Horror Mayhem 2024 - Week 1 Wrap Up!

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

I like the Stephen Graham Jones novel I read, The Only Good Indians. Quitters Inc is class Stephen King story. 🐶

[@BookBlather]

I’ll get to The Only Good Indians eventually. Everyone seems to really like it.

[@tracey6552]

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[@BookBlather]

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[@jf8559]

Thanks Dave and Olive! Night Shift is a great story collection. Reread it a few years ago and was really surprised how well it stood up.

[@BookBlather]

I’m looking forward to reading some more from it. Considering I never read any horror until a couple of years ago, I’ve read almost no King at this point. I have a number on my list to read.

[@michellesmelancholia]

This was great! I love how horror MayHem is perfect for short stories, I always wish I read more of those!

[@BookBlather]

Hey Michelle! I’m just seeing now that you’re back! Great to hear from you! 🤗

[@badrad9226]

Hi Dave , Hi Olive let’s have a fun time! I love that we get to read all the horror short stories together. I do have the book ( The only good Indians ) still need to read more books on that author . Oh that is a great front cover ( Night Shift) how fun! Overall the books are awesome! Nope I have not read any books you have mentioned ❤ Olive here’s your puppy 🐶 lots of love 💕

[@BookBlather]

I need to read The Only Good Indians at some point. I love those stepback covers!

[@CliffsDarkGems]

Hi Dave and Olive, great wrap-up! I really need to read some Stephen Graham Jones. Cat's Eye is a great movie, The Ledge is brilliant and also based on a Stephen King story. Night Shift is a great collection. Deathbird Stories sounds excellent. 🐕

[@BookBlather]

Yes… The Ledge is the next one I’m reading from that collection for that reason! Curious to see if that story also seems familiar to me! 😜

[@AlbertTheConjugator]

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[@BookBlather]

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[@fiberartsyreads]

I’ve been reading some zombie short stories and North Carolina ghost stories and enjoying them a lot. I really liked Mapping the Interior! 🐶

[@BookBlather]

You can never go wrong with zombie stories. Even if it sucks, I’m gonna like it. I never get tired of that sub genre 🧟‍♂️

[@lesliepowell-mccarty7067]

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[@BookBlather]

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[@angelwalker979]

Love Night Shift! Jerusalems lot is one of my favorite short stories of all time. I like Quitters Inc too! Thanks Dave, hi Olive.🐶🩷

[@BookBlather]

Jerusalem’s Lot and Salem’s Lot can be read independently, right? I have Salem’s Lot, but was planning to put it off for a while.

[@angelwalker979]

@@BookBlather yes they can absolutely be read separate! There's also another short story of Salem's Lot called One for the Road. That may be in Night Shift also, but if not, it's in Skeleton crew. Happy reading!📚✌️

[@BookBlather]

@@angelwalker979 Great, thanks!

[@eriebeverly]

You got a lot read in Week 1. You used the word "eerie" a couple of times and my head went up like Olive when she hears "treat".

[@BookBlather]

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[@JohnSeney]

🐕Yes those were the good old days of King with Night Shift, Skeleton Crew and other story collections. But then came "It" and later the attack on his own loyal readers of "Misery" (King blames his own failure to be the next William Faulkner on them) and it has all been downhill since in my view. Except that I have still not got around to his up-to-date story collections and want to see if he still "has it" for them. Graham Jones has been growing on me as a writer, re-reading his "Mongrels" werewolf novel is showing him to be impressive in his marriage of social commentary on poverty with horror 👍 Still working through "No Blade of Grass" 👍 alongside like five other books LOL 😆😸

[@BookBlather]

Since I’ve read almost no King at this point, I can’t really comment. I did see the movie Misery, however, and kind of liked it. Did a lot of his fans get put off by that book? It certainly is an interesting plot for a popular writer to write about 🤔 I most want to read a couple of his older ones (Salem’s Lot and Pet Sematary), but I am also very interested in the Dark Tower series, and his newer Fairy Tale.

[@BryanM.R.-prionic1]

Huh. I never took Misery that way, but that's an interesting reading of it. If there's any truth to it, the funniest thing would be King believing he was EVER going to be "the next Faulkner." Don't get me wrong; I've enjoyed some of King's work, and I hate to sound like a snob, but Faulkner ... seriously? 😂

[@BryanM.R.-prionic1]

​@@BookBlather"Misery" is the first King novel I read (Memorial Day Weekend camping trip 1994 😉), and it stands as a favorite among those I've read. Perhaps I'm just messed up, but the movie sometimes plays almost like a comedy to me. Shoot, my weird aunt and I still randomly quote lines to each other and laugh. 🤪 I guess you could say the broad plot outline of the book is similar (details definitely vary), but for me, the FEEL is so much darker and more desperate that the experience is quite different.

[@JohnSeney]

The only critic at the time I remember calling King out on it was David Denby of New York magazine. I do not remember King denying it and his discussions of "Misery" seemed to confirm it (as if it wasn't obvious). People were not outraged for the most part and it seemed few King fans were aware there was an issue, never mind the obvious poke in their eye. It was either Faulkner, Hemingway or someone like that whom King said he wanted to emulate. It seems he attempted this in books like "November 22" and "Green Mile" and others and in my opinion failed miserably.

[@BryanM.R.-prionic1]

@JohnSeney King emulating HEMINGWAY? Now THAT would be downright BATTY if true! Love, hate, or anything in between Hemingway, I doubt there's a single soul on Earth who would call his style "bloated." King's on the other hand, at least when it comes to his novels, uh, well ... let's just say "terse" and "spare" are pretty much the last descriptors that spring to mind. I'm starting to feel kind of mean, but I might have to search for some old King interviews. Sounds like they might be a hoot!

[@BryanM.R.-prionic1]

You're off to a good start with some interesting sounding stuff! Seems like life (that bastard 😜) keeps impeding my reading this week. Hopefully I'll make some progress soon. But in any case, it's all supposed to be for enjoyment, right? 🐕

[@BookBlather]

Shoot... just seeing this now. Hopefully life slows down with the lifing, and you can consume some horror!

[@wordfullyyours]

Olive was quiet for this one.

[@BookBlather]

She’s been getting lazy!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

You’re doing a great job with your Horror Mayhem reading, Dave. Great tee shirt too. I’m not sure, but I think Olive might like cozy horror, along with me. 👻🐶🐾🦴🧛🏻‍♂️

[@BookBlather]

Uh… did you see her collar in that thumbnail, Pat? 😉

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@BookBlather I just went back and blew it up on my laptop so I could see it! (Couldn’t see on my phone!) Brilliant, Dave!

[@BookBlather]

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[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@BookBlather very cute, Olive. Hey Dave, I posted a few spooky poems today in a Poetry Thursday devoted to Horror Mayhem! 👻🧛🏻‍♂️🧖🏽‍♀️

[@reggiereads5989]

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[@BookBlather]

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