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Melanie is a prodigy with a genius-level IQ. Her spatial reasoning and grasp of complex social and behavioral structures are off the charts. In a doomed world, she may be humanity's last hope. She is ten years old, and today she is scheduled for dissection. The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Opens The Pandora’s Box That Is The Girl With All the Gifts
Artie Lange should be dead. With the sheer volume of heroin he's shoveled up his nose, hydrocodone he's gobbled, and scotch he's waterfalled down his throat, the ratio of his overall cellular composition must heavily favor poison over human DNA at this point. Any one of his overdoses, crashed cars, or nervous breakdowns should have … Continue reading At Long Last! The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Crashes And Burns!!!!!!!
In 1986, Clive Barker got his hooks into the fabric of our reality and ripped our fragile, human world to ribbons, revealing a gruesome order of otherworldly, psychosexual monks known simply as the Cenobites. Since their initial appearance in The Hellbound Heart, their scarified and ecstatic visages have haunted the world's nightmares through the Hellraiser … Continue reading Steve(n) W. Has Studied The Scarlet Gospels, Soul Is Lost (A Review)
There is a rumor whispered in the forgotten catacombs of BookPeople – a rumor that hints at the existence of an arcane order of depraved explorers. These phantom pilgrims are alleged to spelunk the haunted caverns of the world's most exquisitely terrifying fiction searching – always searching – for a more heightened state of horror. … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory’s Pinheads & Hellbound Hearts
Summertime, and the livin' is easy - Nina Simone Continued from Part 1...... So now it is May. The school year is winding down and the waves of heat that define the summer are making themselves known. Vacations and stay-cations are right around the corner. This is my favorite time for reading. Sitting on the patio … Continue reading Joe T.’s Summer, Summer, Summertime Reads: Part 2
Summer, summer, summertime Time to sit back and unwind - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince So now it is May. The school year is winding down and the waves of heat that define the summer are making themselves known. Vacations and stay-cations are right around the corner. This is my favorite time for … Continue reading Joe T.’s Summer, Summer, Summertime Reads: Part 1
Once again it is the month of May, the time when summer kicks in and the heat in Texas becomes nigh unbearable. It’s the time for tubing and swimming, watering holes and greenbelts. When we’re out, we want shade and patios, cervezas and queso; and when we’re in we want air-conditioning and comfy chairs, iced … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Loves The Paperback Release of The Girl With All The Gifts!!!!!!!!!
The basic tenets of sketch comedy prescribe a commitment to bizarre choices and the exploration of new worlds from unusual perspectives. In I Don't Care About Your Band, Julie Klausner demonstrates an extraordinary dedication to her comedic craft by applying those same fundamentals of humor to her romantic life. This strategy, like any comedy performance, … Continue reading The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Still Doesn’t Care About Your Band
Fraud by David Rakoff Through the eyes of David Rakoff, the world was an expanse of uncertain possibility to be mined for new experiences and unknown pleasures. All you had to do to reap life's existential bounty was look like you know what you're doing. Such is the thematic through line of Fraud, his Lambda … Continue reading Fraud: The Book To “Read” For The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club
Tonight is the night that The Nightmare Factory Book Club dons our black robes, straps on our sacrificial knives, and gathers together in the BookPeople cafe to celebrate the unholy ritual of discussing Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. To prepare ourselves, The Nightmare Factory has scoured the non-euclidean corners of the internet and found … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory’s Missing Links for March 2015
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