I've been reading The Maltese Falcon lately, Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel. I hadn't read it or The Thin Man despite having ...

"WHOM THESE CHAINS BECOME NOT SO", by Caitlin R. Kiernan, is the new Sirenia Digest story I read to-day. It's good. It's ...

To-day I read what I think is the newest Sirenia Digest , number 214, containing "Night Fishing", a new Caitlin R. Kiernan story. ...

Last night I read "Gorgon", the new Caitlin R. Kiernan story in the Sirenia Digest . It's a good story that combines several...

Reading MR James has gotten to be a seasonal tradition with me. This year, my mother sent me a hardback collection of his ghost stories, whi...

I finished The Werewolf of Paris yesterday. It was pretty good although, despite what I said in my review of the first half of the book ,...

I figured I should read a horror novel for Halloween month so I'm about halfway through 1933's The Werewolf of Paris . I'm enjoy...

Have caution when accepting your sudden fabulous inheritance. David Balfour, the protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Ki...

I'm reading two books now, which I really don't like to do, especially since I don't have as much time to read anymore. But no...

A group of college students conspire to murder one of their classmates in Donna Tartt's 1992 novel The Secret History . I never heard ...

Yesterday I read the new Sirenia Digest which contained a new Caitlin R. Kiernan story called "A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bi...

Last night I dreamt I played this song for a class in Egypt at the base of a pyramid. I said, "And that's Kenny Rogers!" but...

One of the things I love about The Kind of Elfland's Daughter is that, for most of the book, none of the characters have any agency. It...

I'm about halfway through The King of Elfland's Daughter , a 1924 novel by Lord Dunsany. It's good. Like a lot of great fantasy ...

I read the new Sirenia Digest while eating lunch to-day. The new Caitlin R. Kiernan story, "The Moment Under the Moment", is a de...

Is honour but "a mere scutcheon" as Falstaff would say, an inevitable road to hypocrisy and madness, or is it a manifestation of...

I've been reading Walter Scott's 1820 novel Ivanhoe again lately. I read about half of it a year ago and got distracted reading o...

I finished reading Allan Quatermain (1887) yesterday, H. Rider Haggard's sequel to his own King Solomon's Mines . I think Alan Mo...

I've started reading Allan Quatermain , H. Rider Haggard's 1887 sequel to his King Solomon's Mines . So far I'm finding Alla...

I finally did it, I finally finished reading The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , originally published in segments from 175...