The Nocturnal Reader's Box

          This is the Nocturnal Reader's box for October. It has three books, a T-shirt or a tote bag, a bar glass, on of three types of candles, a patch, and an art print. I'm going to start with the books.

          The first book is What The Hell Did I Just Read? By David Wong and it is the Sequel to This Book is Full of Spiders though each can be read as stand alone. 1 in 3 copies are signed and I got one of the signed ones. From GoodReads: "NYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi thriller, set in the world of John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of Spiders Dave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear that someone is lying, and that someone is the narrators. The novel you're reading is a cover-up, and the "true" story reveals itself in the cracks of their hilariously convoluted, and sometimes contradictory, narrative."

          

          The new release for this box is Valancourt Book of Horror Stories by Various Authors. From GoodReads: "Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the late 18th century all the way to the early 21st. In this second volume of rare horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fourteen tales – all by Valancourt authors – for this new collection spanning two centuries of horror. This volume features a previously unpublished ghost story by Nevil Shute, a brand-new tale by award-winning author Stephen Gregory, and twelve other tales that have never or seldom been reprinted. In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, possession, demonic pacts, and ancient, nameless horrors. Stories of the weird and macabre, of a man tormented by an age-old evil, a corpse returned from the dead, a brutal killer with a shocking secret, a contraption with the power to trap its victims eternally inside a nightmare. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly humorous, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other."

          The previously release book, Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael MacDowell, shows how terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swamps. Margaret Larkin has been robbed of her innocence -- and her life. Her killer is rich and powerful, beyond the grasp of earthly law. Now, in the murky depths of the local river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. It will watch him from the trees. And in the chill waters of the river, it will claim him in the ultimate embrace. The cold moon rises, the awful squishing sounds begin.. (from GoodReads)

          Next comes the tote bag since I don't like t-shirts. It is inspired by The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. I love tote bags since they are very useful too me.

          The box also includes a very nice bar glass inspired by American Gods an features the funeral parlor.

          Dark Carnival is the NaturaAmantis candle I got. It is inspired by Something Wicked This Way Comes and is one of three possible candles you could have gotten. It is apple, cinnamon and caramel and as soon as I opened the lid the smell hit gloriously!

          Finally, there was a Ring Series Patch by Koji Suzuki featuring the creepy Sadako Yamamura and an Art Print by Ivan Belikov.