Weekly Geeks - The Weirdest Thing

The Weekly Geeks would not be Weekly Geek if it did not toss in it's Halloween hat in the fray of all the blogosphere Halloween madness..

We have a guest on Weekly Geek this week and she has cut right to the chase about the weird and wonderful things we have been reading lately and not only because of Halloween...

So I'll tell you mine, make sure you tell me yours......

"---- I've been finding myself wondering if it isn't getting a little WEIRD and CREEPY in here. What with books about vampires (Twilight) and orphaned wizards (Harry Potter) in the mainstream, and a book about a child raised by vampires, werewolves, and ghosts (The Graveyard Book) being on the New York Times children’s best seller list for 52 weeks, it seems like maybe I'm right.

At the same time, I'm a real fan of the weird and creepy and I seek it out. So maybe asking me if things are a little weird in here is like asking a fish if the water feels a little wet today. Maybe my barometer is under water.

1) Tell us about something weird, unusual, terrifying, or creepy you've read lately.

2) Tell us what you think. Are things getting a little more weird and creepy than usual, or less? If your choice for the answer to question number 1 was written in a different decade, what does it say about that era? Maybe you think that the weird and creepy is status quo. Or maybe we’re all like lobsters in a pot, and we can’t tell if things are getting hot in here.

Mine

For this weeks questions, I am not sure I am the best person to answer this question - mainly for the reason that I read 70% Erotica and it all about the smut in those book, irrespective of the genre...

Don't get me wrong there are enough weirdness in erotica to give anyone whiplash - from too much hands to unheard of positions... then there is male pregnancy and the list goes...

...But I think the question was more for the paranormal sort... The latest weirdest sort of thing I read of  in a paranormal nature is from ON THE EDGE - Ilona Andrews

A stench lashed his nose, bitter and harsh, followed by a creepy feeling that something cold and slimy had dripped on the back of his neck. He whirled.

A beast stood on the grass. Five feet tall, it balanced on four skinny legs, its body turned at an angle, its head facing Jack. Its chest was deep, and past it, its body slimmed down, each of its ribs clearly visible, before terminating in powerful hindquarters. It looked like a racing dog. At first glance, the beast’s hide seemed almost black, but when the sun touched its spine, the thick skin stretched over the beast’s back turned a dark smoky purple tinted with black and green, like a bad bruise. It had no fur, only a row of short, sharp spikes running down the backs of its legs and along its spine.

The beast’s head was long, very long, but without any ears. Two pairs of long slanted eyes stared at Jack with dull, weakly glowing gray, like fog backlit by headlights.

In his adventures in the Wood, Jack had looked into the eyes of a dire wolf, a fox, a bear, and countless other things for which he had no name, but none of them had eyes like that. They were cruel eyes. Cruel and merciless like the eyes of a gator.

On The Edge (c) Ilona Andrews

And it only gets worst from there on in. That was one good book....

ON THE EDGE  was paranormal at it's best, so outside of any decade - it had all the stereotypical stuff, but it also had a style of it own which made it a winner in my book...

What's your weirdest read so far....