[simpson96]

[Tax-chick]

I picked up “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” at the library. Deliciously spooky, I loved it.

[Huskrrrr]

I loved H.P. Lovecraft stories in high school. This lead me into Shirley Jackson novels in college, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The dark tone of her books gave me the chills. And without the slice and dice of today’s film.

[Mermaid Girl]

Personally, I prefer the Haunting of Hill House to We have Always Lived in the Castle. Jackson is one of the greatest writers of horror.

[Flycatcher]

Literary fiction, the two most depressing words in the English language...

Interesting. That's the only genre I've ever read.

Had no idea that simpletons thought it depressing.

[Will88]

‘The Lottery’ was in my HS literature book way back when. Very unexpected for 11th grade reading.

[EliRoom8]

bkmk

[henbane]

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. -- the first paragraph of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)

[bonfire]

Bfl

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[TalBlack]

Yeah, right “horror”. I used to buy, back in the late 70s early 80s, Horror anthologies to read when I didn’t particularly care to think. Was in a book store last year when I came across one of the same collections of all new stories, 28th edition. Wow 28 years. I thought I recalled buying year 1. Let me grab one for the bedside table. ALL of the stories in the new book were SJW PC bullshit. The haunts were abused wives, slaves, discarded poor people. Every story was basically a Chinese Gov’t Evil Landlord story. So much for “Horror”...