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⌈ Secret Post #3408 ⌋

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Re: What's your favorite book? What're you reading right now?

[(Anonymous)]

I have read way too many books in my life to name a single favourite. Even a top twenty would have me agonising all day. What I'm reading now, though, I bought myself "Ghost: 100 Stories To Read With The Lights On" (Editor: Louise Welsh) as a self-reward recently, and I'm picking and choosing my way through it. Some stories are old favourites, others are new to me, others I'd completely forgotten until I read them again. I'm really enjoying them.

Guy de Maupassant's "A Tress of Hair", I'd forgotten how weird and obsessive that was. Lovecraft's "The Terrible Old Man", yes of course go rob the creepy old man with a garden full of strange stones and a house full of bottles with pendulums in. This is a Lovecraft story, that won't go wrong at all. E.F.Benson's "The Room in the Tower", I'd never read that one before, I like it a lot. Flann O'Brien's "Two In One", we read that one in school, it's as gleefully gruesome as ever. "The Monkey's Paw", still one of the freakiest stories I've ever read in my life. I'm 90% sure I've read "Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts" before, but I could be confusing it with something else. Either way, it's a lot of fun. The one living man in a room full of brawling ghosts/skeletons/dead people gets his toe trod on and instinctively punches the offending dead guy's head clean off. He literally punched the head off him.

Also I really love this (translated) bit from "The Haunted House" by Pliny the Younger:

"He looked round, beheld and recognised the figure he had been told of. It was standing and signalling to him with its finger, as though inviting him. He, in reply, made a sign with his hand that it should wait a moment, and applied himself afresh to his tablets and pen. Upon this the figure kept rattling its chains over his head as he wrote."

Athenodorus the philosopher spends the night in a haunted house and ends up telling the ghost to wait a minute til he finishes this line. I love it.