I’ve been reading something spooky/creepy/horrific around this time for a few years now. Does anyone else do this? Any recommendations?

My reads:

  • 2023: Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
  • 2022: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • 2021: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • 2020: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • 2019: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
  • 2018: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
  • 2017: Carrie by Stephen King
  • 2016: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 2015: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  • 2014: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 2012: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 2009: Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • 2008: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Tenbot@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yes! I’ve also been doing a Spooky Season last month and this one with some of the same classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, and now Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

    I had never read any of them before! Based on the popular conceptions versus the reality of the text, I’d say Frankenstein was the most interesting.

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      1 year ago

      I liked the format* of Dracula, that was a welcome surprise.

      * I looked up the term: “epistolary”.