 | Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.92 4 out of 5 - I preferred this to Smoke and Mirrors, his previous short story collection. This one seemed more consistent .
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 | Virus by Sarah Langan
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 5 out of 5 - even better than the excellent debut, The Keeper. Her complex yet compelling small town tales could make her the next Peter Straub (that's a big compliment, by the way)
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 | The Terror by Dan Simmons
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.62 5 out of 5 - a major achievement - a 900+ page book that I read in a week! Good supernatural sequences blended into fascinating, well-researched historical docu-drama.
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 | The Stormwatcher by Graham Joyce
Buy used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - excellently written and intriguing, I disliked all the main characters though - not sure if it was author's intention, but Joyce is fast becoming my second-favourite British author (!)
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 | Mr. Hands by Gary A Braunbeck
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.59 4 out of 5 - Very good, if a little short (it's bulked up by an equally good novella), I'll be trying some more from this author.
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 | Hide and Seek by Jack Ketchum
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £10.71 4 out of 5 - Not at his evil best, but still streets ahead in portraying non-supernatural horror, created by the kind of people you may live next door to.....
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 | Nightscape by David Morrell
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - good short stories, with an excellent novella, "Rio Grande Gothic" which is almost worth the price on it's own
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 | Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel (Repairman Jack Novels) by F. Paul Wilson
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £2.12 5 out of 5 - After a slow start (Legacies), the Repairman Jack series has gone from strength to strength - looking forward to seeing how it all ties up with the original Adversary series.
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 | Blaze by Stephen King
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - an undemanding, enjoyable "quickie" - apparently from King's pre-fame days. A bit heavy-handed and obvious in it's attempts to elicit sympathy for the protagonist, but just about succeeds
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 | Red (and bonus novella 'The Traveller') by Jack Ketchum
Buy used from: £0.14 5 out of 5 - Red is a revenge tale, a bit gentler than Ketchum's usual mayhem, you find yourself rooting for the hero. Excellent. Bonus novella The Passenger is equally as good, but more brutal.
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 | Somewhere South of Midnight by Stephen Laws
Buy used from: £0.01 3.5 out of 5 - a fantastic beginning and a tense climax just about compensates for the rather dull middle section - Laws is an underrated writer, but I found this to be one of his lesser efforts
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 | The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 4.5 out of 5 - eerie, hallucinatory, confusing, surreal, etc etc. - business as usual for the best horror writer alive, an unusual story about a writer researching a forgotten silent comedian.
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 | Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £1.82 4 out of 5 - despite it's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach (zombies, psychos, ghosts, werewolves, scarecrows etc) this is pretty entertaining stuff, will read the rest of the trilogy.
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 | Old Flames by Jack Ketchum
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £0.48 4 out of 5 - two novellas, Old Flames is ok, like Mills & Boon directed by Peckinpah, Right to Life is excellent, a real nail-biting kidnap and torture tale. You don't always get happy endings!
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 | Coffin County (Leisure Fiction) by Gary A. Braunbeck
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £2.25 4 out of 5 - King had Castle Rock, Grant had Oxrun Station, and now Braunbeck chronicles the bloodthirsty history of his own haunted town, Cedar Hill. A good supernatural serial killer story.
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 | The Dead Letters by Tom Piccirilli
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.43 5 out of 5 - my first Piccirilli - and it won't be my last. This is a brilliantly written psycho thriller, with the odd surreal touch. He should be huge! But isn't......
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 | The Deluge (Leisure Fiction) (Leisure Fiction) by Mark Morris
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - this one has had some poor reviews, but I quite liked it, reminded me structurally of Cell, mixed with The Thing. Morris doesn't hold back on the gruesome descriptions either.
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 | A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
Buy used from: £2.99 4 out of 5 - a thick, potent atmosphere envelops this steamy southern gothic, packed with bizarre, freakish characters. The story seems almost secondary to the general weirdness. Recommended!!!
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 | In Silent Graves by Gary A. Braunbeck
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £1.97 3 out of 5 - After a haunting, harrowing first section with the death of a wife and unborn child, we then enter a muddled, heavy-going ,sub-Barker metaphysical world - which spoils this brave book.
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 | Headstone City by Tom Piccirilli
Buy new: £3.63 / Used from: £1.57 5 out of 5 - an excellent, snappily written wiseguy thriller is elevated yet further with a liberal sprinkling of supernatural action. Gritty black humour also peppers this great story.
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 | The Immaculate by Mark Morris
Buy used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - atmospheric ghost story, about going back to your roots and making peace with the past.....the ghosts are less scary than the human monsters in this book. Nice twist too.
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 | Cabal by Clive Barker
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - nearly classic Barker, shorter than his usual epics, fast-paced, gory, mystical - just lacks the dazzling scope of a Weaveworld or ..Secret Show.
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 | Banquet for the Damned by Adam L.G. Nevill
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £3.37 5 out of 5 - in attempting to bring the classic ghost stories of James, Blackwood et al. bang up to date, Nevill has done something remarkable - he has written a book that is worthy of those masters.
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 | The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.43 4 out of 5 - lacks the pizzazz of previous Pics I've read, but still an above average thriller, with the trademark weird twists and bizarre characters
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 | The Perils and Dangers of This Night by Stephen Gregory
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 4 out of 5 - a slow, stately English gothic - the atmospheric setting is the star of the show, but the thriller elements are enjoyable too. Virgin Books are doing a great service to the horror shelves
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