The Smell of Ink/Lukten av Trykksverte

It's Tuesday, which means it's perhaps time for another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl , and as it was freebie week in terms of themes, I decided writing a list of horror fiction with movie adaptations. Some of the fiction I'll list has more than one adaptation though. Here's my ten picks. Dracula by Bram Stoker Description from Goodreads When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing into questions of identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality...

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for yet another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl  and today's topic is modern books I think will be classics in the future. As I'm focusing on horror and paranormal books on this blog, I'll obviously write a list based on that. Fair enough, I've added Pet Sematary by Stephen King, which was first published in the 80's and somewhat got a bit of a classic status already, or at least Stephen King is a bit of a living legend when it comes to (modern) horror, so there's that. Anyway, here's my ten picks. Pet Sematary by Stephen King Description from Goodreads The house looked right, felt right, to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding ...

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl  and today's topic is the first ten books I randomly grabbed from my shelves. Here's my ten picks. Cookin for Ghosts by Patricia V. Davis Description from Goodreads Do hearts broken long ago forever leave a tangible trace? A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: each is haunted by a tragedy from her past. Cynthia, Rohini, Jane, and Angela meet on a food blogging site and bond over recipes. They decide on impulse to open The Secret Spice, an elegant café on the magnificent ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary, currently a floating hotel in Long Beach, California. Rich in history and tales of supernatural occurrences, the ship hides her own desperate secrets. The women are surrounded by ghosts long before they step aboard, but once they do, nothing is quite what it...

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl  and as it was a Halloween freebie this week in terms of themes, I decided to write a list of spine-chilling books to read for this upcoming holiday. Some of them are even set during Halloween and/or the autumn. Here's my ten picks. This Is Halloween by James A. Moore Description from Goodreads Author James A. Moore offers up ten autumnal tales of the darker things that lurk just around the corner of Indian Summer. A man learns of a town's obsession with scarecrows and tries to find the answers as to why they are so important. Children move through familiar streets and find that Halloween makes everything different. Tis' the season when ghosts are real, witches soar through the night, and things in the Beldam Woods are not always what they seem. Sometimes it's the monsters that wear the masks. Halloween: A Collection of Short Stories by Matt Shaw Description...

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for a new Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl . Today's topic was cosy/atmospheric reads, and as the majority of the horror books I read most certainly doesn't qualify as cosy, I decided focusing a bit more on light-hearted paranormal and/or fantasy novels. Some of the books has even an autumnal theme to them. Here's my ten picks. The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling Description from Goodreads New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. That is until Rhys P...