I’d tattoo it on my skin if I could, there’s so much sentiment in these few lines. Also, can we please talk about the prose? "but the sparrow had begun to open its eyes, and I met James' glazed eyes with my own", it had me in tears.

 3. as if it were the first - Chapter 1 - crownsandbirds - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 This is another reunion fic; it takes place two years after Oliver’s release from prison, and in this universe, we found a broken James who is living -literally- under Alexander and Colin’s wing since his failed attempt to suicide six years ago.

 It’s written by James’s pov, which allow us to know the real reach of his feelings, how pervasive is his sense of guiltiness, how broken beyond recovery he is –“James doesn't self-harm physically anymore, but he doesn't think he'll ever stop looking for opportunities to break his own heart"- so buckle up for some angst -but really, when it’s not angst when we’re talking about two Shakespearean lovers?-.

 Bonus point: the story gives us an intimate view over Alexander and Colin’s relationship, a criminally underrated couple in IWWV in my opinion.

4.  the dead man's float - misandrywitch - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 Another reunion fic -yeah, you can practically sense our desperate need of a closure whatsoever after M.L.Rio thrown us under a bus with that last line- passed with full marks not only for its peculiar use of a theatre structure which resembles the original novel’s structure -enter, final act, exeunt- but also for the honest portrait of its characters. There are not cheesy moments nor big declarations of love, which is something that represents the original characters: James and Oliver never opened up about their feelings, not even in the end (M.L.Rio once highlighted the importance of Oliver’s answers to James, a simple “you know why”; not even in that moment, behind the bars, they can state their feelings for each other), they’re only capable of Great Acts as papa Shakespeare taught ‘em (aka: go to prison for a crime you didn’t commit. Aka: fake your own death in order to recreate the only non-tragic Shakespeare novel. Aka: ME SICK AND TIRED OF THOSE THEATRE KIDS).

 Despite the premise, I very appreciate this Oliver: long gone the insecure shy obtuse kid, we now find a practical man that knows what and who he wants, who doesn’t step back in front of a confrontation with James -but still, he would blindly follow him to the end of the world-; and I deeply cherish this James Farrow who openly admits and accepts that he’s not the flawless Tragic Hero the Dellecher decided for him to be, so he's finally free now to live his life according to his own rules and desires, that it’s okay if  he’s a bit coward; human.

 BONUS SMUT FIC - cuz sometimes a brief first and only kiss in the middle of a school play is not enough, no matter how poetic it was

no other companion - crownsandbirds - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 Christmas came early this year. You’re welcome

 Now, some secondary fics, shorter but still impressive

 1.     home is where it hurts - crownsandbirds - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 This is through Alexander’s point of view, and it focuses on the weight of Richard’s death, the motifs that led him to say that fatidic and excruciating “nothing”. There’s a lot of James and Oliver here; there’s this part that to this day is still impressed on my brain:

"Oliver and James were truly a pair of the kind Alexander had only seen in books, old classical books that talked about turning a river into blood and defeating Gods. The prince and his companion, Hamlet and his Horatio".

2. And Therefore is Winged Cupid Blind - Civilbloodoncivilhands - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

Set during the third year of Dellecher, the clique is in the middle of one of Gwendolyn’s classes; Oliver is oblivious, James is whipped, Richard is a dick and Alexander is the queer queen we all know and love.

3. Merely a Madness... - sapphicfratboy - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 This is a close-up on James Farrow's private life, from his first kiss and first crush to the encounter with Oliver.

 Something I really appreciated here beside the impeccable prose is the way the author sticked to the truth of the facts: the students of his father that used to slip in the library with him, Oliver’s love for old rock band t-shirts, James addressing his own father as “Professor” in a sardonic way etc

4. Maybe This Is Where It Ends (Take A Bow) - fathand - If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio [Archive of Our Own]

 A brief "what if..." if James would have gone to prison. Short but incisive. 

#iwwv #iwwv spoilers #if we were villains #if we were villains spoiler #iwwv fanfic #ao3 #dark academia #dark academia books #james farrow #Oliver Marks #james x oliver #queer fiction #mlrio #dellecher #we have to protect the gays #this was my heartstopper

[libertyreads]

Book Review #23 of 2024--

My Lucky #13 by Piper Rayne. Rating: 3.25 stars.

Read from April 1st to 2nd.

