Welcome to Litsy!

This is a very well written homage to gothic horror. But it did feel formulaic at times. Also I don‘t do well with child harm in books. It created a great discussion at bookclub and on the whole we decided we preferred the theatre show but liked it more than the film.

ending halloween with this gem #spookyread #readinggoal #halloweenseason

#Scarathlon #PhotoChallenge day 4 #Ghost
Thought this was perfect for it and still creeps me out. #TeamCryptKeepers @LiseWorks

This story was a fun, but formulaic gothic horror novel. But the real star is Paapa Essiedu and the creative team that managed to put together the Audible audiobook of this novel!!!! #audiobook

This is one of my favorite book covers. It‘s been a while since I read the book and remember having lukewarm feelings about it, but couldn‘t let it go because that cover! I may give it a reread and see how I feel now about it. You can‘t really tell but all the black leaves and such are actually raised on the jacket. This is one of my favorite used bookstore finds.

#scarathlon #black #magicalmonsters #scarathlonphotochallenge

#black This was my favorite ghost story last spooky season and I was hoping to have time to reread it, but then I saw there were 2 different screen adaptations, so maybe I‘ll actually get to watch one of those. #scarathlonphotochallenge #skeletoncrew @Emilymdxn

My head is already slipping into the witching season, and I‘m itching to plan my October reading so I need book recs from you guys! My favorite is dark, gothic ghost stories/haunted house stories, the scarier the better. I don‘t care if they‘re period or contemporary, but I can‘t do any kind of gore or body horror. I LOVE Simone St. James, and the tagged book was my favorite spooky story last year…

Loved the vocabulary, the feel and visual writing, with a decent story. Very well done in writing to match the period. Much better than the movie adaptation.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

Fourth book finished for #NovelNovember. @Andrew65

I enjoyed this suspenseful ghost story set in a haunted house. It feels very much like a classic gothic story from the 19th century, though it was written in 1983.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#192025 #1983 @Librarybelle

@Eggs Thanks for the tag!

If a book is set less than 50 years ago it doesn‘t really feel historical to me (I remember the 80s).

The tagged book was one of my favorite reads last month and it definitely hit the creepy fall historical vibes.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

@Chrissyreadit @JessClark78 @Texreader do you want to play?

#ReadingBracket2022 @chasjjlee

I am easily scared, so there's that, but this is a short & very well-constructed ghost story with a keen sense of atmosphere. Because of how it builds up & how it ends, it kind of worms its way into your mind & stays there. Less overt horror & more psychological accumulation of dread & terror; a "classic" ghost story, in a sense. Big shout-out to Spider, the dog, without whom I might have also passed out during some of the more intense moments.

I loved this classic ghost story! It was beautifully written, atmospheric, and just the right amount of scary to read in the dark. #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #Spookoween2022 @TheSpineView #31by31 @Catsandbooks #PointsAThon @dieareader @GHABI4ROSES #bodycountbingo @PuddleJumper

This story doesn‘t have a #BlackCat but I had my very own to keep me company as I read it today. (The story does have a very sweet dog though🐶☺️) #Scarathlon2022 #ScarathlonDailyPrompt #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious @Clwojick

#ThoughtfulThursday thanks for the tag @Andrew65
I like both but I do love a mystery more.
I'd rather read about a serial killer.
I like the book tagged above, always creeps me out.
@MoonWitch94
I tag @Eggs @Clwojick @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#OminousOctober #Black

This one has been on my Kindle #TBR for ages now. 🖤🖤🖤

#TeamMonsterMash

Creepy and such an eerie atmosphere. The writing was compelling and creepy, the descriptions were dark, gothic and had a continuous flow that made me binge read the whole book. The plot was a mixture of sad, scary and mysterious. I liked the different creepy ongoing and the haunting of the woman in black, her story is a sad one full of anguish. The ending was unexpected and entirely thrillerish, I overall greatly enjoyed this classic.

I have to say I was hesitant to pick up The Woman in Black because so many people compared it to The Haunting of Hill House, which I didn‘t love. But The Woman in Black is really good. Susan Hill‘s writing style is perfect for a horror novel. There was always this foreboding feeling hanging around. And the unexpected ending took if from a four star read to a five star read.

https://wildwoodreads.com/2021/10/28/the-woman-in-black-review/

#falltreasures @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Day 15: face on cover
The Woman in Black 🖤

This was a fun little gothic story that felt very much like a combination of The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House.

It was written in 1983, but feels like something something straight out of the Victorian era. From its language, setting, framing, motifs, tropes -everything- felt like a modern study on the Victorian gothic. There wasn‘t anything too scary, but the part that put a dog in danger had me grabbing my arm-rest!

I loved how this story began; a Victorian Christmas Eve around a fire telling ghost stories. Enjoyable story of a young attorney who travels to a small village to handle the estate of an elderly woman who recently passed. Best of all, he borrows a new friend‘s dog for company while he stays in the creepy mansion to sort through papers. The book is better than the movie. 😉🎥 #MountTBR

This was a good spooky not long read for October.

Attempts were made to stretch, move around, and get fed. We both failed at being upright with Pistachio going back to sleep and I to my ebook.

Tagged book is finished for day 1 of #24B4Monday! Since my print books are impossible to reach for I‘ll be looking over my tablet apps for something else.

