So far this year I’ve read (or read again) 23 books. It’s been an especially great run, as you can see. My favorites, like always, are marked with an asterisk.

Nightfall by David Goodis*
Cassidy’s Girl by David Goodis*
Night Squad by David Goodis
The Psychographist by Carson Winter*
Threshold by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Thrust by Tom Piccirilli*
The King is Dead by Walter Tevis
Flood by Andrew Vachss*
Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
Kindred by Octavia Butler*
Welcome to Hell: A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer by Tom Piccirilli*
The Witch Elm by Tana French*
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories by Jeff Esterholm*
Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror(s) by Gordon B. White*
Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Editors)
Futile Efforts by Tom Piccirilli*
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale
Impossible Things by Connie Willis
The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt*
You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror (Stephen Jones, Editor)*
Campfires of the Dead and the Living by Peter Christopher*
Notice by Heather Lewis*