This post follows on from Books Read in 2010, which I posted at the end of October.
And for 2011 I read one hundred and twenty books, fourteen up from the total in 2010, though again with some duplications. And, as ever at that time in my life, most of these books were read for review in the pages of Black Static.
A couple of the author identifications are problematic. I almost certainly received an e-copy of The Lives of the Savages by Robert Edric from PS Publishing, but I have no recollection of the book and can’t find any note about the book in my files. Similarly, I definitely had a copy of Birdman by Mo Hayder, a present from a friend, but don’t recall ever reading it and can’t find anything else in my files. If anyone knows of books with those titles but by different authors, please shout out in the comments below.
On this day in 2011 I was chilling out with Taxidermied: The Art of Roman Dirge, and on the occasion of my 57th birthday I read The Bear With Sticky Paws (please, don’t ask). 2011 was the year when I first read a book by Ralph Robert Moore, the first of many. My favourite book of the year was The Third Section by Jasper Kent, and I definitely need to catch up with the rest of his Danilov Quintet.
Here’s the list:-
What They Hear in the Dark – Gary McMahon
Girl in the Woods – Jennifer McMahon
The End of the Line – Edited by Jonathan Oliver
Haunted Legends – Edited by Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas
Burying Brian- Steven Pirie
Christmas With The Dead – Joe R. Lansdale
The Broken Man – Michael Byers
Old Order – Jonathan Janz
Sparrowhawk – Paul Finch
The Place Between – Terry Grimwood
Transparent Lovers – Scott Nicholson
Frankenstein’s Prescription – Tim Lees
What They Hear in the Dark – Gary McMahon
Pain – Harry Shannon
Homeschooling – Carol Guess
The Lives of the Savages – Robert Edric
Unpleasant Tales – Brendan Connell
Blind Swimmer – Edited by David Rix
Sylvow – Douglas Thompson
Field – Tom Fletcher
Lexicon – Christopher Burns
The Painter, The Creature, and The Father of Lies – Edited by Phil & Sarah Stokes
Weirdtongue – D. F. Lewis
The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales – Mark Samuels
The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children – Brendan Connell
Blonde on a Stick – Conrad Williams
The Render of the Veils – Ramsey Campbell
Dark Minds – Edited by Ross Warren & Anthony Watson
I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like – Justin Isis
The Leaping – Tom Fletcher
The Thing On The Shore – Tom Fletcher
Loss of Separation – Conrad Williams
Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories – Edited by Michael Sims
The Abolisher of Roses – Gary Fry
Terra Damnata – James Cooper
Carmilla – J Sheridan LeFanu
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Mammoth Book of Dracula – Edited by Stephen Jones
Anno Dracula – Kim Newman
Dracula In Love – Karen Essex
The Dracula Papers – Book I: The Scholar’s Tale – Reggie Oliver
Engines of Desire – Livia Llewllyn
The Abolisher of Roses – Gary Fry
Terra Damnata – James Cooper
Dead Sea Fruit – Kaaron Warren
Homeschooling – Carol Guess
I Smell Blood – Ralph Robert Moore
Our Lady of the Shadows – Fritz Leiber
Cursed – David Wellington
13 Bullets: A Vampire’s Tale – David Wellington
Bloody War – Terry Grimwood
Weirdtongue – D. F. Lewis
Charnel Wine – Richard Gavin
Mistification – Kaaron Warren
Ill At Ease – Mark West/Neil Williams/Stephen Bacon
Old Albert: An epilogue – Brian J. Showers
Midnight’s Angels – Tony Richards
Beneath the Surface – Simon Strantzas
Nemonymous Night – D. F. Lewis
Delicate Toxins – Edited by John Hirschhorn-Smith
The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies – Edited by D. F. Lewis
Revenants – Daniel Mills
A Lust for Lead – Robert Davis
Darkhouse – Alex Barclay
Voodoo River – Robert Crais
The German – Lee Thomas
Twisted – Jonathan Kellerman
Viking Dead – Toby Venables
Blinded – Stephen White
Birdman – Mo Hayder
Acceptable Loss – Anne Perry
No Second Chance – Harlan Coben
The Third Section – Jasper Kent
Roman Hell – Mark Mellon
King Death – Paul Finch
Do Not Pass Go – Joel Lane
The Company Man – Robert Jackson Bennett
Taxidermied: The Art of Roman Dirge – Roman Dirge
Bricks – Leon Jenner
Friday Night in the Beast House – Richard Laymon
Nowhere Hall – Cate Gardner
The Zombie Autopsies – Steve C. Schlozman
The Joy of Technology – Roy Grey
Isis Unbound – Allyson Bird
The Devil in Love – Jacques Cazotte
The Dedalus Meyrink Reader
O My Days – David Mathew
Regicide – Nicholas Royle
The Redemption – William Peter Blatty
Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives – Edited by Justin Gustainis
Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares – John Landis
The Burning Soul – John Connolly
The Shadow of the Soul – Sarah Pinborough
A Christmas Odyssey – Anne Perry
A Dark Matter – Peter Straub
The Silent Land – Graham Joyce
The Concrete Grove – Gary McMahon
The Unseen – Alexandra Sokoloff
The Ritual – Adam Nevill
Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King
Quiet Houses – Simon Kurt Unsworth
Remains – G. A. Pickin
Sullom Hill – Chris Kenworthy
Dead Bad Things – Gary McMahon
Do Not Pass Go – Joel Lane
Ill At Ease – Mark West/Neil Williams/Stephen Bacon
Old Albert: An Epilogue – Brian J. Showers
The Bear With Sticky Paws – Clara Vulliamy
Taxidermied: The Art of Roman Dirge – Roman Dirge
A Cold Season – Alison Littlewood
Nowhere Hall – Cate Gardner
The Theatre of Curious Acts – Cate Gardner
Ashes – Isla J. Bick
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Three – Edited by Ellen Datlow
Barbed Wire Hearts – Cate Gardner
Fearful Festivities – Gary Fry
Eat Your Heart Out – Dayna Ingram
Cull – Michael G. Preston
The Silver Wind – Nina Allan
Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead – Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
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