@jb72 @Andrew65 @SumisBooks

A young, innocent man wants to analyze why a ghost is so full of menace. The paranormal bothers him greatly, but he does want to get to the bottom of it. Villagers won't help. Finally he learns the reason for the ghost's bitterness and it is disturbing to me.

#Scarathlon #TeamHarkness @StayCurious

4 hours of reading #CocosTurning50 @CocoReads #Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft #ReadYourOwnWay @TheSpineView #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
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Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94 and @NomiReads .
I have carved a couple when my girls were younger but not this year.
Orange but white can be cool too.
Tagged above. I found this pretty creepy
Would you like to play @Clwojick @Andrew65 @Klou @jenniferw88

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

#PLC @AkashaVampie @AsYouWish @ElizaMarie

#Scarathlon #TeamHarkness @StayCurious

Monster Stash (aka Pistachio) joining me in Friday night‘s reading of The Woman in Black.

#NovelWatchingCrew (#NWC)
@ElizaMarie, @AkashaVampie, @jb72, @AsYouWish, @mollyrotondo, @Readage, @Butterfinger

If I missed tagging a Novel Watching Crew member, please let me know and I‘ll add you to my list.

“I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence once lost, is lost forever.”
― Susan Hill, The Woman in Black

Who is your favorite Halloween character?

How would you survive a Horror movie or Book?

How well do you know these 90‘s Scary Movies, by their picture?
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/90s-horror-movie-picture-quiz-47769151

#NovelWatchingCrew #NWC

#MountTBRchallenge Number 72. I finally got to this one. Here is my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/272868622

This is a spooky, chilling ghost story, and enjoyable if you don‘t dig to deep.

But I kept having all kinds of questions. It‘s written in Victorian gothic style, but there seems to be motor cars and electricity. And how did they get electricity to such an isolated spot as Eel Marsh House, w/out electrical lines or generators? The whole setting just seemed a bit off, time period wise.

#screamathon
#booked2020 #gothichorror
#bookspinbingo

I've decided to read the tagged for this month. I've already read Rebecca and I don't read horror.

Since I don't watch horror either, my favorite horror movie is The Gremlins.

I didn't take the quiz, but I will add the link for others to take. https://www.lakecountrycalendar.com/news/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-your-classic-...

#NWC @AsYouWish @ElizaMarie @AkashaVampie

A new day, a new book.

Also watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, wonder if I‘ll be able to sleep tonight? 👻 #screamathon

And here is my October #bookspin list, which is a combination of #Screamathon and #PemberLittens selections.

#bookspin

Read it in a day! Walked to the library to return it already and forgot to take a picture so you get the picture of my finished pumpkins! 🎃🎃🎃 🏚️🌊🌊

#spookyscary
#shortfictionbigworld

Rating 3.5 /5
The Woman in Black is my first novel from the horror genre. So I'm doubtful on how to give a review of this. The story is about a young solicitor Arthur Kipps who has to travel to a rural village in England to sort out legal papers of a dead client in her middle-of-nowhere house where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman. Unheeded warnings, strange sightings and sounds, hauntings, you get the drill.

This is a great little ghost story. A short read but rather suspenseful and written in a Victorian style, this book packs quite a punch for how small it is. I really enjoyed reading this one. The ending however was so very sad and ended rather abruptly. Other than that it was a very enjoyable read.

Finished this off on YouTube as an audiobook whilst busy in the kitchen and the end gave me goosebumps!!

Eerie & Haunting
‘Had I known that my untroubled night of good sleep was to be the last such that I was to enjoy for so many terrifying, wrapped and weary nights to come , perhaps I should have not jumped out of bed with such alacrity ..‘

‘For I see that then I was still in a state of innocence, but that innocence,once lost,is lost forever‘

This little book is supposed to be a horror but it‘s too beautifully written to be all that scary. The imagery of the English countryside and daily life was just what I needed to hold me over until I can visit my boyfriend again in England ✈️ Hill‘s writing is so dreamy and I was feeling so nostalgic to go back that I was actually like down to live in this haunted house.

've not managed to see the film as my partner hates jumpy films but the book was pretty good. The style of writing took a bit of getting used to but the story was very well done. Not scary though.

This book is a delight. It has everything I want in a proper English ghost story: small village with tight-lipped inhabitants (and the names are wonderful: Crythin Gifford!); drafty, damp remote house (Eel Marsh Hall!); landscape at once beautiful and threatening (the silvery marshes!); and of course, a vengeful ghost (you know who that is). The hauntings here have a sense of tradition and are no less chilling for their familiarity.

One of the most horrifying parts of this book concerns Spider the terrier. I kept imagining Puck, my own terrier, in Spider‘s place.

Here's my book review for "The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill.
https://youtu.be/S3RZhB7f7Fs

#GratefulReads - Black In the Title: Once I had seen the movie, I didn‘t think about coming back to the book. I don‘t know why? I think that I felt satisfied with knowing this story. Litsy has changed my mind... now I would like to dig a little deeper so maybe this will be a selection for October 2020 reading.

Fabulous evening at the theatre for daughter‘s birthday seeing #TheWomanInBlack. So much fun watching her jump at the scary bits!

Despite my back pain, I‘ve been to see the Woman in Black at the theatre tonight and it was pretty good! Not as scary as I thought it would be, but good nevertheless 👻 🎃 🦇 💀