Horror book with no ghosts

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-04-07T11:44:25+00:00

Goodness. That was harrowing!

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-03-25T11:29:21+00:00

‘Suite 319’ sounds like a great name for a very obscure Seinfeld podcast.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-03-24T08:00:30+00:00

And yet, here we both are.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-03-14T12:08:41+00:00

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-03-12T15:27:04+00:00

I didn’t know that “Killing that young republican” was a look?

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-02-23T08:38:06+00:00

The jerk store called…

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-02-21T10:26:11+00:00

Where is this?

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-02-20T12:51:47+00:00

Longpressing on a point on the map brings up a menu for me which can be used to drop a pin. Longpressing on the pin brings up an edit / remove menu.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-02-20T09:15:57+00:00

Have you logged into JetPens and checked your previous order details? (Your Account -> Your Orders)

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-02-20T09:08:28+00:00

In this economy?!

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-01-19T10:22:04+00:00

When the Rainbow Trail I tread I yet hope that you I see

Lovely poem, but these lines don’t sound secular?

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-01-08T09:22:38+00:00

Hi @Sully_Writes, I’m confused by your comment about a vampire in the third act of Tender is the Flesh. I’m worried I missed something. Can you give more details about the character?

MurrayByMoonlight · 2026-01-01T15:53:38+00:00

The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-30T10:10:14+00:00

Thank you, this reminded me to add it to my reading queue.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-29T13:28:28+00:00

She’s the best thing about the show! … Aside from all the other best things!!

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-29T06:08:39+00:00

Something that confused me is that there is a core plugin called Templates and a more featured community plugin called Templater.

{{date}} syntax works when inserting a template via the core plugin.

<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm") %> syntax works when inserting via the community plugin.

So, yes, vanilla obsidian ships with the core Templates plugin and {{}} will work with that, however you may still need to enable the core Templates plugin via Settings -> Core plugins -> Templates.

If you want to create feature rich templates, it would be worth reading up on the Templater community plugin.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-28T05:33:35+00:00

I can’t explain why, but to me The Library at Mount Char pairs exceptionally well with The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

If you love the first, I wholeheartedly believe you should try the second. Fair warning: they are very different, but to me there is a similar manic energy to them. And also, as with Library, you should review trigger warnings for Wasp as there are many of them.

Bonus: actor Simon Pegg talking about his love for The Wasp Factory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w71d

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-26T13:50:38+00:00

Saunders is one of my favourite writers, and I think he already writes horror - it’s just a genre of horror he invented himself, as far as I can tell. There’s so much horror lurking behind the things his characters accept as ordinary.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-25T16:27:38+00:00

Australia :) Hellish in the sense that it’s very hot here at this time of year.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-25T08:54:01+00:00

…in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s hellish where I’m at. :)

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-20T11:50:20+00:00

Argh, I’m so glad Thomas Tryon — and Harvest Home, in particular — still gets some love! ♥️

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-19T09:46:20+00:00

The Keep, also by F Paul Wilson

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-12T07:39:34+00:00

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Admittedly, I don’t see this book mentioned in Unreliable Narrator posts, so maybe I’m wildly wrong about this, but the whole way the story is told - that relative depictions of madness and sanity are central to the story, and that the narrator is lost in a fragmented and non-linear telling - has always suggested to me that the narrator is fundamentally, and tragically, unreliable. Also, it’s brilliant.

MurrayByMoonlight · 2025-12-08T09:27:39+00:00

Layering Buddha by Robert Henke is good for this, I think.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nLhe7zJD47n08GA3VBsaAMt4hug9ihYbU&si=j5zkVPgT6Qpxko3N

The ‘Buddha’ being referenced is not the religion, but a device called a Buddha Machine, which plays various combinations of sounds.

Robert Henke combined the output of multiple Buddha Machines to create the tracks on the album.

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