As I told you, my second passions are Gothic and Horror.  Everyone loves to be scared and feel the adrenaline rush through their veins.  I know there is no other rush in the world that evokes opposite feelings of attraction and repulsion, fear of and desire to embrace the unknown, and sensations of pleasure and pain.  With that in mind, please consider the following for your bleeding, (ooops!) reading pleasure.  Order from Amazon Books by clicking on the book or the name.

      "Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and
Ruin"
by Richard Davenport-Hines
Release date: May 1999
Teenagers in black clothing did not invent Gothic--in fact
the history of this movement can be traced back as far as
the 17th century, and to artists such as Salvator Rosa, who
painted ruined castles and dark, forbidding landscapes.
"Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil, and
Ruin" is a hefty tome that gives fascinating insight into
the life and times of this dark movement. Pre-order now for
shipment as soon as "Gothic" becomes available in May.

"The House" (new in paperback)
by Bentley Little

If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bentley
Little, then "The House" will give you the perfect
opportunity to get to know this fine sorcerer of horror.
Haunted houses are an endless source of fascination for
writers of the macabre--Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of
Hill House" and Henry James's classic "The Turn of the
Screw" come to mind. But Bentley Little manages to add
something new to this well-trodden territory--and "The
House" will scare your socks off.

Five strangers simultaneously experience terrifying
nightmares and strange hallucinations. These unnerving
events reacquaint each of the individuals with a childhood
they would rather forget and memories long repressed. Each
of these four men and one woman once lived in identical
houses--right down to the arrangement of the furniture. Each
must return to that childhood home to confront the demons of
the past, and liberate their souls from the shackles of
despair. --Naomi Gesinger

There is nothing more frightening than your own imagination mixed with reality-based "What if" scenarios.

"The Burning Road"
by Ann Benson

Separated by hundreds of years, Alejandro Canches, a court
physician from plague-ravished 14th-century Europe, and
Janie Crowe, a doctor from the 21st century, share a common
goal--to understand the medical mysteries of their own
eras. Ann Benson's "The Burning Road" is a clever
combination of futuristic thriller, medical mystery, and
historical drama.
 
 
 

 Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

Reviews
Amazon.com
The University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine is a haven for the Benandanti who guard against the return of the Moon Goddess, a powerful destroyer. As a freshman at the university, Sweeney Cassidy fell in with Oliver and Angelica, the Chosen Ones, whose violent coupling under the moon begins the goddess' awakening. Twenty years later, Sweeney works for the National Museum of Natural History and Angelica is a New Age writer with a growing, eccentric following. When Dylan, Angelica's son becomes Sweeney's intern, she discovers that Angelica is the goddess incarnate and that she is the only one who can stop her. The novel won a James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1996.

"Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women" (paperback)
edited by Victoria A. Brownworth and Judith M. Redding
Gothic fiction transforms normality--the supernatural
becomes the everyday, human fears are exaggerated, familiar
landscapes are turned into places that are strange and
bizarre. Female writers have inhabited this landscape for
generations. Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, and Angela Carter are
just three of the more famous dark divas. Now some less
well-known voices have their say in "Night Shade: Gothic
Tales by Women." The 17 short stories take place in everyday
settings--contemporary houses, a bar, a veterinary hospital.
Yet in this collection, the familiar is subverted. In Roz
Warren's "The Birthday Present," a quite ordinary young
woman is given a special gift on her 25th birthday--the
powers of shapeshifting. When she falls in love with a
married man, Liza morphs into a body that this man will find
irresistible.

"Night Shade" is a melting pot of the erotic, the
supernatural, and the gloriously gory. Fans of Gothic
fiction will eat it up.

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