📝 First Impressions Doctor Sleep is the long-awaited continuation of The Shining, but it is not simply a repetition of the earlier novel. Stephen King takes Danny Torrance—the frightened child at the centre of The Shining—and follows him into adulthood,…
📝 First Impressions The Ocean at the End of the Lane feels, from its very first pages, like a story remembered rather than a story simply told. Neil Gaiman takes an adult narrator back to the place where he grew…
📝 First Impressions I first came across The Blood Lives through Lee Isserow’s ABAM project — A Book A Month. At the time, I was not really familiar with ARCs or with the whole idea of receiving advance copies directly…
📝 First Impressions The title Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil was the first thing that caught my attention. It sounded dark, poetic and mysterious, although I somehow did not expect the novel to be about vampires. Looking back…
📝 First Impressions I already knew I wanted to return to this world before I even opened Malorie. I had enjoyed both Bird Box as a book and its film adaptation, so continuing with the second novel felt less like…
Every month, the British Library Tales of the Weird collection invites us to rediscover forgotten voices of supernatural fiction. Join me as I unbox this month’s beautifully crafted edition and take a closer look before we step into its strange…
There is a bit of delay, deh, bad weather, but here it is, January’s 2026 monthly book subscription from British Library – horror. Every month, the British Library Tales of the Weird collection invites us to rediscover forgotten voices of…