Nightmare Factory Book Club discusses FLOATING DRAGON

Greetings, ghouls and monsters! BookPeople's eeriest book club, The Nightmare Factory, will convene on Tuesday May 15th at 7p to discuss Peter Straub's mesmerizing, macabre masterpiece Floating Dragon. We'll meet in our third floor conference room, the unsettling architecture of which inexorably refuses to comply with the laws of Euclidean geometry. Steel yourselves for a … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club discusses FLOATING DRAGON →

Nightmare Factory Book Club discusses ‘Exquisite Corpse’

I won't lie. The unparalleled brutality of Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse compelled me to fling it across my apartment at one point during my reading. I have unflinchingly sat through both Hostel movies and five Texas Chainsaw Massacres, but this grimoire of torture was oddly upsetting. The narrative weaves through the intersecting lives of … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club discusses ‘Exquisite Corpse’ →

Coven of Literary Horror Aficionados To Meet, Talk Books

Five hours shy of the witching hour (7pm) on January 17th at BookPeople, a sinister faction of horror epicureans will meet in the dark recesses of the third floor to celebrate all things corrupted and weird with a roundtable discussion of Fritz Leiber's spooky masterwork, Conjure Wife. With a premise so unwholesome that it tingles … Continue reading Coven of Literary Horror Aficionados To Meet, Talk Books →

Get Your Zombie On at the Nightmare Factory Book Club

~Post by Joe T. “It goes by many names: “The Crisis,” The Dark Years,” “The Walking Plague,” as well as newer and more “hip” titles such as “World War Z” or “Z War One.” I personally dislike this last moniker as it implies an inevitable “Z War Two.” For me, it wall always be “The … Continue reading Get Your Zombie On at the Nightmare Factory Book Club →