'Smile Time'
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."
Oooh, I love the eponymous heroine theme! (Although Anne of Green Gables totes needs to be on there!)
Hmm, I think perhaps tomorrow needs to be a library day.
Classic horror needs to include The Haunting of Hill House. One of my all time favorite creepies.
The last thing I read in the original language was The Satyricon, and I haven't read Latin much since. Dirty idioms are really a pain to translate.
I have We Have Always Lived in the Castle out from the library, but I'm too scared to try and read it at bedtime. I'm not sure quite how I'm going to handle it.
Oooh, I love the eponymous heroine theme! (Although Anne of Green Gables totes needs to be on there!)
Good idea, but if you want to see the problem with this category, go to Wikipedia, where there were only 6 screen pages of eponymous heroes, but 18(!) of eponymous heroines.
Hee, I believe it, Megan.
Dana, Castle is ok bedtime reading, but Hill House is NOT.
Dana, Castle is ok bedtime reading, but Hill House is NOT.
Very much this.
Anything else that has to be on this classic horror list? Does The Thirteenth Tale belong?
Dracula
(Bram Stoker)
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(Washington Irving)
The Phantom of the Opera
(Gaston Leroux)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Oscar Wilde)
The Mysteries of Udolpho
(Ann Radcliffe)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Turn of the Screw
(Henry James)
Uncle Silas
(Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Short Stories
“The Body-Snatcher” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The Mark of the Beast” (Rudyard Kipling)
The Stories of Ambrose Bierce (esp. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”)
The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (esp. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”)
The Stories of Théophile Gautier (“The Mummy's Foot,” “La Morte Amoureuse”)
“The Withered Arm” (Thomas Hardy)
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
The Haunting of Hill House
(Shirley Jackson)
The Return
(Walter De la Mare)
Salem's Lot
(Stephen King)
The Shining
(Stephen King)
The Thirteenth Tale
(Diane Setterfield)
Hmm, I prefer Carmilla for Le Fanu, but I am boring.
What about Lovecraft?
I'd add The Lottery.
"Pickman's Model" by Lovecraft.
For 20th century, I would add The Other or Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. Peter Straub's Julia is another good choice. You could also add King's story collection, Night Shift, which is excellent.
Oh, I was thinking Ghost Story; I haven't read Julia, but I need to.
Night Shift is really a good collection. I quite like the prequel to Salem's Lot.