A Touch of Magic: Fantasy Books Month at Fully Booked
Happy 2021! Here’s hoping for a wonderful New Year for the world, and bookworms in particular. We’re so grateful to be able to create and share our content, and even more so to you for reading it. That said, we wanted to kick the new…
How Stephen King Uses Snow As An Isolating Element In His Books
The weather outside is frightful you say? Well thankfully you don’t have to venture outdoors if you don’t want to. Instead, you can curl up by the fireplace and read some chilling tales of murderous maniacs, blizzards, and the folks stuck indoors with them. With…
Snug Like Santa: Winter Books & Holiday at Fully Booked
Time To Pull Out the Winter Books! It’s December 1st you say? Looks like it’s time to trim the tinsel, sip the cocoa curl up by the fire with a snow filled winter books – that way you experience the weather without actually having to…
Nevermore: The Mysterious Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore” Appreciation article time! I’m a self-professed lover of horror and all things Edgar Allan Poe, arguably one of the most famous classic American writers of all time. I have several editions of his, read his stories and poetry regularly, and may…
Back to Basics: Classic Literature Month at Fully Booked
We’ve all read classic literature haven’t we? Whether for a school assignment, a book club or simply for the pleasure of it, at one point or another we’ve picked up a book which is widely – or sometimes debatably – considered to be a classic….
Vampires Never Get Old: Our Top 5 Stories in the Vampire Fiction Collection
Vampire Fiction in Short Form I’ve always been a sucker for a fun collection of short stories; I just love them. They’ve been a way in which I’ve discovered so many different authors, and it’s always such a treat in between full length novels that…
Coraline & The Graveyard Book: Neil Gaiman’s Scariest Stories
Neil Gaiman is by far one of my favourite authors. He has consistently provided the world with extraordinary stories that take place in our ordinary world, and by doing so he has made the ordinary whimsical. The following Neil Gaiman scary stories, are in my…
Witches In Literature: Which Witch is Which?
Throughout history you will find mentions and whispers of witches in literature. From Circe, the first witch mentioned in western literature, to Hecate, Morgan le Fay, Baba Yaga, the Wicked Witch of the West, and the most recent witch starlet— Hermione Granger. Who were witches…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Explained
Every Halloween you start hearing whispers about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horsemen. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is considered one of America’s first horror ghost stories and it scared the bejeebies out early settlers. Why be worried about witches when the Headless Horsemen was…
Exclusive: The Spirit in the Crypt: Q&A with Author Alexander Lound
Spook-tacular greetings to all! We at Fully Booked were recently given the opportunity to read the debut novel in Alexander Lound’s young adult Jonny Roberts series, The Spirit in the Crypt. This reader thoroughly enjoyed it, and wanted to get a little more insight into…
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