Shadowland by Peter Straub. Only about 30 pages in, but I'm enjoying it already.

Much better than that fiasco by R.L. Stine.

I read SHADOWLAND a long time ago a thought it was pretty good.
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Just finished this today. Excellent. Some truly creepy stuff, especially the last story, "The Lovely House" by Shirley Jackson, loaded with dreamlike eccentricity and not unlike that line from "Hotel California": You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave. Highly recommended.

Life to the Dead
 

It's based on the black plague era "zombie like" parasitic infection that may have lead to the whole idea of zombies in the first place. I've heard recently that the idea of flesh eating mindless humans comes from the memory of people that were infected with a type of parasitic fungus that controls the body and brain in order to feed itself and find new hosts. It kind of makes sense because 14th century London was a very unsanitary place where people didn't know anything about germs and the whole idea of demon possession was popular. One demon, known as Eurynome, came from that era and was called the eater of corpses.

http://m.npr.org/story/141832947?url...ling-parasites

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Dead-Seth...0002862&sr=8-1

With the power out from Saturday til today i had plenty of time to read so i finished Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghost's and read about halfway through Gord Rollo's Valley of The Scarecrow

What did you think of 20TH Century Ghosts.

Ive heard Shadowland is one of the best horror novel of the 19th century. Also heard its a tough read as Straub likes to put kinda spin you around so to speak.
Let us know how it was please.

I loved it. The stories are amazing. Joe Hill is really good.

yes he is. Heart-shaped Box is still one of my favorite books.

Reading a few more stories out of THE CALL OF CUTHULHU by H.P. Lovecraft: "The Festival" and almost through "He." For some reason these two stories have a different feel to them than the previous ones in this collection. Not sure if it's the strong sense of autobiography oozing from the bizarre nostalgia or superior mastery of the storytelling but --- for me at least --- they are truly gripping and creepy.

I still need to read that and Horns

I loved Heart-Shaped Box. To be honest, I'm starting to like his writing more than his father's. They're both terrific though.