It's all Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill's fault
Oct. 26th, 2010 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroSome to most of you will be aware of Neil Gaiman's attempt to start a new Hallowe'en tradition of giving people books of scary stories (something I approve of).
There's been a lot of talk about what books fit the bill, and almost all of this discussion includes John Bellairs' The House With a Clock in Its Walls.
Now, I remember seeing this book in my public library every single week when I was growing up, but I cannot for the life of me recall whether or not I've ever read it, despite it sounding exactly like My Kind of Thing.
Neil provided a link to Joe Hill's discussion of same, who recommends (amongst other things) Ray Bradbury's collection of horror stories, November Country.
I have somehow just ordered both of the above as well as Something Wicked This Way Comes, which I definitely read when I was 12 and have been meaning to re-read ever since.
Whoops.
There's been a lot of talk about what books fit the bill, and almost all of this discussion includes John Bellairs' The House With a Clock in Its Walls.
Now, I remember seeing this book in my public library every single week when I was growing up, but I cannot for the life of me recall whether or not I've ever read it, despite it sounding exactly like My Kind of Thing.
Neil provided a link to Joe Hill's discussion of same, who recommends (amongst other things) Ray Bradbury's collection of horror stories, November Country.
I have somehow just ordered both of the above as well as Something Wicked This Way Comes, which I definitely read when I was 12 and have been meaning to re-read ever since.
Whoops.
