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May 2010

May 2010 Leisure Horror Book Club: The Bridge

May 25, 2010
This entry is part 3 in the series The 2010 Leisure Horror Book Club

Earlier this month I started a series of posts spotlighting the horror novel releases you can get from the Leisure Horror Book Club. This post begins a second series that travels backward in time, reviewing books I’ve already received.

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Mystery and Thriller Awards Bleed Horror

May 24, 2010

Something I noticed this year is that several works of horror literature or works which use horror tropes have made the short lists for literary awards like the Edgars, the ITW Thriller Award and others.

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Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

May 23, 2010

While I was working on the Shirley Jackson Award nominations, I came across a horror short story collection with the unlikely title of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

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Give 200 Best Horror Books . . . sort of

May 21, 2010

This post is, by almost any metric, the most popular on …With Intent to Commit Horror. I’m not sure why. If you have an idea why that is, please feel free to talk about in in the comments section below.

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Two Horror Stories

May 20, 2010

I have been asked, on a couple of occasions, to talk about the horror genre to librarians who don’t normally read horror but want to help their patrons who do.

I started the sessions by announcing that I have two stories to tell. They actually happened to me.

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June 2010 Leisure Horror Book Club: Joyride

May 19, 2010
This entry is part 6 in the series The 2010 Leisure Horror Book Club

Today we’ll look at Joyride by Jack Ketchum. Yesterday’s post covered the other book Night Souls by L. H. Maynard and M. P. N. Sims.

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