A few I've read lately



After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier — and is now ready to kill again . . .
Brilliant book, I really enjoyed this one, it was a real slow burner and only picked up in the final 20 or 30 pages but that didn't bother me.
The characters were great as well, the Dad who actually treated his daughter like a human being rather than the stereotypical father who raps his pride and joy up in cotton wool, then there was Odessa who was stereotypical, the black maid who loved the family and would go to the ends of the earth for them.
A real good book that I will no doubt revisit in the future



At a party, six college kids play with a Ouija board - that same one that Professor Dalton swore never to touch again - not after Jake's death. And now a spirit is telling the students about a vast fortune, hidden in the mountains. But surely they won't be stupid enough to head off into the wilderness on the say-so of a 'toy' ... would they?
Decent paint by numbers horror, kids play with a Ouija board which promises to lead them to masses of treasure, they go on a camping trip and shit gets real.
The one thing that grated on me though was the constant talk of sex, it just got boring. The dialogue was clunky but fun and the entire story is bizarre but actually really good



It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists are puzzling over the growth, Karen`s personality is beginning to drastically change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moved. Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes in contact with Karen Tandy understands the very depths of terror. Her body and soul are being taken over by a black spirit over four centuries old. He is the remembrance of the evils the white man has bestowed on the Indian people and the vengeance that has waited four hundred years to surface. He is the Manitou.
A young woman is having strange dreams and notices a lump on her neck which starts growing at an alarming rate, she goes to the doctors about the lump and goes to a 'fraudulent' psychic about the dreams, the two things are quickly connected and things move along at a breakneck speed.

Anyway she ends up giving birth (out of her neck) to a fully grown 600 year old red Indian, that's when the battle commences.

Its completely bonkers, if you are prepared to leave your brain at the door you will have good fun reading this.

I wouldn't say its a classic but its certainly enjoyable.