Halloween Reading '10 - Poll

[Scheherazade]

Please nominate the books you would like to read during the Halloween week by October 10th.

[katelbach]

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood - includes The Willows, Secret Worship, Ancient Sorceries, The Glamour of the Snow, The Wendigo, The Other Wing, The Transfer, Ancient Lights, The Listener, The Empty House, Accessory Before the Fact, Keeping His Promise, Max Hensig.

Read most of them but would like to read the rest (and re-read some too). Everyone raves about The Willows, and rightly so, but some of the others are very intense and can't be missed.

[Dark Muse]

I am tempted to nominate Let the Right One In, but it might be a little thick for a week.

So I nominate The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which I have been wanting to read for a while.

[papayahed]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

[The Comedian]

So I nominate The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which I have been wanting to read for a while.

This is my favorite Hawthorne novel! Great choice DM. I haven't read this book since grad school, and I'd love a revisit.

How about a graphic novel recommendation? The Crow by J. O'Barr. . . it's essentially a zombie story. . .a zombie that's really, really angry.

[papayahed]

How about a graphic novel recommendation? The Crow by J. O'Barr. . . it's essentially a zombie story. . .a zombie that's really, really angry.


Is that movie based on this graphic novel?

[The Comedian]

Is that movie based on this graphic novel?

Yep -- the comic was created in the '70s and '80 -- I think the film was was adapted from original material in the 1990s. I've only seen the movie once, ages ago, however. So I can't really compare the two very well.

[bouquin]

How the Dead Live by Will Self.

[baaaaadgoatjoke]

Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes

[Veho]

Is Rebecca by Maurier suitable Hallowe'en reading? If so, I nominate that.

[Dark Muse]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

That is a good stroy, I haven't read than since like middle shcool.

[Scheherazade]

Nominations so far:

1. Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

2. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

4. The Crow by J. O'Barr

5. How the Dead Live[/B] by Will Self

6. Something Wicked This Way Comes

7. Rebecca by Maurier

[Scheherazade]

I would like to nominate "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.

[Rores28]

The lottery is probably my all time favorite short story

[Janine]

I would like to nominate 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley.

[baaaaadgoatjoke]

Do we need to reach 10 nominations or are we running with what we've got? If you guys are interested in something different, and if I can nominate twice to get the ball rolling, I'd like to throw From Hell by Alan Moore into the ring. It's a graphic novel about Jack the Ripper. Brand new it runs about $35, but it's popular enough you could probably find it at the library.

[Rores28]

I will nominate From Hell by Alan Moore

[Janine]

Oh wow, I saw the movie and I liked it very much...stars Johnny Depp. The book sounds a bit steep for me to buy; but it's a good choice.

[Rores28]

I've heard that the only similarity between the movie and comic is the name.... but the comic is really really good. You should vote for it

[baaaaadgoatjoke]

That's ten.

1. Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

2. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

4. The Crow by J. O'Barr

5. How the Dead Live by Will Self

6. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

7. Rebecca by Maurier

8. "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

10. From Hell by Alan Moore

[Rores28]

We just read "The Fall of the House of Usher" in the short story thread... and there is a discussion going on there.....

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[L.M. The Third]

What dates are considered "Halloween week"?

[Scheherazade]

What dates are considered "Halloween week"?We usually read the Halloween books during the week following the 31st.

Going twice...

[Scheherazade]

There is a tie at the of the poll. Since we have already read Rebecca, we will go with Something Wicked Comes This Way by Ray Bradbury.