i've been reading a lot of horror lately and I needed a break so I downloaded the Sword of Shannara audiobook

and it's such an old recording it was originally on cassette tape

it's really weird hearing "this narration continues on the Nth cassette tape"

takes me back to when I had the redwall tapes with the author narrating

I remember being at a panel with him (or someone who knew him? but I think it was him) and I remember him saying he wrote an ending to Shannara because he took the Wheel of Time and what happened as a huge cautionary tale.

any good horror recently?

I really enjoyed The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, its basically a slasher story mixed with indigenous culture

also The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, the author took the short story the Willows and turned it into a full-length novel with even more surrealism

ooh, I'll check these out

the characters in the only good indians are of the blackfeet tribe (the author is blackfeet), and the audiobook is also narrated by a native american, which was pretty cool

and the hollow places has a legit friendship between a woman and a man that doesn't turn romantic at any point (because the dude is super gay) and it's great