Here we are again...coming up on my favorite time of year (well, one of them anyway)! Fall, which leads into winter with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yay! Right now though, it's time to focus on the fun, spooky fall reading events starting with...
R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XII
Hosting are Heather at My Capricious Life and Andi at Estella's Revenge. Head over to either blog to sign-up. From the sign-up post:
The purpose is to enjoy books that could be classified as...
Mystery
Suspense
Thriller
Dark Fantasy
Gothic
Horror
Supernatural
The emphasis is never on the word challenge, instead it is about coming together as a community and embracing the autumnal mood, whether the weather is cooperative where you live or not.
There are two simple goals for R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XII:
1. Have fun reading.
2. Share that fun with others.
There are multiple levels. Read more at the sign-up post.
My levels...
Peril the First:
Read four books, any length, that you feel fit (our very broad definitions) of R.I.P. literature. It could be Stephen King or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shirley Jackson or Tananarive Due…or anyone in between.
Between reading for this, my other fall reading events, and my FrightFall readathon, which is the entire month of October, I'm hoping to get a lot of horror reading done. I may not get to all of them, but I'm sure going to try. This is the list I will be working on:
Exorcist Falls (including the novella, Exorcist Road) - Jonathan Janz
We Are Always Watching - Hunter Shea
Becoming - Glenn Rolfe
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned - Anne Rice (read-along at Gather Together and Read)
The Witch of Ravensworth - George Brewer (novella...for Season of the Witch at Castle Macabre)
Hunter of the Dead - Stephen Kozeniewski
Savages - Greg F. Gifune
The Awakening - Brett McBean
Vyrmin - Gene Lazuta
Renovation - Sara Brooke
Dream Woods - Patrick Lacey (novella)
Peril of the Short Story:
We are fans of short stories and our desire for them is perhaps no greater than in autumn. We see Jackson in our future for sure! You can read short stories any time during the challenge. We sometimes like to read short stories over the weekend and post about them around that time. Feel free to do this however you want, but if you review short stories on your site, please link to those reviews on our RIPXII Book Review pages.
Edgar Allan Poe short stories (for Gothic September):
Berenice: A Tale
William Wilson: A Tale
The Imp of the Perverse
A Descent into the Maelstrom
Short stories for Season of the Witch at Castle Macabre:
Ancient Sorceries - Algernon Blackwood
The Witch - Shirley Jackson
Peril on the Screen:
This is for those of us who like to watch suitably scary, eerie, mysterious gothic fare during this time of year. It may be something on the small screen or large. It might be a television show, like Dark Shadows, or your favorite film. If you are so inclined, please post links to any R.I.P.-related viewing you do on our book review pages as well.
There are a ton of new scary movies I'm looking forward to this fall, not to mention scary shows...one of which I'm watching right now as I type this up..American Horror Story: Cult.
The two movies I'm most looking forward to are IT and Mother! I'm going to see the former this weekend and the latter next weekend. Can't wait!
Join me for my fun, and scary, fall reading events!
Coming in October to Castle Macabre
What's going on in your reading life?
Thanks for the reminder--I love the RIP challenge, and have my mysteries queued up for October. I have been reading so many long books lately that it will be fun to breeze through a bunch of mysteries. I might also try to work in some short stories--one of my favorite genres.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite reading time of year! Looks like you have quite the list. I can't wait to see Mother! Looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteAaaahhhh! So many delicious horror books and movies to add to my own list! Happy reading. Really looking forward to this year's RIP :)
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