Aw, I'll bet your mouse is cool. My from a first visit to the Outlaws I discovered their intact lizard skeleton they had pinned to the felt board where they stored their pool cues... aaaand then I discovered the hummingbird corpses in the freezer. Himself found out that they were his Dad's... and with no other explanation on offer so, we just backed away slowly. (The father Outlaw was not, sadly as metal as all of this might suggest.)
I am a HUGE muppet-flailing fan of T.Kingfisher but she writes horror way too well in the subtle way she includes it in almost every book written under the Kingfisher name, and I don't actually DO horror, so haven't yet read Hollow or Twisted (though I've nearly talked myself into that one, but I read a Caitlin Doughtery nonfic last night [she's the Ask A Mortician chick] and that gave me some teeth-grinding stress dreams, so maybe not... ). I am looking forward earnestly to Nettle & Bone, because fairytale horror is about the level of scary I can do and they're always SO snidely funny.
Also, I am snickering inappropriately that there was a horror novel called The White People and now I must at least read the flyleaf...
So... in re: the lizard skeleton and the hummingbird corpses (!!!), we have... a drawer full of bones in our living room? I'd actually completely forgotten about it and then it came up in conversation with some friends this weekend and I don't even know how to feel about how unsurprised they were, LOL.
For me, I'd say that Twisted fell more into the dark fantasy realm than straight-up horror—buuuuut then again, for me, faeries and horror are never ALL that far apart, what with their love of human sacrifice and all that jazz.
I mean, if you want to snicker even MORE about The White People, in her author's note, she talks a bit about how Lovecraft Had Opinions about it—I howled when she added a parenthetical "bless his heart"—and how her take diverged from his interpretation, so yeah, I'm going to have to track it down for sure.
Aw, I'll bet your mouse is cool. My from a first visit to the Outlaws I discovered their intact lizard skeleton they had pinned to the felt board where they stored their pool cues... aaaand then I discovered the hummingbird corpses in the freezer. Himself found out that they were his Dad's... and with no other explanation on offer so, we just backed away slowly. (The father Outlaw was not, sadly as metal as all of this might suggest.)
I am a HUGE muppet-flailing fan of T.Kingfisher but she writes horror way too well in the subtle way she includes it in almost every book written under the Kingfisher name, and I don't actually DO horror, so haven't yet read Hollow or Twisted (though I've nearly talked myself into that one, but I read a Caitlin Doughtery nonfic last night [she's the Ask A Mortician chick] and that gave me some teeth-grinding stress dreams, so maybe not... ). I am looking forward earnestly to Nettle & Bone, because fairytale horror is about the level of scary I can do and they're always SO snidely funny.
Also, I am snickering inappropriately that there was a horror novel called The White People and now I must at least read the flyleaf...
So... in re: the lizard skeleton and the hummingbird corpses (!!!), we have... a drawer full of bones in our living room? I'd actually completely forgotten about it and then it came up in conversation with some friends this weekend and I don't even know how to feel about how unsurprised they were, LOL.
For me, I'd say that Twisted fell more into the dark fantasy realm than straight-up horror—buuuuut then again, for me, faeries and horror are never ALL that far apart, what with their love of human sacrifice and all that jazz.
I mean, if you want to snicker even MORE about The White People, in her author's note, she talks a bit about how Lovecraft Had Opinions about it—I howled when she added a parenthetical "bless his heart"—and how her take diverged from his interpretation, so yeah, I'm going to have to track it down for sure.