The Unknown - Riley Sager
Dark Matter - Michelle Paver (Jeg har en annen utgave)
Demon Seed - Dean Koontz (Jeg har en annen utgave)
The Caller - Chris Carter
The Wakening - J.G. Faherty
Da er oktober endelig her og jeg liker ikke å kalle det Spooky Season, så aner ikke hva man skal kalle det. Skrekktiden? 💀
Nå er det på tide å løfte vekk lokket, komme seg ut av kista og nyte mørketiden. Finne frem alle skjelettene i skapet, prøve å ikke bli meiet ned av heksene, hjelpe opp zombiene fra bakken. 👿
Nei da, jeg bare tuller, eller gjør jeg? Det er på tide å finne frem de mørkeste bøkene, som om jeg ikke gjør det ellers i året, lese litt horror, for høsten er jo perfekt for det. Merk at ikke alle disse bøkene (fra dette innlegget) er horror, for hadde ikke mange uleste horror bøker igjen, men noen av disse bøkene er andre sjangere med horor elementer/ eller bøker som blander seg litt med horror. Det er vanskelig å finne ren horror for tiden. Syns forlag var flinkere til å markere det i gamle dager ...
Grace: Dette blir min tredje bok av A. M Shine. Har tidligere lest The Watchers og The Creeper som jeg likte godt. Les heller boka The Watcher fremfor å se filmen, for den var teit. A.M. Shine er en forfatter jeg har blitt nysgjerrig på for liker fortellerstemmen hans. Den er noe mystisk og har en del undertoner. Så får se om jeg liker denne boka også, eller ikke.
( Fra Goodreads):
A haunting, atmospheric modern Gothic horror tale based on traditional Irish mythology, from the author of smash hit The Watchers. Ancient evil is awakened on a lonely isle off the coast of Ireland.
TO LEARN THE TRUTH
WOULD YOU DESCEND INTO HELL?
Off the west coast of Ireland lies a lonely island, isolated and wilfully forgotten. Some say there hasn't been a child born on the island for thirty years. Others speak of strange deaths there, decades ago. But no one really knows what happened. Locals believe that the dark times are behind them.
They are mistaken.
Grace, adopted at four years old, has never known where she came from. A mysterious phone call leads her back to the island where she was born – and where a terrible evil has been disturbed.
As the evil starts to spread, Grace finds herself dragged back into a living nightmare that threatens to engulf anyone who steps into its path.
The Unknown: Jeg har skrekkelig nok lest seks bøker av Riley Sager, som egentlig heter Todd Ritter. Den jeg har likt best er Final Girls som er hans første. Bøkene hans er ikke akkurat horror, men horror thrillere. En real blanding, og byr som regel på mye underholdning, selv om ikke alt er seriøst.
(Fra Goodreads):
In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again.
Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.
Because New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums—until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one.
Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island's previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin, Ronan, and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again.
Is it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island’s alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon—and how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.
Dark Matter: Har lest en bok av henne før som het Høydeskrekk. Den var ikke en skrekkelig eller grøssende på noen måte, men merket meg at Paver er veldig god på stemning, så ble nysgjerrig på å lese mer av henne.
(På Goodreads):
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely, and desperate to change his life, so when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, but the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice: stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return--when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...
Demon Seed: Dean Koontz er en forfatter jeg har lest mye av. Han er også en forfatter som jeg ikke blir lei av. Mange syns han er dårligere en Stephen King. Selvfølgelig er Stephen King mye bedre, men Koontz er ikke så verst han heller.
(Fra Goodreads):
Susan Harris lived in self-imposed seclusion, in a mansion featuring numerous automated systems controlled by a state-of-the-art computer. Every comfort was provided, and in this often unsafe world of ours, her security was absolute.
But now her security system has been breached, her sanctuary from the outside world violated by an insidious artificial intelligence, which has taken control of her house. In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer's consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about the flesh...
The Caller: En av de få forfatterne i dette innlegget som jeg ikke har lest noe av før. Vet at dette ikke er den første boka i serien han er kjent for, men serien kan heldigvis leses i ukronologisk rekkefølge, så jeg tar sjansen. Er ikke så nøye når det gjelder krimbøker, for som regel er det ny sak i hver bok, og ofte er det med mye bakgrunnshistorie. Så får gi det et forsøk. Det er heller ikke skaperen av The X-Files, selv om disse to har samme navn.
(Fra Goodreads):
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Be careful before answering your next call. It could be the beginning of your worst nightmare. After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in, but as she steps out of her shower, she hears her phone ring. The video call request comes from her best friend, Karen Ward. Tanya takes the call and the nightmare begins. Detectives Robert Hunter and Carlos Garcia are thrown into a rollercoaster of evil, chasing a predator who scouts the streets and social media networks for victims, taunting them with secret messages and feeding on their fear. AS ADDICTIVE AS A TV BOXSET!PRAISE FOR CHRIS CARTER 'Carter has a background in criminal psychology and the killers at the centre of his novels are all the more terrifying for it' Mail on Sunday, chosen for 'If You Only Pack One' 'Carter is one of those authors who makes writing look effortless . . . I couldn't put it down' Crimesquad 'An insanely good crime series. Extraordinarily well written, high quality and high drama all the way' Liz Loves Books 'An intriguing and scary thriller' Better Reading 'A gripping feast of thrills' Shots 'A gripping psychological thriller' Breakaway 'Very satisfying read' Falcata Times
The Wakening: Også en forfatter jeg ikke har lest noe av tidligere. Skulle lese boka i 2022, men det ble ikke noe av, for andre bøker kom i veien. Kanskje det blir denne bokas tur nå? En bok jeg vet veldig lite om, og det er slik jeg foretrekker det før jeg begynner på en bok.
(Fra Goodreads):
A team of paranormal investigators, a priest and a defrocked priest with a dark secret join forces to combat of a vengeful ancient demon, and the evil spreading throughout a small New York town.
Fifty years ago, Father Leo Bonaventura, a young exorcist, cast a demon out from a young boy in Central America. The demon, Asmodeus, vowed revenge. Now the demon has returned, in the same town where Bonaventura is a retired priest nearing the end of his life. In a series of not-so-coincidental events, the possession of a young girl brings together an unlikely group of people, all of whom are linked in their pasts in some way: A group of paranormal investigators, including twin psychics. Robert Lockhart, a defrocked priest with a dark secret that only the twins know. A father whose dead wife was a college girlfriend of Robert’s and once conjured an evil spirit with him through a Ouiji board. Now they must all join forces and help Father Bonaventura rid the town not only of Asmodeus, but also the plague of poltergeists that have followed the demon into our world.
Som vanlig kommer jeg til å smette inn andre bøker i løpet av måneden. Det er vanskelig å holde seg til leselista hele tiden.
Det ble i overkant mannlige forfattere denne gang, men har heller ikke lagt skjul på at jeg liker mannlige forfattere bedre, De er mer rett på sak i bøkene sine. Det er jo mange gode kvinnelige forfattere, også. Selvfølgelig. Håper at oktober blir en lang og guffen måned. Her i Trøndelag har det vært høst siden mai, og jeg klager ikke. 👿👻🧛
