Welcome to Litsy!

My #HauntedHollowSwap from @sprainedbrain is magnificent!!! Books, socks, candy, Halloween decorations, nail art, and other lovely spooky things. Just what I needed on this gloomy Saturday morning! Thank you Jenni - you‘re the best. And thank you @wanderinglynn for organizing.

My previous reading of william gay 'twilight' was an incredibly unsettling tale and Ive been looking fwd to trying him again. This was published posthumously +the end is ambiguous but the overall tale of a writer moving bk to tenessee w wife + dtr to use the 'Bell witch' legend as inspiration for a horror, +staying on the haunted farm allowed for some v unsettling scenes. I just wished there had been 50 pages more.
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I so wanted to love this. I really did. William Gay writes beautifully, making it hard NOT to hang on every word, but the writing wasn't enough to save the work this time. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of positives, but it simply felt incomplete and a little all over the place. My favorite part was the introduction focusing on Gay's life written by Tom Franklin. If only the entire book had been that fascinating. Oh well. On to the next one.

He knew the house was awake now, he could stand in its center and feel its heart beating around him, synced with his own breathing when he breathed, feel its attention on him, alert and focused as a cat watching a broken-winged bird.

Procrastinating on Litsy because I'm afraid to finish a haunting book alone with the baby on what's turning out to be a dark and dreary evening. 😨

Kinda creepy, not really that scary and the end was a little too abrupt for me. I gave it 3 🌟.

My sleepy reading buddy tonight #catsoflitsy

Hoping this one is spookier than the last...🤞

Why have I not heard of William Gay before? This book is great! Southern ghost story? Yes, please!!

I really enjoyed this one. It ranked up there with Haunting of Hill House for me. Gay layers in so many details that let you picture the scene perfectly, but he does it in a way that keeps the story moving. I definitely got the southern Gothic vibe off of this and the slow build of atmosphere and tension made it a perfect Halloween read. I'm looking forward to reading more of his work.

Dinner reading. It's supposed to be amazing. Fingers crossed! 📚🤘🏻💕

I'm bouncing around on my reads, but I finished this one yesterday. William Gay's prose is so good. He paints you a picture of the beautiful nature of Tennessee with a corruption of darkness. This is a worthy addition to the haunted house genre.

A literary horror novel filled with beautiful writing and a creepy storyline. I wish he would have been able to complete it. Nevertheless, I am excited to read more of Gay's novels.

"Something old and evil had happened here..."

Book 2 for the #underhypedreads readathon