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ction of physics optics history and pulp fiction skip to content home about skulls in the stars classic science papers the 2008 challenge mathematical methods for optics older posts the night guest by hildur knútsdóttir posted on may 3 2026 by skullsinthestars book 12 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year i ve basically rallied and caught myself up as usual my link to the book is through my bookshop org affiliate account which means i may earn a small commission if you buy from there social media is a really good place to encounter authors and works that are new to you recently i came across hildur knútsdóttir s book the night guest 2025 through her bluesky account and was intrigued to read a horror story set in reykjavík iceland and written by an icelandic author and i m glad i did the night guest is a short and fast paced novel that manages to build up an incredibly amount of dread over its 224 pages continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in horror tagged book review book reviews books fiction horror leave a comment an interview with author ramsey campbell posted on april 25 2026 by skullsinthestars i ve posted many times on this blog about the work of ramsey campbell and he is not only my favorite horror author but one of my favorite authors of all time in my opinion his ability to build a sense of subtle dread in the mundane aspects of modern life is virtually unmatched and his stories are some of the few that have genuinely unsettled me when reading them i recently received a complimentary copy of his recently reprinted novel incarnate from flame tree press and the publisher also offered me the opportunity to do an email interview with him which i jumped at the chance to do once i decided i had some interesting questions to ask in this post i share the full interview which was a delight to do continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in horror horror masters interviews tagged book review books fiction horror interview writing leave a comment the lost village by camilla sten posted on april 23 2026 by skullsinthestars book 11 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year largely caught up at this point as usual my link to the book is through my bookshop org affiliate account which means i may earn a small commission if you buy from there i am a sucker for stories about old creepy abandoned places an abandoned mine an abandoned house an abandoned ship an abandoned village all literary catnip for me so when i came across camilla sten s the lost village 2022 i didn t hesitate to snap it up sten is a swedish author and the lost village apparently first appeared in swedish in 2019 and was translated into english in 2022 the book was a critical and international success launching the career of the now prolific sten continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in horror tagged book review book reviews books fiction reviews leave a comment what stalks the deep by t kingfisher posted on april 13 2026 by skullsinthestars book 10 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year catching up a bit now as usual my link to the book is through my bookshop org affiliate account which means i may earn a small commission if you buy from there sometimes i don t even remember when or why exactly i bought a book to read after purchase they get put on one of several to read piles throughout my house and i very often lose track of them for a while while tidying up this weekend however i happened across what stalks the deep 2025 by t kingfisher and it seemed like a perfect read for the weekend this is the third book in the sworn soldier series after what moves the dead and what feasts at night which i haven t read you might wonder why i started with the third book and i wondered too when i came across my copy again but then i read the book blurb and i understood it s about people venturing into a mine that may be haunted continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in horror tagged book review book reviews books horror t kingfisher leave a comment dead astronauts by jeff vandermeer posted on april 11 2026 by skullsinthestars book 9 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year still running a little behind but not catastrophically as usual my link to the book is through my bookshop org affiliate account which means i may earn a small commission if you buy from there i ve long been a fan of jeff vandermeer s writings his 2009 horror science fiction novel finch is one of my favorite books of all time and his southern reach trilogy is one of my favorite trilogies of all time i haven t read anything by him recently however so i decided it was time to check out his 2019 novel dead astronauts dead astronauts is a sequel to vandermeer s 2017 novel borne with the same setting kind of more below but different characters i had read borne when it first came out and only dimly remembered it but feel i can safely say one doesn t need to read borne to follow the newer book kind of more below continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in 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show some support it also happens that i m a little behind in my reading goal for the year so reading something short and light would help to get me back on track also i have always had a great fondness for the mothman legend and the mothman prophecies 2002 is one of my favorite movies of all time finally i ve been reading choose your own adventure books since the very first one the cave of time came out in 1979 going back and visiting the series again was a nice bit of nostalgia for me continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in entertainment horror tagged book review book reviews books reading leave a comment mexican gothic by silvia moreno garcia posted on march 22 2026 by skullsinthestars book 7 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year running a little behind but should be able to make it up pretty easily as usual my link to the book is through my bookshop org affiliate account which means i may earn a small commission if you buy from there back in 2024 i read silvia moreno garcia s gods of jade and shadow a modern fairy tale set in the jazz age of mexico and was charmed by its creativity moreno garcia is a mexican born canadian writer and her works are steeped in mexican culture and history making them a wonderful departure for someone like me who is often reading works set in the united states a few weeks ago i decided to check out moreno garcia s follow up 2021 book mexican gothic which as the title suggests is a gothic horror novel the book is a slow burn of mystery and dread set in 1950s mexico that builds to a genuinely horrific revelation continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in horror tagged book review book reviews books fiction horror 1 comment coulomb s remarkable experiment in electricity 1785 posted on march 19 2026 by skullsinthestars though people have studied and been fascinated by electricity and magnetism including such luminaries as benjamin franklin we can really trace the beginning of modern electromagnetic theory to one specific experiment in 1785 in which the french physicist charles augustin de coulomb quantitatively measured the force between two electrically charged objects the law of attraction he found known as coulomb s law set the stage for all of our understanding and progress in electromagnetism including the computer and internet you re reading this on i was a little bored this week and it so happens i have an electronic copy of coulomb s original paper 1 of 1785 and decided to translate it from french and write about it as always i used a mixture of my own crude understanding of french combined with google translate to do this coulomb s experiment is truly amazing important and beautiful and it was quite fun to see the details of how he did it continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in history of science physics tagged electricity history of science physics 1 comment talking falling feline physics in the nyt posted on march 12 2026 by skullsinthestars it so happens that the falling felines research that came out recently and that i blogged about last week has been getting a lot of news attention a journalist at the new york times contacted me for comments about the research and the article came out yesterday wanted to share the link here and include a snippet of the article for my own records though i tend to argue that we largely understand the mechanisms by which cats flip over there are some subtleties in the motion that are worth exploring and it is fascinating that people are still fascinated by the problem to this day share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in animals personal physics leave a comment incarnate by ramsey campbell posted on march 8 2026 by skullsinthestars book 6 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year running a little behind but should be able to make it up pretty easily as usual my link to the book is through my bookshop org affiliate account which means i may earn a small commission if you buy from there ramsey campbell has long been acknowledged as one of the masters of horror fiction and is probably my favorite horror author of all time flame tree press has been publishing his new novels for a while now and have started reprinting some of his classic books and they sent me a complimentary copy of the most recent reprint incarnate which was first published in 1983 this was a double happy surprise for me not only am i always happy to get a complimentary copy of a book by a favorite author but once i started reading it i realized that i somehow had never read incarnate before this in itself is not surprising because campbell has such an extensive bibliography it s easy to miss a book if you haven t been systematic about it incarnate is a fascinating compelling intricate book and one that stands out from a lot of campbell s other novels in ways that i will elaborate on below continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading posted in horror lovecraft 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