#RIP Challenge 2022 Reading List
You can SIGN UP RIP XIV here.
- Rules: Read or watch dark, creepy, gothic books, films or TV shows.
- Timeline: 01 September and 31 October.
- Hashtag: #RIPXVII
- RIP = R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril challenge
Update: 07 September: This is my sign-up post for RIPXVII.
Update: 03 September:
- The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
- … it was impossible to read (first 50 pages)
- …could not follow the story.
- DNF after reading 25%
- …putting this book on the back burner.
- After a good nights sleep….
- I will TRY to finish the AUDIO book!
- Great A’Tuin is a turtle…with four World Elephants and a disc-shaped world
- Ankh-Morpork is the largest city on the Disc with about a million inhabitants.
- It is also one of the most common locations for the Discworld stories.
- This is all difficult to digest
- ….I need time to settle into Pratchett’s bizarre Discworld!
Genres:
- Horror – The Shining (659 pg) – S. King (1977) – novel
- Gothic – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146 pg) – S. Jackson (1962) novella
- Gothic – The Haunting of Hill House (182 pg) – S. Jackson (1959) – novella
- Gothic –The Sundial – Shirley Jackson (245 pg) – S. Jackson (1958) – novel
- Gothic – Mexican Gothic (301 pg) – S. Moreno-Garcia (2021) – REVIEW
- Fantasy – Penric’s Demon (129 pg) – L. McMaster Bujold (2015) …review in progress novella
- Horror – Holly and the Nobodies (334 pg) Ben Pienaar (novel)– REVIEW
- Supernatural – Ring Shout – P. Djèlí Clark (185 pg) – REVIEW – novella
- Mystery – Wrong Man Down (CF) (2022) – Jerry Masinton – REVIEW
- Fantasy: – The Colour of Magic (228 pg) – Terry Pratchett (1983) – REVIEW
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Fantastic list, dark and creepy! I can also recommend horror films The Babadook and Midsommar, if you have not already watched them, that is!
Thanks so much for you comment…and film suggestions!
I will look those films up on IMDB.
I tired to select a book from each genre…and of course CF is suspense. I have a few CF’s on my Kindle TBR!
I hadn’t thought of Perfume as Gothic, but if you define Gothic as ‘ darkness, death, love, and supernatural elements’ as one site did, then yes, Perfume is a Gothic story (with depravity as it’s sub-genre!!) Be prepared.
(I loved it though)
This challenge ( RIPXVII) is not one I follow every year but is excellent to force me to read out of my comfort zone! Just finishing a creepy book with a high #JICK factor! Still I found things I did like about the book. What was your last “creepy” book?
I don’t usually read creepy books, so I can’t event think of one atm!!
Possibly a Stephen King book, but I haven’t read one of his in years either. It might be the children’s book, Coraline by Neil Gaiman – a truly creepy experience!