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Mike Fredette
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Educator. Books, music & etc. CR: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due
Book-mail: Stephen King’s Carrie, the musical tie-in edition. Carrie debuted at Broadway’s Virginia Theater in April 1988. #stephenking #carriethemusical #horrorfiction #signetpaperback #constantreader
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Book(ish) mail: Holly, Stephen King slipcase from Cemetery Dance Publications.
January 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Cat of Many Tails, Ellery Queen [Penzler, 1949]

New York City is preyed upon by a serial killer dubbed “The Cat.”Amateur consulting detective Ellery Queen is appointed as a special investigator. The crimes seem random—until Queen detects a pattern reveals the identity of the killer.
January 26, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Q:Where did Edgar Allan Poe shop for clothes?

A: Casual Male & Maelström
January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Return of the Maltese Falcon, Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime, 2026].

Legendary PI Sam Spade is back of the case in this atmospheric sequel set in Prohibition-era San Francisco.
January 21, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Reacher, Lee Child [Mysterious Press, 2025].

A writer’s memoir comprised of a series of essays by the semi-retired Child.
January 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Big Lizard, Joe R. Lansdale and Keith Lansdale [Encyclopocalypse Publications, 2020].

Buster, a security guard at Pick-a-Chicken, a fried chicken restaurant where patrons select and slaughter their own poultry, uncovers the occult machinations behind the restaurant’s success.
January 19, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Weird Fiction—An Anthology
[Penguin, 2024].

A collection of Weird Fiction featuring Poe, Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton, Lovecraft, W.W. Jacobs & etc.
January 18, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Speaks the Nightbird, Vol II: Evil Unveiled, Robert R. McCammon [Pocket, 2003].

In the concluding volume of Speaks the Nightbird, Matthew Corbett investigates a series of murders in a remote colonial outpost, seeking to exonerate a woman convicted of witchcraft.
January 15, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Speaks the Nightbird: Vol. 1, Judgement of the Witch, Robert R. McCammon [Pocket, 2002].

In the year 1699, Matthew Corbett, a 20-year old assistant to a magistrate, makes a perilous journey to a remote colonial outpost, Fount Royal, where a beautiful young widow is accused of witchcraft and murder.
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
King Sorrow, Joe Hill [Morrow, 2025].

Beginning in the year 1989, King Sorrow focuses on the lives of six friends on the campus of a small New England university. One of the group is being extorted by a local dirtbag couple, who make credible threats against his mother…
January 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
John Lennon memorial—Central Park. #johnlennon
December 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these, the homeless tempest toss’d to me…”

“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus [1883]
December 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood, Poppy Z. Brite [Penguin, 1995].

A chapbook comprised of four stories in the Splatterpunk vein, issued to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Penguin Books.
December 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Fiddlers, Ed McBain [Harcourt, 2005].

In the fictitious American city, Isola, the detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate a string of murders, perpetrated by a killer with a personal grudge against each of the victims. The superb 55th (!) and final installment in the classic series.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Past Tense, Lee Child [Delacorte, 2018].

Jack Reacher travels to his father’s hometown of Laconia, NH where he uncovers a family mystery…meanwhile a deadly game of cat and mouse plays out in the nearby countryside. A stellar entry in the long-running series.
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Some snaps at Stephen King’s Bangor residence. #stephenking
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bangor, ME
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Portsmouth NH
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Oriental Jade.
Bangor, ME.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Living Dead, George Romero and Daniel Kraus [Penguin, 2020].

An original work of fiction—a Post-Apocalyptic zombie epic—describing the immediate aftermath and the future Second Dark Age, ten years after the outbreak from legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In the Mouth of Madness, Sutter Cane [Arcane, 2025].

A mind bending work of meta fiction about the search for a missing horror novelist.
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The Phantom of the Opera
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My post was included on Joe R. Lansdale’s Instagram story!
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale.

New collection of Joe R. Lansdale’s best short horror fiction with an introduction by Joe Hill. Collects great stories like “The God of the Razor,” “By Bizarre Hands,” “The Night They Missed the Horror Show,” “Fish Night” & etc.
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM