Join the R.I.P. reading challenge!
image courtesy Abigail Larsen
R. I. P. aka Readers Imbibing Peril
I love gray skies, don’t you?
Of course you do. That time of year when pumpkins multiply in mysterious ways (you turn your back for a second and suddenly whole fields of pumpkins surround you–it’s spooky!), when footsteps echo on a foggy eve, when the graveyard beckons, whispering,”I see you. Come closer.”
Not the least of the reasons for autumn joy is the R.I.P. reading challenge hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings. All you have to do is indulge in your favorite pastime–reading with a focus on the chilling–and share in the fun. I’m going to do Peril the First, which entails reading and reviewing four books. Easy, peasy. As always, my choices will run to ghost novels. My first book will be Heartless by Gail Corriger.
Are you ready to join in the spookiness? Click here for the signup page.
42 thoughts on “Join the R.I.P. reading challenge!”
I love your intro to this post and the great photo of gate with spiders. It really gets me in the fall mood.
Thanks, Cindy. The spider gate is close to my daughter’s house in Green Lake near Seattle. I walk by it every day when I visit her. I love it, too.
Love this idea! I’m such a Halloweener! Lol
Thanks
Cool! It would be fun to have you join in, Ashley.
This really looks quite scary. I love the gate, not sure I would be able to open and go in. (I am a scaredy cat)
Hi Judy,
Ha ha! I hadn’t thought of that problem.
The gate is to scary for me. I hate spiders.
Hi Deb,
So do both my daughters.
Nice for Halloween
So true, bn.
I love the spooky. What great decor for the gate.
I agree, Debra. I think it would be a conversation starter for sure. Guess with that gate you’d have to throw Halloween parties every year.
I might be getting on in years ,but I do read Y.A. books sometimes they are a lot of fun.
I do, too, Petula. The new ones are fun, and some of the great classics, too, (Anne of Green Gables, Huckleberry Finn) are shelved in the YA section.
Wow, your book look and sound awesome.
Thank you, Lizzieabeth, for your kind words.
That’s a great gate. I wonder if it keeps out unwanted visitors. Who knows what awaits by the door (or behind it).
I’m in for the challenge as well, let the fun begin!
As always, I’m looking forward to your offerings, Delia. Definitely ready for some fun!
Can you imagine walking by that at night, dark, no lights. You stop to look at the gate because it is cool. Then you see this big thing on the top right and you scream!! priceless.
Irene, so true! I could totally see that happening. The owners must be used to it. No doubt they get a lot of trick-or-treaters.
Hi I’m Carlos, thanks for being an inspiration.
Great intro to the Fall season!
Thanks, Connie. Fall is definitely my favorite time of year.
Love the gate but wouldn’t have the nerve to go through it!!!
That’s funny, Maggie. I can be a big chicken about a lot of things, but for some reason, spiders don’t do it to me.
I love the gate with the spider on it. We don’t celebrate Halloween much in New Zealand but it looks like so much fun 🙂
Hi Judy,
Yes, when my kids were growing up, Halloween was their favorite holiday. If you want to get a taste of the American holiday tradition, the movie Hocus Pocus is a lot of fun!
I would love to have a spider gate like that one!
I would too, Denise! But then my kids would probably never visit me.
Really? I thought kids would really love this.
My kids (now grown and on their own) are phobic about spiders, always have been. I don’t know where they get it as neither my husband nor I am afraid of them. (I’m a fraidy cat about a bunch of things, but not spiders.) It doesn’t help my daughters’ fear that I would not let them kill spiders; we rescued them and put them on a nice plant outside.
Hmmm…maybe if we’d had a nice spider gate when they were growing up, they would have been comfortable with arachnids.
Where I live all the spiders try to come inside, before the snow comes and since we live in a house, that’s over 125 years old and has 12 foot ceilings, I’m afraid, the spiders are all dispatched to the great beyond.
My kids would approve! Your house sounds wonderful. I adore old houses! You’ve got me beat as my house was only built in the 1920’s.
Hooray for RIP! 🙂
Yep, RIP just makes the best time of year even better!
I love these images and the idea. Great post!
Thanks, Kasey. I always love the cool art Carl finds for the RIP challenge, too!
I have to be honest I love Halloween and all the spooky things that go with it. I would open the gate and go up them steps, slowly, step by step, then at the top my heart might be doing the pounding pounding. I love the gate with the spider gives it the extra spookiness. I use to take my sons and neighborhood kids to all the haunted houses. There was this one haunted house in an old farmhouse. It had three floors and this house was haunted. It was in our little town so we heard all the stories. Kid would go in there during the year, not Halloween and some of the stuff they said happened. Just looking at the house was spooky enough. Had to drive up this dirt gravel road, up this hill, and there it stood right there in the woods. When it did finally burned down two chimneys stood. After all these years it still stands the same. (I have goosebumps thinking about this house). Did I mention I love Halloween! Then they grew up, driving, and poor mom was left out. Now I’m disabled and can’t go because I can’t get down and crawl and all that good stuff. Maybe I could find on for the disabled, lol! Then I don’t know at my age if the old ticker can take it. The movie Hocus Pocus was on this weekend I think I watched every time it was on. I thinks this is the cute movie.
Hi Donna,
I enjoyed your stories. I’m jealous that you got to live so near an actual haunted house and so sorry it burned down! I love Hocus Pocus and try to watch it this time of year. I’m also always on the lookout for ghost movies and have seen some really good ones. Do you like ghost movies, too?
Hi Donna,
I enjoyed your stories. I’m jealous that you got to live so near an actual haunted house and so sorry it burned down! I love Hocus Pocus and try to watch it this time of year. I’m also always on the lookout for ghost movies and have seen some really good ones. Do you like ghost movies, too?
What a wonderful introduction for October! Love the spider gate and your atmospheric prose. May your Halloween be haunting!
Thank you for your kind words. I wish you a haunting Halloween as well.