Lining up some spooky reads for the RIP Challenge!
No 463 The October Country by Ray Bradbury #ripxv
Ray Bradbury defies categorisation. Best known for his science fiction and fantasy works like Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, my first encounter with his writing was Dandelion Wine, a beautiful and evocative novel of childhood and memory. Yet again he has confounded my expectations with The October Country, his 1955 collection of nineteen macarbe…
No 464 The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s best known works – The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle – have placed her oeuvre firmly within the Gothic Horror genre. However her writing is more subtle than that label suggests and The Bird’s Nest highlights the difficulty in pigeon-holing her work and emphasises…
No 466 A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home by Jason Arnopp
I feel like I am cheating a little by counting A Sincere Warning about the Entity in Your Home by Jason Arnopp in the 746 countdown as I didn’t realise until I went to read it that it is a mere 38 pages long! So, it is less of a book and more of a…
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No 467 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives needs no introduction. Thanks to not one, but two movie adaptations, it has a plot so famous as to have entered cultural discourse – everyone knows what a Stepford Wife is now, but the novel upon which the films are based is a much more interesting and ambiguous affair. It is in…
R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge XV: A Longlist! #ripxv
October Miscellany
Autumn’s in the air – time for the R.I.P challenge!
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