At the moment I'm reading:
Kidnapped: by Robert Louis Stevenson
Just watched the most recent BBC TV adaptation a couple of weeks ago.
I haven't read the book since grade school.
Being that it was Fall, Halloween time and all I've been perusing a few stories to get me in the "spirit".
Casting the Runes and other Ghost Stories: M.R. James
Recently watched the old Movie "Night of the Demon" and wanted to reread the original short story it was based on "Casting the Runes". M.R. James is an effective and classy story teller.
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror: Various
H.P. Lovecraft was an American writer of horror stories or "weird tales" from the 20's. His career was fairly short but his impact on Horror Fiction was immense. He wrote a nonfiction piece that was one of the very first literary overviews of Horror fiction entitled "Supernatural Horror in Literature". Lovecraft traces Horror stories from the middle ages, to the flourishing of the Gothic tales, and to the present (circa 1920). This volume includes: "Supernatural Horror in Literature" as well as as many of the actual tales that Lovecraft reviewed/mentioned as the editors could get rights to.
This includes works by such authors as Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens. M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Machen, Guy De Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Cheers
Last edited by Panache; 13th November 06 at 10:25 AM.
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-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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