Halloween Reading '10 - Poll

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

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.

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.

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

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

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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.

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Originally Posted by The Comedian

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.

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Is that movie based on this graphic novel?

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Originally Posted by papayahed

Is that movie based on this graphic novel?

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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.

How the Dead Live by Will Self.

Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes

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

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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

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

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

The lottery is probably my all time favorite short story

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