Book mail: Horror fiction from Yardstick Books: The Rats, The Other, Toplin, Blood Rubies, The Cipher.

Book-mail: Stephen King’s Carrie, the musical tie-in edition. Carrie debuted at Broadway’s Virginia Theater in April 1988. #stephenking #carriethemusical #horrorfiction #signetpaperback #constantreader

Book(ish) mail: Holly, Stephen King slipcase from Cemetery Dance Publications.

Cat of Many Tails, Ellery Queen [Penzler, 1949]

New York City is preyed upon by a serial killer dubbed “The Cat.”Amateur consulting detective Ellery Queen is appointed as a special investigator. The crimes seem random—until Queen detects a pattern reveals the identity of the killer.

Q:Where did Edgar Allan Poe shop for clothes?

A: Casual Male & Maelström

Return of the Maltese Falcon, Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime, 2026].

Legendary PI Sam Spade is back of the case in this atmospheric sequel set in Prohibition-era San Francisco.

Reacher, Lee Child [Mysterious Press, 2025].

A writer’s memoir comprised of a series of essays by the semi-retired Child.

Big Lizard, Joe R. Lansdale and Keith Lansdale [Encyclopocalypse Publications, 2020].

Buster, a security guard at Pick-a-Chicken, a fried chicken restaurant where patrons select and slaughter their own poultry, uncovers the occult machinations behind the restaurant’s success.

Weird Fiction—An Anthology
[Penguin, 2024].

A collection of Weird Fiction featuring Poe, Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton, Lovecraft, W.W. Jacobs & etc.

Speaks the Nightbird, Vol II: Evil Unveiled, Robert R. McCammon [Pocket, 2003].

In the concluding volume of Speaks the Nightbird, Matthew Corbett investigates a series of murders in a remote colonial outpost, seeking to exonerate a woman convicted of witchcraft.

Speaks the Nightbird: Vol. 1, Judgement of the Witch, Robert R. McCammon [Pocket, 2002].

In the year 1699, Matthew Corbett, a 20-year old assistant to a magistrate, makes a perilous journey to a remote colonial outpost, Fount Royal, where a beautiful young widow is accused of witchcraft and murder.

…an imprisoned political activist. Using an old occult tome, the friends summon a dragon, which has unexpected consequences

King Sorrow, Joe Hill [Morrow, 2025].

Beginning in the year 1989, King Sorrow focuses on the lives of six friends on the campus of a small New England university. One of the group is being extorted by a local dirtbag couple, who make credible threats against his mother…

John Lennon memorial—Central Park. #johnlennon

“…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these, the homeless tempest toss’d to me…”

“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus [1883]

His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood, Poppy Z. Brite [Penguin, 1995].

A chapbook comprised of four stories in the Splatterpunk vein, issued to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Penguin Books.

Fiddlers, Ed McBain [Harcourt, 2005].

In the fictitious American city, Isola, the detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate a string of murders, perpetrated by a killer with a personal grudge against each of the victims. The superb 55th (!) and final installment in the classic series.

Past Tense, Lee Child [Delacorte, 2018].

Jack Reacher travels to his father’s hometown of Laconia, NH where he uncovers a family mystery…meanwhile a deadly game of cat and mouse plays out in the nearby countryside. A stellar entry in the long-running series.

Standing in front of Stephen King’s residence in Bangor wearing The Stand shirt

Some snaps at Stephen King’s Bangor residence. #stephenking

Bangor, ME

Bangor, ME

Portsmouth NH

I *CANNOT WAIT * to crack open one of these fortune cookies!

Oriental Jade.
Bangor, ME.

The Living Dead, George Romero and Daniel Kraus [Penguin, 2020].

An original work of fiction—a Post-Apocalyptic zombie epic—describing the immediate aftermath and the future Second Dark Age, ten years after the outbreak from legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.

In the Mouth of Madness, Sutter Cane [Arcane, 2025].

A mind bending work of meta fiction about the search for a missing horror novelist.

The Phantom of the Opera

My post was included on Joe R. Lansdale’s Instagram story!

The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale.

New collection of Joe R. Lansdale’s best short horror fiction with an introduction by Joe Hill. Collects great stories like “The God of the Razor,” “By Bizarre Hands,” “The Night They Missed the Horror Show,” “Fish Night” & etc.

It’s my sincere and ardent hope that everybody is *not* workin’ for the weekend.

My Death, Lisa Tuttle [New York Review Books, 2004].

The unnamed protagonist, a grieving recently widowed writer, living on the remote Scottish coast, sets off to write a biography of an obscure modernist, and discovers uncanny parallels to her own life.