It's Friday and I've been ill past couple of days. So today, I will go easy on myself. Since World Horror Convention is going on this weekend in New Orleans and it's summer and many libraries will be doing summer reading, where you read at most ten books and turn in you did so for a prize, maybe even to help buy bag of foo for a animal shelter, or something else.
Horror books are a good beach read or to read indoors in the AC. With Stephen King's novel, Under the Dome coming as a TV minseries end of this month, might be a good time to attempt to read it before hand. Or numerous other books.
What is horror? Horror fiction, horror literature and also horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of Horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the 18th century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole.
So, see you can even take on the old classics. Like Dracula by Bram Stoker, H P. Lovecraft’s
tales, those scary tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson ghost story, The Haunting of Hill House, and many
others.
Right now, I am reading NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son). I am reading
Reliquary, sequel to Relic
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln
Child. What are you reading, or what other scary books are you planning to read
this summer? Leave a comment, so others can find these great reads in their
local library or at their bookstore or an online estore.
Happy Haunting. . .I mean Reading!
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