The Haunted Stacks

reviews

  • podcast for you?

    Here is an hour of us talking about our reading habits for 2024 and our favourite books of the year. “I don’t want to listen to you talk for an hour, just tell me the books.” ok Bec top 5 (no particular order): Hazz top 5 (no particular order): Bonus book we both loved: The Read more

  • August reading wrap up

    August reading wrap up

    August was a record breaking month for me, both for books finished and pages read, not only this year but in my life ever. All it took was: 🙂 Anyway, on to the books, quite a lot of them have been good. Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen 4 ⭐ Bachelor style reality dating Read more

  • Blobby Horror – a surprisingly excellent Mr Blobby based horror anthology comic

    Blobby Horror – a surprisingly excellent Mr Blobby based horror anthology comic

    This bills itself as: A collection of cursed comics and illustrations from 17 artists who scarcely survived from their encounters with the Blobbed Entity  And it can be purchased for ten quid on etsy. Honestly, I purchased this as a semi-joke gift for my husband’s birthday; he is a horror reader and was young during Read more

  • Reading wrap up (Jan-June 2024)

    Since around November 2023 I made a change and a decision. The decision was that I’d like to eventually run a horror book shop (meaning that I’d need to be able to recommend books by dint of having read them), and the change was that I gave up the remaining social media I was on Read more

  • Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

    Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

    review by Bec This stor(e)y is set in a tower block in London, which is bisected into a half for luxury apartments for the rich, and a half for ‘affordable housing’ which is comparatively extremely poorly appointed and maintained. The entrance for the luxury half is up front, with a 24 hour concierge, where the Read more

  • The Necroscope by Brian Lumley

    The Necroscope by Brian Lumley

    review by Bec I have a lot to say about this book. The Necroscope is a story about consent, autonomy, spy shit, and a load of gross disgusting squishy necromancy. Part of the premise is that there are two ways to get information out of the dead: the first is to speak to them, the Read more