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Most of the books of my childhood were based on what the local library had, so there's possibly some odd choices here or there.

The Luvender trilogy by June Considine. I have no idea if anyone remembers these or if they were ever widely known at all, but I adored them. They were creepy as hell. They had soul-stealing porcelaine dolls, a sorceror trying to steal the souls of children to fuel his immortality, a weird red bird that took evil souls down a dark river, a mudslide that had innundated the town years ago, a ghost girl linked to an iron gate who sacrificed herself, and a whole bunch of other weird, horrifying and awesome things.

The Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the Secret series, and more or less every book Enid Blyton ever wrote. I was big on mysteries as a kid, and remember being distinctly pleased when I figured out a plot twist ahead of the story once or twice.

"A Wild Ghost Chase" by D.J. Enright. I liked Scooby Doo as a kid, and basically read anything that looked like it might give me something similar. I remember this one mostly for the way he used the Undine story.

Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". I think. One of his nonsense books, anyway. Our other main source of books besides the library was my granddad, who tended towards mythology, poetry and Irish stories. Which, speaking of ...

"The Hounds of the Morrigan" by Pat O'Shea. Memorable to me primarily for making me honestly fear for the lives of the protagonists at various points, giving me a mild fear of being run down by dogs, and for having the three aspects of the Morrigan as cool, evil old biker ladies which multicoloured hair.

The Giltspur series by Cormac Mac Raois. A pair of farmer's kids in Wicklow find that the Bealtaine feast has caused their mouldy scarecrow to be possessed by Glasan, a fae prince, and they get rapidly dragged into mythological battles. I can't remember which book it was in, but the other scarecrow, the evil one, had a rotting turnip for a head and was honestly trying to kill people, and he freaked me the hell out.

The De Danann Tales by Michael Scott. Again, kids thrown into the deep end of Irish Mythology, though with a more overt fantasy take in this case, and a bunch of elemental powers and sword and sorcery tropes thrown in. Never hurts.

More on the Welsh/English/Norse side than the Irish, but Alan Garner's "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen". There were other stuff with Norse myth elements as well. The Forbidden Game trilogy by LJ Smith (I never got into her vampire series, but Forbidden Game was the best). Catherine Fisher's Snowwalker trilogy. "Five Days of Luke" by Diana Wynne Jones. A lot of Wynne Jones, actually, I always liked her stuff.

I think we can safely say that I had a think for mythological adventure stories as a kid? Or, being honest, even still.

Looks like their is a good bit of suspense/horror in there as well! Do you enjoy scare movies as an adult?

AYRT

Depends. I adore ghost stories, and always have, but I'm not much for visual gore, so horror movies are hit and miss. I also have a terribly visible reaction to jump scares, which makes scary movies a touch embarrassing for me to watch in company. My sister told me once that she watches them with me purely to see the faces I make at the scary parts. And nobody ever lets me live down the fact that I once screamed during Scooby Doo on Zombie Island.

Apparently, I'm much better with scares on a page than on a screen ;) I still watch stuff anyway, just usually not in company.

Scares on a page are better because you can stop when you need to. Can't always do that with movies! And I don't like gory horror movies either.

The Hounds of the Morrigan! I didn't discover it until I was an adult, but I still keep a copy on my shelf.

I still have mine, too. It's a bit battered these days, but it fared better than our copies of the Shannara series at least. And our copy of "Return of the King". We, ah. We tend to reread books until they fall apart around here. Though we're more careful with the ones that are out of print or generally difficult to reacquire :)

I remember I really loved Hounds of the Morrigan but I haven't re-read it in an age. I used to take it out of the library all the time, back when you had to put your name on a card in the back of the book so I could see I was pretty much the only person who ever checked it out. Eventually it ended up in the library book sale so I bought it.

Huh, I haven't read anything on the list. :o

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