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Cathy's (ccookie) Horror of Horrors

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1ccookie
Dec 14, 2014, 11:02 pm

Well, here we go! This should be quite a ride.

2ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 3:31 pm

JANUARY: Traditional and Gothic Works
The Monk by Matthew Lewis

3ccookie
Edited: Feb 11, 2016, 12:46 am

FEBRUARY: Supernatural Gothic Works
possibilities:
Christine - Stephen King ✔
The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
House of Reckoning - John Saul
Pet Semetary - Stephen King
The Talisman -Stephen King and Peter Straub
World War Z - Max Brooks

4ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 10:52 pm

MARCH: Victorian Gothic
Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier

5ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 10:53 pm

APRIL: Graphic novels & short stories
possibilities:
Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King

6ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 3:37 pm

MAY: Women & non-English
possibilities:
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Fledgling - Octavia Butler

7ccookie
Edited: Feb 2, 2016, 11:01 pm

JUNE: Gothic Pulp & weird fiction
possibilities:
The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror in One Volume - H. P Lovecraft
The Grab Bag - Robert Bloch
Lucy Comes to Stay - Robert Bloch
China Miéville (Weird)

8ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 10:57 pm

JULY: Hauntings/ghost stories
possibilities:
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Harvest Home - Thomas Tryon

9ccookie
Edited: Feb 2, 2016, 11:01 pm

AUGUST: Psychological
possibilities:
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Bag of Bones - Stephen King
Blood Meridian - Cormack McCarthy
The Fledging - Octavia Butler
House of Reckoning - John Saul
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

10ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 10:57 pm

SEPTEMBER: Southern Gothic
possibilities:
Clementine or Dreadnought - Cherie Priest
The Robber Bridegroom - Eudora Welty
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Swamplandia - Karen Russell
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Conner

11ccookie
Edited: Feb 11, 2016, 12:47 am

OCTOBER: Slasher/thriller
possibilities:
From a Buick 8 - Stephen King
The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
Misery - Stephen King ✔ (Read Jan to Feb 2016)
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

12ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 11:01 pm

NOVEMBER:Light/humorous
Possibilities:
Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Gaimen
A Nameless Witch - A. Lee Martinez
Odd Thomas - - Dean Koontz
Tick Tock - Dean Koontz

13ccookie
Edited: Dec 21, 2014, 11:02 pm

DECEMBER: Contemporary/modern Gothic
posibilities:
Damnation GAme by Clive Barker
Imajica - by Clive Barker
Interview with a Vampire -Anne Rice (Calibre)
The Terror - Dan Simmons (Calibre)
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (Calibre)
Victoria Holt
Mary Stewart
Phyllis Whitney

14saraslibrary
Dec 15, 2014, 12:15 am

>1 ccookie: It should be quite a ride, huh? :) A scary-fun one, I hope. Good luck!

15ccookie
Dec 20, 2014, 10:42 pm

>14 saraslibrary: Thanks Sara! We are on the roller-coaster together!

16saraslibrary
Dec 21, 2014, 2:43 pm

>15 ccookie: Woo hoo! I promise not to blow cookies if you don't. ;)