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The Nightmare Factory Book Club meets the third Tuesday of every month to discuss the best in literary horror fiction. Join us February 20, if you dare! Legend has it that there is an enchanted table in the remotest corner of the BookPeople café that, when approached with the proper reverence, bestows tremendous restorative properties … Continue reading Book Club Spotlight: The Nightmare Factory
The Nightmare Factory book club meets the third Tuesday of every month to discuss the best in literary horror fiction. Join us, if you dare! Everyone knows Thanksgiving is the most evil holiday, and the kitchens in the Nightmare Factory have had a busy month churning out dish after dish of greasy, grimy gopher guts … Continue reading TONIGHT: Better wear a bib to the BookPeople Café
The long awaited finale to the Justin Cronin Passage series, The City of Mirrors, has finally arrived. This is a title I've been keeping my eye on for some time. I would say eagerly awaiting, even. A lesser author would have lost my interest after a wait of three and a half years, but Justin … Continue reading The City Of Mirrors – Part 3 of The Passage Trilogy
In anticipation of the final book in Justin Cronin's The Passage trilogy, The City of Mirrors (May 24th), bookseller Sarah H. revisits the first two bestselling books. Justin Cronin will be at BookPeople on June 11th at 6pm! When Justin Cronin's The Passage was released in 2010, I only took notice because of the ravings … Continue reading The Passage Trilogy – Book 1
Fade in. A wide, exterior shot establishes the setting as a dilapidated, disused torture chamber of a bookstore. The camera pans up a precipitous and almost-certainly-haunted cliff to enter the swinging, batwing-style, saloon doors of the shop just as a deafening peal of ominous night-thunder claps. Following the camera's journey, we observe a nightmarish assortment … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club Descends Into ANNO DRACULA
Be forewarned, gentle reader, that even now there is a war raging for your spirit. On one side are the forces of Good, which seek to elevate thy very nature to that of pure, unadulterated light. Opposing all that, which is just and virtuous, however, stands the Nightmare Factory book club, who will not rest … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club meets TONIGHT
~post by Joe T. Dan Simmons is a man who has made a strong name for himself in both the worlds of horror and speculative fiction. His Hyperion Cantos series has won numerous Locus awards, a Hugo, and has been nominated multiple times for the Nebula awards. His horror fiction career has spanned from … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 9 “Dan Simmons”
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