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2017 Roberta reads Horror!

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1luvamystery65
Editado: Feb 24, 2017, 11:51 am

January: King and Family

My Pick: The Breathing Method by Stephen King



This is the last novella in the collection Different Seasons by Stephen King. It's the only one of the four that has not been made into a movie. It had potential of being made really creepy if they had developed the back story of the old club where the gentlemen told their tales. That place had potential, as did the mysterious library. Instead, the story built up to a tale that fell short of the mark of being scary.

2luvamystery65
Editado: Feb 24, 2017, 11:37 am

February: Shirley Jackson - Psychological Suspense

My Pick: The Lottery and Seven other stories by Shirley Jackson



This collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson was perfectly creepy. She wasn't an element of horror in these, with the exception of The Lottery. These were more the creepiness of everyday encounters of racism, isolationism, social anxiety etc... Jackson had a way to make everything suspenseful in the most subtle way. I really would like to read more of her short works.

The stories are "The Lottery", "Flower Garden", "Come Dance with Me in Ireland", "Men with Their Big Shoes", "Trial by Combat", "Pillar of Salt", "Like Mother Used to Make", and "Colloquy".

3luvamystery65
Editado: Mar 11, 2017, 12:50 pm

March: Richard Matheson - Creatures

My Pick: I am Legend by Richard Matheson



Interesting novel about a post pandemic world in which a vampire like virus has taken over. Robert Neville is the only "human" left on Earth. He is lonely and weary, but he still fights for life and searches for a cause and cure for the disease. He also hunts the vampires. In the end he sees himself through their eyes.

4luvamystery65
Editado: Mar 24, 2017, 3:07 pm

April: Daphne duMaurier - Books made into films

My Pick: The Birds and other stories by Daphne du Maurier

5luvamystery65
Editado: Jun 18, 2017, 4:26 pm

May: Sheridan Le Fanu - Ghosts

In a Glass Darkly

6luvamystery65
Editado: Jun 18, 2017, 4:26 pm

June: Anne Radcliffe - Gothic

The Mysteries of Udolpho

7luvamystery65
Editado: Jun 18, 2017, 4:27 pm

July: Clive Barker/Neil Gaiman - GN/YA

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Preacher Volume 2

8luvamystery65
Editado: Sep 3, 2017, 4:05 pm

August: Flannery O'Conner - Women

The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

9luvamystery65
Editado: Sep 3, 2017, 4:05 pm

September: Poppy Brite/Tananarive Due - Diversity

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

10luvamystery65
Editado: Oct 19, 2017, 6:12 pm

October: Joyce Carol Oates - Modern

The Changeling by Victor LaValle

11luvamystery65
Editado: Jul 29, 2017, 4:06 pm

November: Edgar Allen Poe - Short stories & Poetry

The Raven and other short stories and poems (audio Hoopla)

12luvamystery65
Editado: Jun 20, 2017, 3:39 pm

December: Marjorie Bowen - Crime & Mystery

The Crown Derby Plate - Hoopla audio