Horror general thread [+]

overgeeked · Tuesday at 3:26 AM

I just finished Twentieth Anniversary Screening, a novella by Jeff Strand that earned him a Bram Stoker Award. It’s crazy short but won the long-form award, go figure. It’s a horror-comedy story in the mockumentary style. A psycho becomes obsessed with a trashy slasher flick and tries to kill people in the theater in the same way as the on-screen killer does. Twenty years go by and the sleazy owner of the theater wants to cash in, so he organizes a screening of the film…only for a psycho to ruin the night by trying to recreate the original attempt at killing…only for two more psychos to ruin the whole thing by also trying to recreate the original attempt. Horror and comedy ensues. Great, quick read.

overgeeked · 2026-03-26T05:06:06+0000

I just finished I'll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky, a novella by Brian Hodge. Damn. What a spectacularly beautiful book. It's definitely a Lovecraftian cosmic horror...or maybe chthonic horror. Like with Ballad of Black Tom, I'd heartily recommend this as a door into modern cosmic horror. There's no gore to speak of, but there is a bit of body horror. I picked this up today and fell into it. Finished it in two sittings only because I was forced from my spot. As someone with ADHD, that kind of head first being absolutely absorbed in a book doesn't happen that often. This one is just really, really good.

#

I'm also chugging along on the horror comics. I realized it's taking me longer to write up those mini reviews than it does to actually read the things, so I'm done with that.