August Challenge: My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland

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And now, the results of July's poll, Kick-Assitude!

The results for August were not a big surprise. It didn't take long for the winner to take the lead, but really, with a title like that? It's no surprise. After 27 votes, the winner is...

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[ardys_the_ghoul]

Sorry to comment again--however, I was trying to think of something to suggest for October, and I had a thought. I've read a lot of horror, or at least scary, eerie, or mysterious literature, but at first I drew a blank for a proper book club pick.

I love ghost stories, but most of the ghost stories I've read are short stories rather than full-length novels. And then, I thought of a book I've read numerous times, an October staple for me, and a classic:

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Technically, it's a mystery, not a ghost story or horror story, and pretty tame by modern standards, but the atmosphere evoked in this book is fantastically eerie, even without the threat of a mythical hellhound wandering the sparsely populated countryside.

Yes, it's a later addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, but you actually don't need to read any other Holmes stories to get it, and even among Holmes fans (and yes, I'm one of them) there's an ongoing argument as to when exactly in the series' timeline this story happens.

It's also the best Holmes story Doyle ever wrote, and I'm not the only one who thinks so.

It is an older book, sure, but I think we have to give some love to the classics now and then.

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Thanks for the suggestions! :)