Readers Imbibing Peril XIV

Peril the First:

Read four books, any length, that you feel fit (our very broad definitions) of R.I.P. literature. It could be Stephen King or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shirley Jackson or Tananarive Due…or anyone in between.

These aren’t cast in stone, sometimes I start a book that I end up not being able to finish, but the four I’m going with are:

Revival by Stephen King
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
I Travel By Night by Robert McCammon
Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell


Peril of the Short Story:

We are fans of short stories and our desire for them is perhaps no greater than in autumn. We see Jackson in our future for sure! You can read short stories any time during the challenge. We sometimes like to read short stories over the weekend and post about them around that time. Feel free to do this however you want, but if you review short stories on your site, please link to those reviews on our RIPXIV Book Review pages.

Not sure which story I’ll read, but it’s be out of the anthology, Doom City, by Charles L. Grant.


Peril on the Screen:

This is for those of us who 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 your favorite film. If you are so inclined, please post links to any R.I.P.-related viewing you do on our book review pages as well.

I’m choosing the 1960 Mario Bava movie, Black Sunday. It scared me silly as a kid. I hope it still has the same affect.

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way.

Peril of the Review:

Submit a short review of any book you read and you may see it here on the blog! Again, you may participate in one or all of the various Perils. Our one demand: enjoy yourself!

I always review the books I read, so there’ll be at least four!