The Killer Inside Me | Jim Thompson
I put this on my To Read list years ago when I started writing my book – It's a first-person POV with lots of death and murder so of course sounded perfect for all the right and morbid reasons. I never picked it up, though – I felt like it might influence me too much – yea, I read the little blurb by Stanley Kubrick, and my expectations were that it was gonna be evil and insightfully real. And it is! The whole book has this sweet, small town, bumpkin-y feel to it, which like
Mister B. Gone | Clive Barker
This review is hard to write. I’m used to loving all things Barker, but Mister B. Gone was a hard one - a really hard one - to love
The Thief of Always | Clive Barker
Another book by Barker that made it onto my short list. The Thief of Always quickly turned into a childhood fantasy I never knew I had. The story is clear n simple. A could-be child’s read. Harvey Swick is bored – so he leaves to somewhere better. To do something more exciting, to see something more exciting, to escape the Great Grey Beast that was February. The visuals are amazing, again Barker's prose are on point. As twisted and disturbing as the Hellbound Heart was, Thief