The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

Monster Mash - Terrifying Tunes and Mournful Music

So,Halloween isn't just about scary stories - or scary films, for that matter - sometimes music can be more evocative of fear than anything we read or watch, sometimes it can compliment both books and movies and sometimes it's just awesome in it's own right.  Today, Cannonball Jones ret…
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Because It Is My Heart (review: Broken by A. E. Rought)

Broken A. E. Rought Strange Chemistry 2012
In this modern day re-imagining of Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emma Gentry is one familiar with the dead (as one would like to expect from any good Gothic heroine).  Well, she at least spends a lot of time in her local cemetery, desperately missing her recently d…
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I Cannot Sleep for Dreamin' (Review: Hollow Pike by James Dawson)

Hollow Pike James Dawson Orion 2012
Lis London is due a new start. Having fled her mother’s house in Wales after enduring a school life of systematic bullying, she finds herself safe in the comfortable home of her sister, situated in the small Yorkshire village of Hollow Pike. On starting school, Lis…
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All Hallows Read

As you all know, I am all about the book-sharing love. It's the way forward and I regularly force people to leave my house laden down with books. And no, this is in no way a nefarious plan to unburden my overworked book cases.  Not at all. Nope. No Way. Well, maybe just a little bit.


But I digre…
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