Please nominate the books you would like to read during the Halloween week by October 10th.
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Crow by J. O'Barr
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Rebecca by Maurier
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
From Hell by Alan Moore
Please nominate the books you would like to read during the Halloween week by October 10th.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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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.
T for Tea.
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.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
This is my favorite Hawthorne novel! Great choice DM. I haven't read this book since grad school, and I'd love a revisit.Originally Posted by Dark Muse
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.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
Is that movie based on this graphic novel?
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
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.
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
That is a good stroy, I haven't read than since like middle shcool.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I would like to nominate "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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The lottery is probably my all time favorite short story
I would like to nominate 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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