I *do* enjoy Halloween, just in my own special way...

[wordinista]

I am logging off for the rest of the night to curl up with my HP Lovecraft anthology, Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors, and possibly a cuppa.  (Or possibly hot chocolate. I kinda wish we had apple cider, actually, but I will make do with what we've got.)  Lovecraft was an effing genius.  He can give me the heebies AND the jeebies on a Sunday morning, never mind on Halloween night.  :D

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Ooooh, why am I only now considering re-reading Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner?  Oh, that was a GOOD one.  Oh, oh!  And... crap, what was it?  Wieland?  Oh, man, that was an awesome book.  (I am totally convinced that it inspired the movie Frailty, which is a top favorite of mine.)

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[rya-kelley.livejournal.com]

You and my husband both. Lovecraft never did it for me. I've always been a fan of Poe, though.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

I always tried to assign "The Tell-Tale Heart" around Halloween. That was one my students almost always loved. It's a favorite of mine, too. *cuddles her Poe anthology*

[rya-kelley.livejournal.com]

It's his poetry that really gets me. The Raven, Annabelle Lee. Classic.

[darkfrog24.livejournal.com]

Do not drink cuppa! Cuppa has more caffiene per capita. Cuppa will keep you uppa!

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

I ended up nixing the tea, but that had more to do with an internal debate of, "Do I really want to get up out of a cozy bed to brush my teeth AGAIN?"

The answer, of course, was no. :D

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

Lovecraft is fuuuuuun, although when you read him in a slightly giggly frame of mind his prose tips over from lurid to silly. And for some reason I can read about disturbing unearthly tentacles while eating spaghetti.

I personally was going to re-read Shelley's Frankenstein but I cannot find it. D:

....Now I want hot chocolate. Curse you. I can't play Final Fantasy and drink hot chocolate at the same time! *twitchtwitch*

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I ended up not making tea OR chocolate. (I'd already brushed my teeth for bed, and knew that'd ruin the taste, so I went without.)

Unfortunately, I couldn't find my Lovecraft anthology. Or my glasses. Though, being nearsighted, the glasses thing didn't bother me so much, because reading in bed I usually hold my book a little closer anyway (except I got really frustrated trying to look for my glasses when I didn't have my contacts in). So I took Mr. Gaiman to bed instead. Though now I've got a serious craving to find my Lovecraft anthology and read it. And Confessions of a Justified Sinner. And Wieland. And ... you know, oddly enough, not Morrison's Beloved. I don't know why, but that one never struck me as particularly spooky or "gothic," and yet it was included in a grad class I took on gothic lit.

Oddly enough, I've also got an anthology of the "best" horror short stories, and none of them are particularly scary. In fact, there's a Neil story in THAT one that's positively hilarious. Since it would be breaking copyright law, I most certainly do NOT think about photocopying it and sending to you. Absolutely not.

[somnambulicious.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween! (requires a free login, but trust me: you're going to want to read this.)

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I DID read that! <3!!!