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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 2h

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 296: #TheHuntForRedOctober by #TomClancy

This is #spooky month, but on 24 October it’s time for one of the books I loved best. A great story, superbly told with unforgettable characters.

Also, a great #movie with #SeanConnery and my first published paper! 🔴⚓️🔴

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 1d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 295: #UnaSplendidaFestaDiMorte (in English #TheShining) by #StephenKing

Yes, we all know the #movie by #StanleyKubrick with #JackNicholson… but who has ever read the #novel?

Without any #SPOILERS, there are many differences that make two different experiences…

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 1d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 294: #LoStranoCasoDelDottorJekyllEDelSignorHyde (in English #TheStrangeCaseOfDr.JekyllAndMr.Hyde) by #RobertLouisStevenson

Everybody knows about it, so there’s not much to add. A #cornerstone of #English #literature that influenced dozens of cultural products.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 2d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 293: #LeStregheNell’EuropaOcciddntale (in English #TheWitch-CultInWesternEurope) by #MargaretMurray

#Spooky #nonfiction that draws from th #records of real #trials as well as from #chronicles and #stories. Was witch cult a pre-Christian cult? Murray believe so.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 4d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 292: #10.000Zombie (in English #10,000Zombies) by #AlexanderCox

With a #preface by #RobZombie and illustrations by #DavidHartman, the book contains 10,000 #zombie #stories that can be created by combining the panels on the right.

What more? Brains… brains! 🧠 🧠

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 4d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 291: #PiccoloBestiarioCinese (In Chinese #聊齋誌異) by #PuSongling (in Chinese #蒲松齡)

A #collection of #short #stories in which #animals are the main #characters.

Endowed with great #personality and #complexity they conjure up many #spooky #moments and #situations.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 5d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 290: #TheAnnotatedAncientMariner by #SamuelTaylorColeridge edited by #MartinGardner

Is there anything spookier than #TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner?

“The nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold”.

The illustrations by #GustaveDoré rock!!!

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 6d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 289: #Beowulf by… an unknown author!

A well-known poem which is also quite #spooky, if you think about it: you got a #monster, a #hero that tears its #arm and slays it. Then, the monster’s mom and finally a fire-breathing #dragon!

I’d say it’s a lot, ain’t it?

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 7d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 288: #L’InquietanteSignoraDelPianoDiSopra (in English #TheLandlady) by #ConstanceRauch

A #descent into #madness: Jessica and Sam move with their daughter Patience in a nice house by the #Hudson but strange thing start to happen until #horror manifests itself.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 8d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 287: #DiventaCiòCheSei by #AndreaPresti

Once again, #spooky #October takes a break because someone spoke very highly of this book.

One of my #undergraduate #students told me it’s quite interesting, even if you’re not into bodybuilding. 💪💪💪

It made my #list.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 9d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 286: #Ingraham (in English #TheIngraham) by #ColinAndrews

#QuinnClancy is a #young #girl who wants to become a #doctor. 👩‍⚕️

She is finally accepted in a prestigious #college and everything seems to be alright, but she’ll see that all that glitters is not gold.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 10d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 285: #LaCasaDelBuio (in English #BlackHouse) by #StephenKing and #PeterStraub

The #sequel to #TheTalisman (which I haven’t read 🤦🏻‍♀️) focuses on #themes such as the importance of #childhood and the #horrors lurking in the placid life of the #American #provinces.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 11d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 284: #IlMisteroDellaCameraGialla (in French #LeMystèreDeLaChambreJaune) by #GastonLeroux

Not really a #horror, but an intricate #crimefiction #novel and one of the most well-know #Locked-Room mysteries ever.

Impossible to summarize the plot, so… let’s read it!

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 12d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 283: #IlCasoDiCharlesDexterWard (in English #TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard) by #HowardPhillipsLovecraft

A #young #man from #RhodeIsland obsessed with a warlock #ancestor of his that’ll eventually come back to #life, a #dungeon, and a bunch of #necromancers.

Phew!

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 13d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 282: #UnaCasaAllaFineDelMondo (in English #AHomeAtTheEndOfTheWorld) by #MichaelCunningham

I know we’re supposed to be in #spooky #month but if one of your best friends highly recommends a #novel, you got to make an exception.

A story of a polyamorous family.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 14d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 281 : #Loop (in Japanese #ループ) by #KojiSuzuki (in Japanese #鈴木光司)

After #Ring and #Spiral, the third #installment, which takes us directly to #Arizona alongside #KaoroFutami a brilliant #medicine #student.

Over there, he will investigate a mysterious #virus…

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 15d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 279: #Spiral (in Japanese #らせん) by #KojiSuzuki (in Japanese #鈴木光司)

After the events of #リンヂ, #MitsuoAndo investigates the death of his friend #RyujiTakayama.

Needless to say, he will bump into the infamous #videocassette.

Also, a movie by #飯田譲治 with #佐藤浩市. 📼

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 16d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 279: #Ring (in Japanese #リング) by #KojiSuzuki (in Japanese #鈴木光司)

Ok, this is #scary. The story of a #cursed #videocassette that brings #death to anyone who watches it after seven days.

Splendidly narrated, a cornerstone of the #genre. Also, a series of movies.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 18d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 278: #LaSentinellaDelMale (in English #TheSentinel) by #JeffreyKonvitz

#AllisonParker is a #model with a #traumatic #past who moves to a building that is actually a portal to #Hell guarded by a #sentinel.

Also, a movie by #MichaelWinner with #ChristinaRaines.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 19d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 277: #Dracula by #BramStoker

Let’s go on with #vampires… 🧛‍♀️ 🧛‍♂️ actually the #vampire par excellence or, at least, one of the most important of #literature and #folklore.

A #gothic #EpistolaryNovel with a rich and intricate #plot, with an incalculable influence.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 19d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 276: #IntervistaColVampiro (in English #InterviewWithTheVampire) by #AnneRice

One of the most influential #gothic #novels ever written and the first #installment of #TheVampireChronicles.

From #NewOrleans to #Paris, we learn the story of #LouisDePointeDuLac.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 20d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 275: #Frankenstein (in English #FrankensteinOrTheModernPrometheus) by #MaryShelley

I think we’re all know the #story, right?

Read, re-read, dissected, imitated, revisited… I think is a real game-changing work. Also, it inspired a plethora of cultural products.

CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 21d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 274: #TheStoriesOfEdgarAllanPoe by #EdgarAllanPoe

#Timeless #stories that keep haunting us after so much time. Among others #TheMurdersInTheRueMorgue, #TheCaskOfAmontillado and #TheMasqueOfTheRedDead.

The illustrations by #ScottMcKowen are a thing of beauty.💀

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 22d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 273: #Misery by #StehenKing

#October is what my nephew calls the spooky month, so I saved some novels for it.

We start with #TheKing himself. #PaulSheldon is a #writer who, after a car crash, is saved by #AnnieWilkes, his #1 fan.

That’s when things go south.

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CHEB17 @cheb17.bsky.social · 24d

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 272: #TerreEPromesse by #AlessioMirarchi, #Jean-RenéBilongo, #RiccardoRosa and #StefanoEsposito

Eight #stories by four #authors (with real different styles) that deal with #immigration, #exploitment, the #periphery of #Naples but also #hope and #resistance.

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