I'm going to try to keep this review short since I'm being hit with a migraine and looking at a screen will kill me very soon. I'm certain of it. I read this one in less than 36 hours so we know that I had a good time with this fun and fast read. But I'm so conflicted as well. I was loving this book up until the 60% mark. Up to that point, I would say my rating was sitting around the 4.5 star range. I was living my best life. But then they finally got together and it turned into a mostly sex filled story. That always happens. But this was a variety of sex scenes. Some were very fade to black, some weren't. Yet the ones that weren't fade to black also weren't the best. I complain a lot as an asexual who likes romances with spice in them...sometimes. Sometimes I like the spice. I also complain a lot about the kinks I don't like that get put in these spicy scenes. The scenes we did get felt so detached. I don't even know if this review is making sense at this point. Sorry. I just felt like the sex scenes in this one felt like the author didn't have a lot of experience writing them and was therefore embarrassed while writing them. Is this true? Absolutely not. Look at their backlist. But it felt that way. Which is weird. But there was so much this author got right. And for most of the book I was vibing, I was living laughing and loving. I loved the female protagonist's best friend. I hate that Tedi is probably never going to get her own book in this series. I feel robbed. And the guy in this one does so much so well. It's like a guy read all of the reviews for the worst romance novels and went "I'm going to do exactly the opposite of all of that."

Also, yes, the author did get some hockey stuff wrong. Will I continue to point this out with every single hockey romance I read? Yes, I will. I am who I am as a person. Am I also about to pick up another hockey romance to read immediately after this one? Also, yes. But brownie points to this author for not putting me off reading a hockey romance immediately following their book. Normally I need some space between hockey romance and today my brain said no.

#my lucky number 13 #piper rayne #hockey romance #sports romance #books read in 2024 #2024 reading challenge #goodreads challenge #goodreads #booklr #bookblr #bookstagram #bookish #books #I hope this review makes sense because I can't look at it any longer without my brain leaking out of my ears #I swear that Migraine Liberty is a completely different person than Non-Migraine Liberty #also I'm blaming the playoffs being less than two weeks away for my desire to read hockey romances #NHL #NHL Playoffs #Because it's the cup...? #lols

[forthegothicheroine]

Horror novel recommendations

@allthestoriescantbelies​ asked for horror novel recommendations, so I thought I’d throw one together to post on the blog! Largely focused on non-gothic stuff since I’ve already made a gothic lit list over here.

As a general warning, all horror books listed here will have potentially triggering material. If you want more specific trigger warnings, you can ask me or see if people have listed them on goodreads or storygraph.

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix: I know you’ve read this, but I’m putting it on the list because it is one of the scariest books I’ve ever read, about a teenage girl in trouble and the only other girl willing to help her. I’m told the movie makes it much more straightforwardly comic rather than horror-with-jokes, which disappoints me. I’m a big fan of Hendrix in general, though I know you (and plenty of others!) find him hit-or-miss.

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris: Another one I believe you’ve read, but for reference, it’s the best serial killer thriller I’ve ever read. Francis Dolarhyde is a much more interesting character than Hannibal Lecter, I will die on this hill.

We Will All Go Down Together by Gemma Files: Centuries ago, the Five Family Coven made a deal with the Fairy Queen, and their descendants have been doomed ever since. I could have just as easily recommended Files’ book Experimental Film- if you like one, read the other as well.

The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan: A schizophrenic woman has two different memories of her ex-girlfriend and the horror that followed her- was she a werewolf, a mermaid, or were both memories wrong? This is Kiernan at her most heartfelt and most accessible; if you like this and want to try her grosser stuff, read The Very Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski: A haunted house in a haunted film in a haunted memoir, written in a work of visual art. I won’t blame anyone who bounces off this, but give it a try!

Carrie by Stephen King: If you’re only going to read one Stephen King, make it either Carrie or Misery. I don’t feel like any film adaptations have captured all the aspects of this tragedy about a girl who deserved a better life and the town who didn’t save her while there was still a chance, including the epistolary format.

Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant: This novella was followed up by Into the Drowning Deep, but I found Rolling in the Deep much scarier. It’s brisk and high-tension to watch a semi-fake documentary team put together, piece by piece, just what the monsters are that pursue them.

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge: The Great Pumpkin, but scary! Seriously, though, if you are willing to accept the concept of a boy with a pumpkin head and a knife and a yearly child sacrifice, this is short and a lot of fun.

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones: Just an elk killed when some kids were blowing off steam. Just an elk damning the rest of their lives. (Jones’s My Heart is a Chainsaw was too sad for me to recommend as a favorite, but I am curious about the sequel.)

The Wolfen by Whitley Striber: I wanted to include a good werewolf novel on this list, and The Wolfen wins by far for interesting creature design. (The runner up was The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.)

The Auctioneer by Joan Samson: A very atypical entry on this list, closer to Twin Peaks than your average thriller. A rural town is turned into a capitalist police state when a slick salesman comes to see what they’ll allow him to do. It turns out, it’s a lot.

The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale: The only “splatterpunk” I’ve ever loved, this is an absurdist nightmare about a southern drive-in crowd who get stuck in a world with only the movie screens and each other, turning into literal and figurative monsters. Usually published with the sequel, since both are short, though I didn’t like the latter as much. If you like it, read one of Lansdale’s short story collections.

As always, reblog with suggestions of your own!

#horror #books