The big waves of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe had not occurred yet, so the accents of those learning to speak the main language of the city, English, would have been most heavily influence by the English, Scottish, and Irish who immigrated to the city or were engaged in maritime trade there. Here’s the one we wrote about The Body by Stephen King:Īt the time, New York City had immigrants mostly from northern Europe and what’s now known as the UK.

We were asked to write about our personal experience of reading those books. That title had to begin with “The best books…” The image below shows the title we chose and the five books we selected. We were asked to give that category a name that would become the title of our post. It included questions about us, the novel, and what five books by other authors were our favorites that might fall within a similar category. The suggestion approved by, we received a template to fill out. Charming, provocative, funny, and creepy as Hell, Night Birds will shake you up before leaving you all warm and fuzzy inside. The chapters consider themes of mental illness, religion, sexual orientation, witchcraft, and death as seen through the eyes of this plucky girl growing up in a haunted house in the 1960's. Killer Lake – W.D.In Night Birds, Lucy's grandmother, Annie Maude, may be a witch, her school's lunch lady might be a murderer, and a mysterious figure stalks her in the small South Carolina town where she lives.Goodreads Horror Aficionados Group Read with Guest Authors.

Kim Hastings on Interview with Ronald Kel…Ĭhuck Stuart on Interview with Ronald Kel… You can also follow my reviews at the following links: The fact that he can throw in a handful of chills along the way, makes it a fun ride. It makes the characters extremely realistic and full of depth. Its a blue-collar, non-nonsense approach that elevates the story to being a 5-star masterpiece. Curran does a masterful job telling the story from Johnny’s POV. What makes Long Black Coffin great is the storytelling. In fact, it feels like something in the GTO is calling him.

When Kurt gets drunk, he tortures himself with wondering why Vic killed himself and, lately, he’s been doing it more and more often. His abusive old man wrapped his lips around a loaded shot gun, one night, in the front seat of his black 1967 Pontiac GTO and pulled the trigger. Him and his buddy, Kurt, like to drink too much, get high too much and ponder life too much. His mom ran off, long ago, with some swinging dick and his dad sat and drank his life away. He lives with his sister in their parents old house. Johnny Breede is your typical mid-twenties guy trying to figure out what he wants out of life while he puts in his time down at the lumber yard. Long Black Coffin is a working class ghost story set in a small town in Wisconsin. Tim Curran’s Long Black Coffin actually gave me shivers – yes, shivers – and that’s something that hasn’t happened in a very long time.

Long Black Coffin by Tim Curran