The Brimming Brain

Category: Spooky Reads

  • 5 Thoughts on Silk & Sinew

    Cover of "Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora". The cover has a black background with brown text that transitions from golden to reddish-brown. A woman wearing a dress and mask that seem to be made of coiling roots and vines is the same brown colors.

    Spooky Reads 2025 has official commenced for me and the first book is laid to rest. I decided to begin this year’s binge of the macabre with Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora edited by Kristy Park Kulski. Anthologies and folk horror being some of my favorite stuff to read, I figured this would be a good start to get the grinder motor running, and it certainly was.

    My girlfriend used to write and help manage a comic book site that has retired, and I would occasionally write some guest posts there. They had “5 Thoughts” format in place of reviews and recaps that I really liked and want to borrow/steal/use here. So here are five thoughts I have on this book:

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  • Spooky Reads 2025

    Spooky Reads 2025

    At the start of 2025, one of the goals I set for myself was that I wanted to refresh my website and begin writing here again. I got the site freshened up, and then it just sort of sat there. Until now. As we are approaching the Spooky Season, it means that I am on the verge of beginning of Spooky Reads 2025 and I decided that it would be an ideal time to start writing. This will be a good way for me to better reflect on what I am reading and share various thoughts I may have about the books I read for Spooky Reads.

    What is Spooky Reads 2025?

    First off, Spooky Reads is not anything official. Back in 2018 for the last two weeks or so of October (based on my Goodreads history), I decided to binge read horror novels and then decided to do the same thing the following years. As with many holidays, the start of Spooky Reads has crept earlier and earlier, until I am now beginning around the end of August or the beginning of September. It is not anything official, rather just something fun that I do, but anyone is welcome to join me in a their own little personal horror reading fest.

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