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The Nightmare Factory Reads Shirley Jackson’s Classic The Haunting of Hill House

Fearfully huddled together for the indefinable comfort of human contact in the middle of the haunted BookPeople coffee shop, the Nightmare Factory Book Club listened, quivering mostly with terror but a little from the indefinable thrill of human contact, as something powerful knocked over the bookshelves. The candelabras on the tables flickered and blew out … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Reads Shirley Jackson’s Classic The Haunting of Hill House →

The Nightmare Factory’s Missing Links for February 2015

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 M. John Harrison's The Course of the Heart. To prepare ourselves, The Nightmare Factory has scoured the non-euclidean corners of the internet … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory’s Missing Links for February 2015 →

An Unforgiving Story of Gnosticism and Loneliness: The Nightmare Factory Reads The Course of the Heart

The lights flicker and dim before failing, leaving the Nightmare Factory Book Club shivering in the dark. That's not how it happened, of course. The lights were never on, or was it that they were always off? Were we indoors, or did the trees just make it seem that way? Did it happen in the … Continue reading An Unforgiving Story of Gnosticism and Loneliness: The Nightmare Factory Reads The Course of the Heart →

Tuesday night: Nightmare Factory Book Club reads 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz

Once every month, the sphere of reality that encompasses the cafe at BookPeople fragments and novas before collapsing in on itself and, to all but the most practiced eyes, seeming to return to normal. If you can read this message, though, you know that appearances can be deceiving, that time is sometimes more malleable than … Continue reading Tuesday night: Nightmare Factory Book Club reads 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz →

Horror Book Club Discusses THE KING IN YELLOW

“Tell me more about Carcosa,” the police investigators questioned the members of the Nightmare Factory book club one by one, “and this Yellow King.” Joe, absentmindedly crafting voodoo dolls from empty cans of Lone Star, took a perfunctory drag from his ubiquitous Camel Light and quid pro quoed, “I don't reckon you've got the right … Continue reading Horror Book Club Discusses THE KING IN YELLOW →

Nightmare Factory Book Club Howls At the Moon

~post by Steve(n) With the full moon this month coinciding with Valentine's Day this month, we of the Nightmare Factory Book Club were put in mind not of the transformative power of love but rather the necessary heartbreak and bestial desires of the werewolf. Every month, our lycanthropic brethren must divest themselves of their humanity, abandoning … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club Howls At the Moon →

Nightmare Factory Book Club MEETS TONIGHT

Good evening, everyone! Welcome to the Nightmare Factory Lecture Series! Please take a seat, as our lesson is about to begin. We were all thrilled to have Robert Bloch join us last month to discuss plagiarism in the Cthulhu mythos, and we couldn't be more excited for Norman Mailer's address on contemporary intoxication in letters … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club MEETS TONIGHT →

Nightmare Factory Book Club Discusses The Year’s Best Horror

~post by Steve(n) Just as it began – cold, tipsy, and confused – so too shall 2013 come to an end. The Nightmare Factory Book Club is honored and more than a little self-satisfied to close out the year with twelve ferocious forces of fiction in our rearview mirror. This was a year of cultists, … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club Discusses The Year’s Best Horror →

31 Days of Halloween: Day 10 “Pre-Lovecraft”

~post by Joe T. H.P. Lovecraft, in his seminal essay on horror fiction, Supernatural Horror In Literature, devoted space to many of his favorite contemporary or near-contemporary writers. These writers, perhaps due to their now association with Mr. Lovecraft, remain in print to this day. Here is a small sampling of some of the authors represented … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 10 “Pre-Lovecraft” →