The standout books I read for the first time (or so long ago it may as well be for the
first time) in 2015 in the order in which I read them:
Spectral Book of Horror Stories – Mark
Morris (.ed) 2014
ISIS:
Inside the Army of Terror – Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan 2015
The Amulet – Michael McDowell 1979
The Implacable Hunter – Gerald Kersh
1961
Zeroville – Steve Erickson 2007
The Lady in the Morgue – Jonathan
Latimer 1936
Redheads Die Quickly – Gil Brewer 1951 –
1959
In a Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes
1947
Death Wish – Brian Garfield 1972
The Climate of Hell – Herbert Lieberman
1978
The Beast – Hugh Fleetwood 1978
Closing Time – Jack Ketchum 2007
Communities of Violence: Persecution of
Minorities in the Middle Ages – David Nirenberg 1996
Consumed – David Cronenberg 2015
Without a Stitch in Time – Peter De
Vries 1972
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost
History of Esoteric Writing – Arthur M. Meelzer 2014
Little Apple – Leo Perutz 1928
Bruges-la-Morte (& The Death Throes
of Towns) – Georges Rodenbach 1892
The Dreamers – Gilbert Adair 2004
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition –
David Nirenberg 2013
Where the Caged Bird Sings Best –
Alejandro Jodorowsky 1992/2014
The Fetish – Alberto Moravia 1963
Daymare & Other Tales From the Pulps
– Frederic Brown 1943 – 1947
Books Worthy of Mention
The Valentine Estate – Stanley Ellin 1968
Nightmares & Geezenstacks – Frederic
Brown 1961
Maigret & the Idle Burglar – Georges
Simenon 1961
The Flemish House – Georges Simenon 1932
