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Can anyone reccomend a good spooky read.....

68 replies

Eaney · 21/04/2005 17:51

Something along the lines of Woman in Black or something like the film The others.

Thanks

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suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:51

yes read all those, the Gary Oldman character in Hannibal was a reall let down wasn't he?, didn't have his facical skin missing for one thing

pixiefish · 27/04/2005 15:50

the hannibal books will have you scared

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:49

but bundle he looks postively burly here

Kayleigh · 27/04/2005 15:49

LOL @ Marina . Feeling a bit frisky love ????

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:47

I'm going to have to google images this Simon fella now, he'd better be worth it

bundle · 27/04/2005 15:46

marina, he was in the Observer food section the other week, pretending he ate normal things like steak n chips. nonsense, he needs a good feed!

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:44

so that's two votes for Barbara Erskine then?

Marina · 27/04/2005 15:43

Sorry, that was a ridiculous hijack

Marina · 27/04/2005 15:43

I'm more of a Simon Keenlyside gal myself, after seeing him prance his way through Orfeo a couple of years ago in not a great deal of clothing [phwoarrr emoticon]. Always been a pushover for a well-toned baritone!

alexw · 27/04/2005 15:43

How about Barbara Erskine House of Echoes - it really spooked me!!

binkie · 27/04/2005 15:41

no, not yet ... suspect I might anguish too. Partial to cheekbones

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:40

Internet Movie Database, gets you ALL the details of all your favourite films, it's wonderful see

I just thought you may have looked up that chap on that site, I use it all the time

Marina · 27/04/2005 15:36

Ian Bostridge was born to play that role. He really is a scary-looking, half-dead looking guy! Have you seen him anguishing his way through Winterreise Binkie?

binkie · 27/04/2005 15:36

parding? imdb, whassat?

Amberlilli · 27/04/2005 15:36

OOh! Suzywong you would luurrve The book I just recommended, it is just like that really creepy, scary, jumpy!!!

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:34

checked IMDB did ya Binkie?

binkie · 27/04/2005 15:34

Henry James

and I meant (a) Deborah Kerr and (b) Ian Bostridge, not Jonathan at all

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:33

In fact I think the whole something tapping on the window wanting to be let in is THE scariest premise for a story, particualrly if it's children's ghosts...

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:32

oh yes that's a good one, is it somebody James as well?

binkie · 27/04/2005 15:31

what about The Turn of the Screw? much much more than just a spooky story (and now that I have a boy and girl the age of the children ...)

in that case, the film (with Deborah whatsit, the black and white one) and/or the opera (so long as Jonathan whatsit - the one who actually looks undead - being Peter Quint) are equally chilling

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:29

I'll put that on my Library list amberlilli

yes the film of Beloved was a real pig's ear wasn't it, I've just read Toni Morrison's Love, which although not spooky is very very very good

Amberlilli · 27/04/2005 15:27

Just finished a fab book by Barbara Erskine called Midnight is a Lonely Place.
Could hardly put it down!!!!
Hence house work and children abandoned for whole weekend!!
If anyone wants it let me know!

binkie · 27/04/2005 15:24

oh YES MR James

... the soft ineffectual pawing ...

Beloved gave me some creeps, too, but only the book - bit spoilt by the film which was too concrete

suzywong · 27/04/2005 15:20

oh thanks for that I shall read it on the laptop in bed with the lights out!

Marina · 27/04/2005 15:11

I will now have to leave this thread thanks to that Suzy!
Yes, Lost Hearts is. Was memorably filmed for one of those old BBC 2 late night Xmas Eve spooky dramas.
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