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byslantedlightI guess I have technically completed the Readers in Peril Challenge, cos I've read four books, read short stories, and even watched spookiness. But I'm going to keep going anyway... *g* My next book was...
This is the third book in the "Raven Cycle", and I felt like it might be a bit of a cheat to read it for this challenge, cos I also read it for the Once Upon A Time (fantasy/fairytales/mythology/folklore) challenge - but the thing is, it's sort of in both these place at once. The series starts with a parade of ghosts through a graveyard - those of people who will die in the coming year. That's RiPish, right? And dreams and nightmares can be physically manifested, and there are sleeper's underground, and madness and murder. Oh, and Noah is a ghost. *g* So it fits the challenge!
I wasn't sure about this third book at first, and even put it down for a while, but then I picked it up and rushed through it. I think partly it was that I had to get into the writing style, which isn't weird and wonderful, but does somehow feel fresh and interesting. And of course after several months since I read the last installment, I had to get into the characters again, all of whom I can feel for(okay, most of them - the villains were a bit Hollywood-smart-talking this time), so I like that. And the places are places that you can see and hear and smell and almost touch, and I like that too. I like to know where I am in a book. Even if that might be a slightly scary place... *g* But yeah - still recommending this series!
Peril the First: Read four books, any length, that you feel fit (the very broad definitions) of R.I.P. literature. It could be King or Conan Doyle, Penny or Poe, Chandler or Collins, Lovecraft or Leroux… or anyone in between.
1. Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman
2. Bedlam by Ally Kennan
3. The Ghosts of Motley Hall by Richard Carpenter
4. The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by KJ Charles
5. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Peril of the Short Story: We are big fans of short stories and the desire for them is perhaps no greater than in Autumn. You can read short stories any time during the challenge.
1. The Phantom Schooner (In Shudders and Shakes: Ghostly Tales from Australia, compiled by Anne Bower Ingram)
2. The Phantom Schooner (In Shudders and Shakes: Ghostly Tales from Australia, compiled by Anne Bower Ingram)
The Cooee Hut (In Shudders and Shakes: Ghostly Tales from Australia, compiled by Anne Bower Ingram)
4-25. All the spooky short Pros stories I've been reading for October...
Peril On the Screen: This is for those of us that 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 Midsomer Murders, or your favorite film.
1. The Ghosts of Motley Hall (Granada Television, 1976-78)
This is the third book in the "Raven Cycle", and I felt like it might be a bit of a cheat to read it for this challenge, cos I also read it for the Once Upon A Time (fantasy/fairytales/mythology/folklore) challenge - but the thing is, it's sort of in both these place at once. The series starts with a parade of ghosts through a graveyard - those of people who will die in the coming year. That's RiPish, right? And dreams and nightmares can be physically manifested, and there are sleeper's underground, and madness and murder. Oh, and Noah is a ghost. *g* So it fits the challenge!I wasn't sure about this third book at first, and even put it down for a while, but then I picked it up and rushed through it. I think partly it was that I had to get into the writing style, which isn't weird and wonderful, but does somehow feel fresh and interesting. And of course after several months since I read the last installment, I had to get into the characters again, all of whom I can feel for(okay, most of them - the villains were a bit Hollywood-smart-talking this time), so I like that. And the places are places that you can see and hear and smell and almost touch, and I like that too. I like to know where I am in a book. Even if that might be a slightly scary place... *g* But yeah - still recommending this series!
Peril the First: Read four books, any length, that you feel fit (the very broad definitions) of R.I.P. literature. It could be King or Conan Doyle, Penny or Poe, Chandler or Collins, Lovecraft or Leroux… or anyone in between.1. Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman
2. Bedlam by Ally Kennan
3. The Ghosts of Motley Hall by Richard Carpenter
4. The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by KJ Charles
5. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Peril of the Short Story: We are big fans of short stories and the desire for them is perhaps no greater than in Autumn. You can read short stories any time during the challenge.1. The Phantom Schooner (In Shudders and Shakes: Ghostly Tales from Australia, compiled by Anne Bower Ingram)
2. The Phantom Schooner (In Shudders and Shakes: Ghostly Tales from Australia, compiled by Anne Bower Ingram)
The Cooee Hut (In Shudders and Shakes: Ghostly Tales from Australia, compiled by Anne Bower Ingram)
4-25. All the spooky short Pros stories I've been reading for October...
Peril On the Screen: This is for those of us that 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 Midsomer Murders, or your favorite film.1. The Ghosts of Motley Hall (Granada Television, 1976-78)
