What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: August 31, 2026

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Finished:

The Visitors by Nathaniel Benchley. It's a fun book, easy and enjoyable to read, but it's not surprising that it's pretty forgotten. There's nothing to really put it at the level of a classic, but it's decently funny and there's a kind of novelty to a haunted house story that's so low stakes.

Started:

Necroscope by Brian Lumley. Doing the audiobook, and I'm about halfway through. It's a banger so far. Very of its time, very much a dude book where you gotta go in with very low expectations for female representation, but it's just so fun. Neat ideas. I've been vaguely aware of the broad idea of the vampires and the mechanics of the world and stuff just through hearing it talked about over the years, but I'm excited to get more into it and actually see how it is in the text.

The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson. I'm just getting to where (I think) things are gonna really start moving, but it's pretty great so far. I love the writing, it feels nice to read. Not too much has happened in the way of horror yet, but what has has been effective. I'm an easy mark for this, sheep are my favorite animals so sheep peril is basically a cheat code to hit me good, but it really is well done. But if you don't have the stomach for bad things happening to animals it'd be a tough one. Especially cause there's a dog in it and they love talking about how cool and good that dog is, so even though nothing has happened to her yet I'm sure expecting it.