Dinara Tengri

"Familiar" is the eighth episode of season eleven of The  X-Files. It was written by Benjamin Van Allen and directed by Holly Dale.   After the genre experiment that was " RM9SBG93ZXJZ ", "Familiar" takes us back to the world where  The X-Files  feels the most at home: in a small town plagued by monsters, serial killers and viral paranoia. It's a classic monster of the week that provides us with some good old-fashioned horror and asks interesting questions about human nature. A little boy named Andrew is brutally killed in the small town of Eastwood, Connecticut. Since Andrew was the son of a local police officer, the case falls in the FBI:s jurisdiction, so agents Scully and Mulder are called in to investigate. The local police conclude that it was an animal attack, but the agents have their own theories.  Given the town's history of witch trials and legends of an actual witch who spontaneously self-combusted, Mulder suspec...

First, an announcement. Our special Silent Fear Halloween giveaway is now over , and we have picked our winners. Well, Rafflecopter's picked our winners. Your names will remain anonymous, of course, but we will be contacting you very soon (like, right after I finish writing this post).  It's Halloween, and instead of trying on my new costume for the upcoming Halloween party, I'm drinking cough medicine, and chewing on breath mints like they were... well, breath mints.  Being sick sucks, especially when you had your whole week planned out down to the littlest detail.  But since there is nothing I can do about my physical state right now, I might as well make the best of my predicament and finish the second half of the latest book review double feature. Last week, I reviewed Udda Verklighet , literary debut of author Nene Ormes. It's an urban dark fantasy with elements of horror and romance. Since the book is written  isSwedish, I decided to wri...

Welcome to another round of 2017 Halloween Special!  Udda Verklighet is the literary debut of the Swedish author Nene Ormés. Published in 2010, this dark fantasy novel is the first in the De Sära series. What made this book so interesting to me was that it's about Malmö, my hometown. "Udda verklighet" is Swedish for "odd reality", but it's really a play on words, because Udda is also the name of the heroine. "De sära" is Swedish for "the special ones". And that concludes our crash course in Swedish, because I will be writing two reviews - one in Swedish, and one in English. Happy Halloween! Titel: Udda Verklighet (De Sära, #1) Författare: Nene Ormes Utgivningsdatum: 10.05.27. Förlag: Styxx I en dröm ser Udda en kvinna som flyr för sitt liv i spårområdet vid Malmö Central. I jakten efter sanningen bakom drömmen försvinner Uddas vän Daniel spårlöst och när Udda tvingar sig ner i gångarna under spårområdet för att leta ef...

It's Halloween the whole month of October here on my blog. I'm kicking off this week with a list. I rummaged my shelves to find all the horror and horror-related titles I own, and then, I took pictures, Bookstagram style. Speaking of which you can follow me on Instagram on @dinaratengri.  Now, to the books! Urban horror (in Swedish) Creepypasta: Spökhistorier från Internet : by Jack Werner is a collection of the most famous creepypastas with commentaries by the author. You can read my review to find out more.    Udda Verklighet  is the debut novel by author Nene Ormes. I don't know anything about it other than it's set in my hometown, Malmö.   Mad Scientists Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  was written by Robert Louis Stevenson? Not many people know that. It's a great book, and I don't think all those movies do it justice.   Frankenstein by Marry Shelley is a book I read many years ago, and it's t...

Here at Reading My Way Through Life we love Halloween. Well, I love Halloween. And I always want to do something special for Halloween. Last year, it was Halloween Week  where I was reviewing books and TV shows for a whole week. This year, I'm dedicating the whole month of October to this spooky pseudo-holiday. To start off, I'm reviewing Stephen King's It , the audio version. I started listening to this audiobook way back in July, and I had no idea I would be reviewing It for Halloween. It was just a lucky coincidence. So, let's get to the book that took me a good three months to get through. Title: It Author: Stephen King Year of publishing: 1986 Audiobook adaptation published  in 2010 by Penguin Audiobooks. Narrated by: Steven Weber They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force ...

It's day 7 of Halloween Week 2016, and today I'm talking about an old TV-episode I saw last night.  Home was first aired on October 11, 1996 in the USA, and it's considered to be one of the scariest  episodes in the history of television. I watched it for the first time last night, and I have mixed feelings about it.  This review will contain some spoilers for the episode, and even for some events that unfold later in the show.  When a body of a deformed baby is found buried in a small community of Home, the suspicions turn to the Peacocks - a family of inbreds who have been living in isolation ever since the American Civil War. When the agents, together with the sheriff start investigating, the Peacocks will stop at nothing to protect their home.   First of all, Home is a beautifully shot and very well-directed episode. I think this was the first time I was paying attention to the camera angles and the camera movements, because they're just beautiful. ...