I already hinted at this one in my November reading list so if you’ve been following my reading journey in 2025, this last instalment of Book Talk for 2025 shouldn’t be a surprise. But in case you didn’t know, every December since 2020, I’ve been leaning into my annual, end-of-the-year round of existential dread and reading perhaps the most terrifying sci-fi series ever written. At least to me anyway. It’s a tradition, don’t worry about it. But there’s just something about the snow—and it finally snowed here last week—that makes me look at the night sky and think about the horrors that hide in it.  I know that sounds unhinged.…