This post follows on from Books Read in 2007 which I posted at the end of July.
And for 2008 I read exactly one hundred and one books, one up from 2007’s total, but nothing reaches out and grabs me in terms of new discoveries, and most of my reading was done for review purposes, with the odd foray into the realms of crime/thriller and erotica.
On this day in 2008 I was reading “Covenant” by John Everson, and on the day I turned 54 I was back in ancient Rome in the world of Rebecca Levene’s “Anno Mortis”.
Okay, here’s the list:-
No-Man and Other Tales – Tony Richards
The Darkest Evening of the Year – Dean Koontz
Light Reading – Aliya Whiteley
The Man on the Ceiling – Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem
The Unblemished – Conrad Williams
Half the Blood in Brooklyn – Charlie Huston
Dark Wars: The Tale of Meiji Dracula – Hideyuki Kikuchi
The Mammoth Book of Horror Comics – Edited by Peter Normanton
Inferno – Edited by Ellen Datlow
Bone Machines – John Dodds
Other Voices – Andrew Humphrey
The Haunted – Owen Davies
Meat – Joseph D’Lacey
Alison – Andrew Humphrey
Horror Panegyric – Keith Seward
The Big Bow Mystery – Israel Zangwill
Flashspec Volume Two – Edited by Neil Cladingboel
The Final Days – Alex Chance
Potter’s Field 2 – Edited by Cathy Buburuz
The Second Black Book of Horror – Edited by Charles Black
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Mark Salisbury
Out of a Clear Sky – Sally Hinchcliffe
Old Flames – Jack Ketchum
All Your Gods Are Dead – Gary McMahon
Obedience – Will Lavender
The Semantics of Murder – Aifric Campbell
The Grin of the Dark – Ramsey Campbell
The Ninth Circle – Alex Bell
Joyride – Jack Ketchum
Cry for Help – Steve Mosby
Written in Bone – Simon Beckett
The Empty Page – Edited by Peter Wild
The Isle of Dogs – Daniel Davies
Therapy – Sebastian Fitzek
Infected – Scott Sigler
Lost Boys – James Miller
Say Goodbye – Lisa Gardner
Deep Inside – Polly Frost
Chemical Wedding – Bruce Dickinson & Julian Doyle
I, Zombie – Al Ewing
The Victoria Vanishes – Christopher Fowler
Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill
The Appetite – Nicholas Royle
Fantasy Sex – Flic Everett
Ultimate Sex – Judy Bastyra
Black Lace Omnibus:Release Me – Suki Cunningham
The Gospel According to Luke – Emily Maguire
White Corridor – Christopher Fowler
Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural – Jim Steinmeyer
Read By Dawn Volume 3 – Edited by Adele Hartley
The Reach of Children – Tim Lebbon
The Perils & Dangers of This Night – Stephen Gregory
The Everlasting – Tim Lebbon
Teatro Grottesco – Thomas Ligotti
Coffin County – Gary Braunbeck
Moontown – Peter Atkins
Tower Hill – Sarah Pinborough
The Ghost Quartet – Edited by Marvin Kaye
Fallen – Tim Lebbon
The Monkey’s Raincoat – Robert Crais
Black River – G. M. Ford
Nature Girl – Carl Hiaasen
Covenant – John Everson
Ghost Walk – Brian Keene
Jigsaw Man – Gord Rollo
The Wolfman – Nicholas Pekearo
Brides of the Impaler – Ed Lee
The Staff Room – Markus Orths
The Vampire of Ropraz – Jacques Chessex
Opus Pistorum – Henry Miller
Delta of Venus – Anais Nin
We Fade to Grey – Edited by Gary McMahon
Islington Crocodiles – Paul Meloy
Lucifer’s Ark – Simon Clark
Bull Running for Girls – Allyson Bird
Killing Kiss – Sam Stone
The Enigma of Departure – Nicholas Royle
Bitten to Death – Jennifer Rardin
Fourtold – Michael Stone
The Evil Seed – Joanne Harris
Stone Cold Calling – Simon Clark
The Painted Man – Graham Masterton
A Dangerous Climate – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Vengeance Child – Simon Clark
Unmarked Graves – Shaun Hutson
Living With the Dead – Darrell Schweitzer
Anno Mortis – Rebecca Levene
Shadows and Other Tales – Tony Richards
Cone Zero: Nemonymous 00 – Edited by D. F. Lewis
Premonitions: Causes for Alarm – Edited by Tony Lee
Subtle Edens – Edited by Allen Ashley
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Jeeves in the Offing – P. G. Wodehouse
Dark Rain – Tony Richards
Carmilla – J. Sheridan LeFanu
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease – Edited by Ra Page & Sarah Eyre
Audition – Ryu Murakami
Impossibilia – Douglas Smith
Monkey in the Middle – Stephen Solomita
Body Count – Shaun Hutson
How to Make Monsters – Gary McMahon
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