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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The Scent of Young Womanhood Author: Patrick Suskind Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born into filth, unwanted. His mother was executed for attempting to kill him. Grenouille was passed from one church to another, one nurse to another, but everyone found something about him, even as a child, that was unsettling, wrong. The infant had no smell, and this was, they felt, a harbinger of something altogether inhuman. Something other and twisted. They were not wrong. While Grenouille has no scent of his own, he has a powerful gift. He can decipher and catalog odors in a way that no other can. Odors [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-02T14:08:48-07:00December 2nd, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, reaading, read|

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Came Outta Nowhere, Didn't It? Author: Laurel Hightower Addy is determined to make it on her own, but the echoing condemnation of her ex-husband continues ringing through her head as she fights a snowstorm, driving alone through West Virginia toward her friends and a horror convention. She’s trying out independence, but her doubts and the worsening road conditions, plus bizarre electrical flickers throughout her car, make her unreasonably grateful for the help of a friendly trucker who gives her his CB and talks to her through the long drive. When he screams and she sees his semi go off the road [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-24T20:55:14-07:00November 24th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, Laurel Hightower, read, reading, supernatural, weird|

Gone to See The River Man

The Cost of Love Author: Kristopher Triana Obsession is a dark thing. What squirms out of its fetid corpse in the night is not love, but violence, desperation, depravity. This, then, is a story of obsession. One tainted by the twins of envy and jealousy, of one woman’s descent into darkness for meaning. Lori has been talking to serial killer Edmund Cox for years. It started with letters, but she has also visited him in prison a few times. The darkness in Edmund that led him to target and torture women, an evil that remains un-repented, corresponds to something in Lori’s [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-17T19:11:16-07:00November 17th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|