Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

108/2022 was Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, an EDUCATION in the slow-burn British country house gothic. I enjoyed it so much more than I expected!

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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

"Let’s say Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s Echo and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In happened to have a terrifyingly cold, ancient godlike, trans baby... Let’s also say a fictionalized version of Ernest Shackleton’s South got on well with Dan Simmons’s The Terror..." https://t.co/XPuKtsy92G

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122/2022 was A Supernatural War by Owen Davies: you BET I'll read a book about omens, ghosts, fortune telling and charms during WW1 🖤

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

62/2023 was Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine (thanks to @mirandajewess for the ARC) and OOF, I loved it. I'm viscerally terrified of pregnancy, so this smart, medical-horror update of Rosemary's Baby really hit home, full of medical gaslighting and... Satanists?

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

"Let’s say Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s Echo and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In happened to have a terrifyingly cold, ancient godlike, trans baby... Let’s also say a fictionalized version of Ernest Shackleton’s South got on well with Dan Simmons’s The Terror..." https://t.co/XPuKtsy92G

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

Yes, it's the 2023 "books what I have read" thread! 1/2023 was Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, an absolute REVELATION of a book. A spinster aunt moves to the country, starts taking long walks in nature alone, and makes a pact with Satan. Also gets a kitten. #goals

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

28/2023, come on Polar besties it's time for a new adventure, was The River of Doubt by Candice Millard - an ill-fated AMAZONIAN expedition, with rapids, disease, starvation, murder, desertion, all our favourite things! also feat. Theodore Roosevelt (yes, that one. Yes, really)

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

@GNutsofHorror 1. How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie 2. In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides 3. Don't Fear The Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones 4. Sundial by Catriona Ward 5. Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite / Billy Martin American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis The Apparition Phase by Will MacLean (2/2)

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

27/2023 was Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, which I've been meaning to read forever - stunning, absolutely stunning, so tense and filled with psychogeography and horrible coercion. Could be read as an excellent double bill with Skin Grows Over by @LEAllansGhost.