Mal: Does.. um.. does this seem kind of tight? Kaylee: Shows off your backside.

'Shindig'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Amy - May 17, 2010 7:28:59 pm PDT #11493 of 28344
Because books.

This looks fun: 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying to meet you, [link]


Strix - May 17, 2010 7:30:59 pm PDT #11494 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh! The Pressed Faerie Books will appeal to some. Hee. I loved those.


DavidS - May 17, 2010 7:31:58 pm PDT #11495 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oh, well if Bradbury's okay then I'd suggest his immediate contemporaries in Urban Horror from the early sixties: Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson.


Strix - May 17, 2010 7:32:33 pm PDT #11496 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, damn, memory lane: Zilpha Keatley Snyder, "The Witches of Worm."

STILL CREEPY.


Strix - May 17, 2010 7:33:11 pm PDT #11497 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I was just wondering about Hill House, Hec, but Castle is definitely on.


Amy - May 17, 2010 7:33:37 pm PDT #11498 of 28344
Because books.

Oooh, I loved The Witches of Worm!

Ben read this, I think -- London, 1850 (The Vampyre Plagues), [link] .


DavidS - May 17, 2010 7:33:59 pm PDT #11499 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I need suggestions for "age-appropriate" gothy reading material for elementary-school babybats.

Such a great book. Merricat's one of the great goth/teen characters.


Strix - May 17, 2010 7:35:48 pm PDT #11500 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

The Midwive's Apprentice, and quite a few Jane Yolen books.


Atropa - May 17, 2010 7:36:23 pm PDT #11501 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Yay! Thanks, everyone.


beth b - May 17, 2010 9:29:42 pm PDT #11502 of 28344
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Sister Grimm

[link]

anything by Gail Carson levine would be age appropriate, if not really gothic

and though I love tithe -- I'm careful about recommending it