October Books: 1/6 (a collection of local ghost stories)
Life continues to be AAAHHHHH but the books are getting read, so that’s something, at least.
October, being the best month of the year (this year’s data being an outlier and not the norm), is of course also spooky time, which is the best time of the year.
(Here, have a remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-ZGAGcJrk You’re welcome.)
Anyway, because everything continues to be a disaster (oh, and apparently I’m developing carpal tunnel, hooray hooray), I’m committing to only reading spooky reads this spooky season.
Ghost stories. Mysteries. Thrillers. Dark fantasy. Horror.
My first book of the month was a collection of ghost stories from some of the mining towns in the mountains here. I often buy folklore or ghost story collections when I travel, because I think nothing really encapsulates an area like its local legends. You can learn a lot, both historically and culturally. Interestingly, I bought this collection in a different mountain town than the one the book is about. (I have, since, visited the one the book is about. And went on a mine tour that then someone died on almost exactly a year later. Things to think about.) I guess the first town didn’t have its own ghost stories? That seems unlikely, all mountain towns are haunted, I’m pretty sure. Maybe they were just boring.
The second book I’m working on, also interestingly, was given to me by my oldest on that same trip to the first mountain town. It’s Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. I have seen the movie, though, so I do kind of remember what’s coming.
And I’m also reading a thriller called One of Those Faces because I can’t focus. And Unraveling which I can’t quite pinpoint a genre one, but does revolve around a serial killer.
And then I’ve got some gothic horror novels I’ve been collecting but have yet to read, so maybe those next?
Do you guys do anything for spooky season, squider?
