Readers Imbibing Peril XIII
I’m going to participate in Peril the First (read four books in the genres of mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, or supernatural), Peril of the Short Story, and probably Peril on the Screen.
Peril the First
I have three ARCs in the queue that fit the bill, peril-wise:
- The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko – READ!
- The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel by Alyssa Palombo
- Nothing to Devour by Glen Hirshberg
Other picks, I’m leaving to chance. I set up a TBR “jar” with a selection of mass-market paperback titles that I own.
Peril of the Short Story
I’ve been reading my way through Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, one per week, and there are nine scheduled for Oct./Nov. I’m also going to delve into some gothic short stories for Something Wicked This Fall Comes (see below).
Peril on the Screen
Whatever strikes my fancy. I haven’t decided how I feel about Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House series…
Something Wicked This Fall Comes
Gothic short stories for September
(Two per week? Could happen.)
- “The Dream Woman” by Wilkie Collins
- “The Ebony Frame” by E. Nesbit
- “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton
- “The Bird In The Garden” by Richard Middleton
- “A Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- “The Lonesome Place” by August Derleth
- “The Screaming Skull” by F. Marion Crawford
- “The Toll-House” by W. W. Jacobs
Read-along
And I’ll at least be listening to Something Wicked This Way Comes in October. I can’t find my copy, but Hoopla has an audio edition.
Simple Tricks & Nonsense 
Ooooh! W.W. Jacobs. I read The Toll-House earlier this year. Not my favorite of his stories, but of a type that has been repeated by other authors. The only other of your Gothic stories I’ve read is The Screaming Skull, but it was so long ago I’m having trouble remembering. I had a Project: Arthur Conan Doyle one year back in my pre-blogging days and read all of his stories. Hard to go wrong there. Enjoy your perilous September & October!
Both of those stories missed my Deal Me In list for this year so I figured I’d put them on a Perious list. 😉
I love RIP but don’t think I’m going to get organised enough to take part. Have fun!
Wow, that’s quite a lot of tackle, but the short stories, I’m sure, will be fairly simple to finish. Have you done R.I.P. before?
I’ll probably only get through one (maybe two) TBR jar picks. I think this will be the sixth time I’ve done R. I. P.. It’s one of my favorite reading/blogging events.
Great selection of short stories….all are new to me!
This is only my second RIP (2/13) …but I hope to
read ‘spooky’ as much as I can until Halloween!
Good luck! I’m so happy that it’s almost fall and spooky season. I’m already reading horror novels because I’m overly excited.
Love the idea of the TBR jar. I’m going to try that next year.
I had a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes too, but I don’t think it’s survived one of my many moving house book culls.