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cool-as-steel · 5 months ago

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review for the first half of t kingfisher's the twisted ones, precisely as I texted it at 1:30 am last night: "do not even remember the last time I got this scared by a work of fiction. I’m going to see can I sleep with the lights on. book’s great."

review for the second half: "uhhhh sure was a book I guess"

#the captain's library #I Did in fact sleep with the lights on. the last time I got scared enough to do that was after reading devil in the white city in 2017.#and that was because that's Pretending Very Hard to be Nonfiction and thus had a power to scare me in a way that fiction usually does not #(erik larson is an overdramatising nitwit and a good horror writer but a bad Historian and he can; as the poets say; Get Fucked)#anyway. arthur machen enjoyers should really read the twisted ones and then talk to me about it #again. the parts where it draws on machen and the mysteries and the weird-fiction of it all are really well done #but I started losing my enthralment when things got Really antlery. too many antlers in horror these days.#...also I liked the fact that tomas and foxy have a very mystery shack vibe around them. that was fun.

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