What We Are Reading: Scary Stuff

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Started Slade House. Creepy, scary, ghosty, just what I like. :)

I liked it too

I just finished The Small Hand: A Ghost Story, by Susan Hill. Not out and out scary, but nicely creepy and atmospheric.

>4 tymfos: Is that part of the "new" collection of hers that was recently published?

>5 LauraBrook: I'm not familiar with that collection's contents. My copy was published stand-alone (at least in Britain - my copy is a British edition) in 2010.

Read Sliver by Ira Levin in January - very creepy!
And started Stephen King's Misery - my goodness I do like Stephen King's writing

I read a number of scary books since the beginning of 2016. Weird, because I don't typically read a lot of horror. I do seem to go on 'kicks' with it though. And, clearly, I really like Ira Levin as I am now reading Rosemary's Baby.

1. If There Be Thorns - V. C. Andrews
Still finding this series compelling; read the first two in December and am currently reading the 4th.
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2. Sliver- Ira Levin
Short, gripping, couldn't put it down scary stuff!

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3. Misery - Stephen King
Oh, my, King knows what he is doing; horrifying!
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4. The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
Another Levin - short, creepy, believable
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Finished Rosemary's Baby in about three days! Once again, could not puit down an Ira Levin book

Seemingly ordinary people doing very extraordinary, scary, downright evil things!

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>9 ccookie: Your review was excellent. I also read Rosemary's Baby for the January Horror! Group. Ira Levin wrote such believable ordinary people giving into evil. It was a slow slope towards evil but it was real. That's the horror of it.

I read We have always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. She really had the psychological aspect of horror down. I read The Haunting of Hill House last year and she really can describe the descent into madness well. With the Castle book, the villagers were scarier than the mad Merricat and agoraphobic Constance.

Currently, I am listening to Dan Stevens narrate Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. This is a reread for me but the audio format is so much better for me than when I read it many, many years ago.

Back in February I read the 4th book in V. C. Andrews Dollanganger series. I loved Flowers in the Attic. Petals on the Wind and If There Be Thorns but the wheels came off in Seeds of Yesterday. I couldn't figure out how and why and where Virginia Andrews went so wrong until I discovered she did not write this one but, rather, the ghost writer that her family hired wrote it.

He is no V. C. Andrews.

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I read Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts after reading Stephen King's tweet about it, "Scared the living hell out of me, and I'm pretty hard to scare.” It did not disappoint!

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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist - Wow! Not even sure if I liked this book. Liked the writing but there was just so much that was awful! Violence. Bullying. Blood.

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I finished The Fireman by Joe Hill. It was my first Hill and I found it not too frightening, but well written. There is shades of The Stand in this story.

Good to know, I haven't started The FIreman yet as I need to get my numbers up a bit before diving into another large book

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Halloween thread is up. Instead of selecting specific titles this year, I've selected ten categories to choose from and have posted examples of books that could fit in them. The categories are broad and books may easily fit into multiple categories. As always, feel free to share with us what you are reading and to make suggestions for others.