Tag: psychological fiction
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The Psychological Horror of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
As the bridge between scholarly classic reading and Spooktober’s chilling thrills, I thought Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House would be an excellent final post for September’s Scholarly Reading Month. Not only is Shirley Jackson an absolute beast of a horror writer in the best possible way, but The Haunting of Hill House serves…
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Somewhere in the Dark by R.J. Jacobs – A Psychological Thriller You Need to Read
At less than 300 pages, Somewhere in the Dark won’t take up a full afternoon to read, but I promise you, you will be thinking about it for the rest of the night. Somewhere in the Dark is my second R.J. Jacobs read in a week, but I admit that it is the one I…
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A Chilling Thriller in R.J. Jacobs’s Always the First to Die
R.J. Jacobs blew me away with This Is How We End Things, so I decided to pick up two more books of his, Alway the First to Die and Somewhere in the Dark. Always the First to Die intrigued me upon reading the blurb and as the story fleshed itself out, I couldn’t help but…
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My Take on The Silent Patient
Having read The Maidens earlier this month, I decided to pick up The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides to see what his debut novel is about. Across the board, I was satisfied but there were a couple of details that didn’t sit well with me and hindered my overall enjoyment of the book, especially the…
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The Maidens Threw Me For A Loop
I went into this thinking The Maidens by Alex Michaelides was going to be a dark academia read similar to that of If We Were Villains. I was wrong. The Maidens is not simply a dark academia book – its adult crime fiction. If you had the same thinking as me, then let this be…