OCTOBER IS LOVECRAFT COUNTRY!!! FRIGHTFALL 2017

FRIGHTFALL 2017, a creation of Seasons of Reading, is held this year from Oct. 1-31. Sign up here (the definition of "scary" is pretty wide, in case you are a reader who is not an aficionado of horror): FRIGHTFALL 2017

Michelle Miller of Seasons of Reading is also holding a September-long Edgar Allan Poe reading at her blog Castle Macabre, which inspired me to declare my personal version of October reading:

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

In hopes that this Christmas Eve will see Cthhulhu slithering down my chimney, or that Samhain will bring the proper alignment of stars for Cthulhu to awake from his dead and dreaming sleep in sunken R'lyeh, I will spend October in the pursuit of the Master, H. P. Lovecraft, and of his worthy successors who toil in the fields of the Lovecraft Mythos. I will read as much of the original HPL as I can, plus novels, short stories, anthologies, and collections in the Mythos. {Who knows, perhaps I shall be gifted with Cthulhuian dreams?}

October 1:

I collated a list of about 27 books. I read
THE X-VARIANT by Rosemary Cole (sci fi),
FRANKENSTEIN, adaptation by Saviour Pirotta (for Junior Readers)(horror classic),
SMILEY by Michael Ezell (serial killer mystery/police procedural).

October 2:
IN THE COMPANY OF FALSE GODS
PUCKERED

October 3:
CARNACKI, THE GHOST FINDER

October 4:
MESTLVN

October 6:
AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD

October 7:
YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION

HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL VOLUME 3

October 8-9:
THELEMA By Colin D.Campbell

HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL VOLUME FOUR

October 9-11:
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY by Matt Ruff

October 12:
"DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE" by H. P. Lovecraft

THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle

(NEW AGE BUNDLE by Tabatha Zalot--for review

RELIGION HISTORY BUNDLE by Michael Stewart--for review

OCTOBER 13:
DEVIL BOARD by Glen Frost

OCTOBER 13-14:
THE CHANGELING

OCTOBER 14-20:
ENCOUNTERS WITH ENOCH COFFIN by W. H. Pugmire and Jeffrey Thomas

OCTOBER 15:
DISTURBED by Jennifer Jaynes (psychological suspense)

OCTOBER 16:
FRANKENSTEIN: A LIFE BEYOND by Pete Planisek

OCTOBER 16-17:

PARADOX BOUND by Peter Clines

OCTOBER 17:

ANCIENT HISTORY BUNDLE by Robert Dean
HEALTH BUNDLE by Diana Campbell

OCTOBER 18:
THE KING IN YELLOW DELUXE EDITION by Robert W. Chambers

THE DEMON GUARDIAN

BUBBY'S PUDDLE POND (children's, Nature)

OCTOBER 19:
"THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE," H. P. Lovecraft

THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS, by K. C. Tansley (reread, from 2015)

SUB-BASEMENT, by Carol McMahon (horror)

OCTOBER 20-22:
WICKED HAUNTED Anthology, New England Horror Writers

OCTOBER 21:
THE STRANGE CASE AT MISTY RIDGE by David Brian

OCTOBER 22:
"Picture in the House" by H. P. Lovecraft

HAUNTING OF CHAMBERS HOUSE by Sable Ridge

THE HAUNTING OF ANDLER HOUSE by K. C. Banter

OCTOBER 23:
MURDER IS A MONKEY'S GAME

WEEKEND GETAWAY

OCTOBER 24:
AFTERNOON TEA 2 in 1 BUNDLE [review]

BEER 2 in 1 BUNDLE: ULTIMATE GUIDE [review]

OCTOBER 22-24:
PSYCHOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN (collection) by David Owain Hughes

OCTOBER 22-25:
TALES FROM THE LAKE VOLUME 4

OCTOBER 25:
THE WENDIGO by Algernon Blackwood

OCTOBER 25-26:
HAVEN by Tom Deady {Bram Stoker Award Winner, debut novel]

OCTOBER 26:
A HALLOWEEN NIGHT by Laura Hiram [poem, children's]

TWO HALLOWEEN TALES by Mark Scioneaux and Dane Hatchell

OCTOBER 27:
DON'T BURY ME by Nick Younker

OCTOBER 28:
THE FOURTH PROPHECY by Ernest Dempsey

OCTOBER 27-28:
ARACHNOSAUR by Richard Jeffries

OCTOBER 29:
MONOCHROMES AND OTHER STORIES by Matt Bechtel

SLITHERS by W.W. Mortensen

OCTOBER 30:
JOURNALING BUNDLE (review)

AMERICAN HISTORY BUNDLE II (review)

LIONS AND THE LIVING DEAD by Ruby Loren

DINO AND MONSTER AND THE MAGIC CARPET (children)

OCTOBER 30-31:
THE BLACK GOAT MOTORCYCLE CLUB By Jason Murphy (Lovecraftian horror)

NOVEMBER 1 Wrap-Up: NOVEMBER 1 Wrap-Up: 56 books. 3 are children's, + 1 juvenile version (Frankenstein). 3 short stories by H. P. Lovecraft {I'll endeavor to improve this month.} 10 are either single-author collections or anthologies (one of those is a 2-author, 2-story). 10 review non-fiction 29 are novels or novellas.