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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, if you dare! As the world rolls haphazardly through space, ever closer to the Halloween Dimension, our Nightmare Factory book club prepares for the voyage home. Every October, we wait with bated breath, … Continue reading TONIGHT: Get the bejeezus scared outta you in the BookPeople Café
Did you make a New Year's resolution to up your reading game in 2016? What better way to kickstart your reading life - and meet friendly new faces - than coming to one of our free book club meetings? We have a dozen bookseller-run, totally not at all intimidating, super-friendly groups that meet once a month … Continue reading Book Club Spotlight: THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY
2015 has been a tremendous year for horror. Goosebumps finally got the film treatment it deserves, Stephen King released two new books, and Donald Trump briefly ran for president. Encapsulating the ghastly spirit of the year is editor extraordinaire Paula Guran's newest anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015. Within these pages lurks fresh and … Continue reading The Nightmare Factory Toasts 2015
As the daylight leaves the sky, and we unlucky fiends are illuminated only by the color out of space; as a dark shadow falls over a rainy, New England fishing community; as fear lurks and dream-quests are assigned to the unknown; as angles come together all wrong, we answer a terrible call, and the Nightmare … Continue reading TONIGHT AT 8pm: Nightmare Factory Book Club discusses Lovecraft’s Monsters
~post by Steve(n) W. As the fluorescent lights flicker and the recycled air goes swampy, as the corridors stretch endlessly in front of you, and you realize you may not be alone in the labyrinthine hallways of BookPeople, you can take grim solace in the knowledge that whatever fate may befall you is just a … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club MEETS TONIGHT
~post by Steven There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as Stephen King's bibliography and as timeless as Edgar Allan Poe's scary bird thing. It is the middle ground between a noble literary endeavor and a complete waste of time – between science and … Continue reading Nightmare Factory Book Club Trips the Light Fantastic about LAST DAYS
~post by Joe T. Guillermo Del Toro is a singular voice in the world of horror and dark fantasy filmmaking. As a director, he has given us films that are already classics on the genre such as The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth. As a producer he has helped shape and give voice to the … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 7 “Guillermo Del Toro’s Penguin Horror Collection”
~post by Joe T. It’s Sunday and things are a little slow around the haunted house. So, after writing about Clive Barker yesterday, I’m gonna take a little break and share a couple of cool links that have got me excited this week. I’ll be back tomorrow with some Guillermo Del Toro curated books. Happy … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 6 “Sunday Links”
~post by Joe T. From October to October is a 12 month period that defines the Horror Year. Halloween is a holiday that can act as both Christmas and New Year: some people only read nightmarish fiction during that one month, others use it as a celebration to kick-off a whole new list of books … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 3 “Bestselling Horror”
~post by Joe T. Ahhhhh, Day 2 of our 31 Days of Halloween continues our exploration of The Nightmare Factory Bookclub. Meeting the third Tuesday of every month, we journey into the heart of terror. Yesterday we gave you the books we read from January through June and now we close out the list with … Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween: Day 2 “The Nightmare Factory”
