Truly scary - Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
And now my boy's in love. All hearts and flowers. But, doesn't it freak you out that she used to change your diapers? I mean, when you think about it, the first woman you boned is the closest thing you've ever had to a mother. Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hm. There should be a play.
Angelus ,'Damage'
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."
Toddson - Oct 02, 2008 6:12:43 am PDT #7634 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
DavidS - Oct 02, 2008 7:14:02 am PDT #7635 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does anyonw have some suggestions for some really actually creepy horror novels?
The Voice of Our Shadow and Land of Laughs by Jon Carroll are both completely absorbing and deeply creepy.
Kathy A - Oct 02, 2008 7:16:34 am PDT #7636 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Yellow Wallpaper creeps me out. I get the chills just thinking about it.
IObookN, those who like Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book and/or would like to buy a copy, B&N has them in their $2 bin right now--we've got about five copies left as of last night.
megan walker - Oct 02, 2008 7:27:39 am PDT #7637 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The Yellow Wallpaper creeps me out. I get the chills just thinking about it.
See, they just read it on "Classic Tales" podcast, and, yet again, it didn't just didn't work for me. Shirley Jackson, on the other hand, especially "The Lottery", gives me the chills. I know I've read something really creepy in the last year and am blanking on what it was.
DavidS - Oct 02, 2008 7:35:20 am PDT #7638 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've pimped it here before but I'm a huge fan of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived At the Castle.
Fred Pete - Oct 02, 2008 7:43:40 am PDT #7639 of 28404
Ann, that's a ferret.
Really, just about any Shirley Jackson. I lean toward The Haunting of Hill House, myself.
Hayden - Oct 02, 2008 7:44:32 am PDT #7640 of 28404
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That one's fantasticly creepy. The Turn Of The Screw is a rather horrifyingly great book, too.
xpost - I meant We Have Always Lived At The Castle, but it applies in either case.
Beverly - Oct 02, 2008 8:50:36 am PDT #7641 of 28404
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I lean toward The Haunting of Hill House, myself.
Whose hand had she been holding..?
Brrr. It took me two days to work up the courage to pick up the book again after that scene.
Pix - Oct 02, 2008 10:23:45 am PDT #7642 of 28404
The status is NOT quo.
Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series? I have a bunch of 14-year-old girls who really need another book to grasp onto that doesn't include a whiny, needy protagonist and sparkly!vampires.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2008 10:29:06 am PDT #7643 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series?
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
I thought Silk was nicely done and oogy (and I'm amazed you read it, Jill1!)
It was Caitlin's first novel and I really wanted to support her. She was amazed that I read it, too. I will state that I haven't RE-read it. I want to, but ... um, no. I don't think I can bring myself to do it.