I do love a reading challenge! As a reader, planner and lover of lists (except those annoying "to do" lists), reading challenges...

Damaged by Pamela Callow (Mira, 2010 - Crime Fiction; 454 pgs) Rating: (Very Good) Damaged by Alex Kava (Doubleday, 2010 - Crime Fict...

It was a dark and stormy night . . . The most perfect setting for the Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) Challenge hosted by Carl V. of Stainl...

"20th Century Ghost" & "Pop Art" by Joe Hill (from 20th Century Ghosts ) Alec Sheldon first saw the ghost of Imogen...

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist St. Martin's Griffin, 2008 (English translated version) Horror; 480 pgs I like horror nov...

He climbed the stairs and started back down the hall to the bedroom. His gaze drifted to an old man, sitting in an antique Shaker chair aga...

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of telltale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they are a...

Imagine living in a district, confined inside an electric fence, where going beyond its boundaries is punishable by death. Imagine a plac...

"Best New Horror" by Joe Hill (from 20th Century Ghosts ) One of the reasons I like to mix up my reading, reading a variety of ty...

I married Tobias Warring in the Silver Bells All-Nite Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. It was a conventional start to our unconventional story. ...

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (1842) What first struck me about Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Pit and the Pendulum...

With the opening line “It was a dark and stormy night. . .” begins the fifth annual Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) Challenge hosted by ...