Started: August 2
Finished: August 8
Notes: I've read a fair amount of fantasy and sci-fi so far this year, so I thought I'd turn for a while to one of my earliest genre loves, horror. I used to read a lot more horror than I have in recent years, so this should be a nice change of pace, and kicking things off with Richard Laymon can't be bad.
Mini review: This one is a slight not toward Badbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. It's the 1960s, and a Traveling Vampire Show comes to a small town, and of course some curious young teens have to go look into things because ... well, because they're curious young teens. This one reads quick, and the writing is pretty solid, but it's definitely a slow burn of a horror novel. A few odd things happen, but there's really not much of a horror element until the last eighth of the tale, and then not everything is explained (though I don't have a problem with that). Not a bad read, but I usually prefer my horror fiction to have a stronger build than this one.
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