For the month of October and our 1st year Anniversary! We read The Dark Tower III - The Wastelands by Stephen King & Legion by William Peter Blatty and have a discussion on our thoughts

The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands: Redemption, commonly known simply as The Waste Lands, is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the third book of the Dark Tower series. The original limited edition hardcover featuring full-color illustrations by Ned Dameron was published in 1991 by Grant. The book was reissued in 2003 to coincide with the publication of The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla. The book derives its title from the T. S. Eliot 1922 poem The Waste Land, several lines of which are reprinted in the opening pages. In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust" and "Lud: A Heap of Broken Images") are named after lines in the poem. The Waste Lands was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.

Legion is a 1983 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty, a sequel to The Exorcist. It was adapted for the film The Exorcist III in 1990. Like The Exorcist, it involves demonic possession. The book was the focus of a court case over its exclusion from The New York Times Best Seller list. Blatty based aspects of the Gemini Killer on the real life Zodiac Killer, who in a January 1974 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle had praised the original Exorcist film as "the best satirical comedy that I have ever seen".

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book, murder, and other heavier topics. This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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For the month of Sept (sorry we are late) we read The Dark Tower II - The Drawing of Three by Stephen King and have a discussion on our thoughts

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. The Drawing of the Three is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the second book in the Dark Tower series, published by Grant in 1987. The series was inspired by Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning. The story is a continuation of The Gunslinger and follows Roland of Gilead and his quest towards the Dark Tower. The subtitle of this novel is RENEWAL.

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book, murder, and other heavier topics. This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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For the month of August (sorry we are late) we read The Gunslinger by Stephen King and have a discussion on our thoughts

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in his Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle "RESUMPTION". The story centers Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake, who travels with him part of the way.

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book, murder, and other heavier topics. This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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For the month of July we read The Troop by Nick Cutter and have a discussion on our thoughts

The Troop is a 2014 horror novel written by Canadian author Craig Davidson under the pen name Nick Cutter. The novel was released in English in hardback, e-book, and audiobook on February 25, 2014, through Gallery Books. The following year, it won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing.

The novel follows a troop of Boy Scouts who must deal with not only the threats posed by killer tapeworms, but also the homicidal and sociopathic tendencies of one of their own.

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book, murder, and other heavier topics.This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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For the month of June we read Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren and have a discussion on our thoughts Short stories of one of the most notorious Serial Killers."Sam Little is the monster in this story and Jillian Lauren is the slayer. She is the one who stuck her nose into it, saw something was not right, was dreadfully wrong, in fact, and did something about it." - Michael Connelly

Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades?

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book, murder, and other heavier topics.This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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For the month of May we read The Dark Verse, Vol. 1 From the Passages of Revenants and have a discussion on our thoughts Short stories of occult, metaphysical, and fantastical horror that will follow you to the visions of your sleep. The Dark Verse is a multiverse of Lovecraftian terror written and self-published by M. Amanuensis Sharkchild, and is currently contained within four hardcover volumes—each in possession of 26 stories.

The books are praised for their illustrious hardcover binding and artwork and have won five awards. The style and atmosphere of his writing is often compared to the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

(sorry for the delays on this one it was supposed to come out the end of May)

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book.This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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For the month of February we read Little Girls (A Ghost Story) by Ronald Malfi and have a discussion on our thoughts on the Bram Stoker Award nominee's book. After years away, Laurie returns to the home where she was raised by a cold, distant father who recently exorcised his demons. But no amount of cleaning can wipe away the troubled past. She feels it lurking in the broken moldings, sees it staring from an empty picture frame, hears it laughing in the moldy greenhouse deep in the woods...

(sorry for the delays on this one it was supposed to come out the end of February)

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For the month of February we read Tomie by Junji Ito and have a discussion on our thoughts on the series by the great mangaka. Tomie (Japanese: 富江) is a Japanese horrormanga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Tomie was Ito's first published work he originally submitted to Monthly Halloween, a shōjo magazine in 1987, which led to him winning the Kazuo Umezu award

(sorry for the delays on this one it was supposed to come out the end of February)

“Our discussion will touch on the potential sexual assault depicted in the book.This content is disturbing and may be traumatizing. This content is for mature audiences.”

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