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

[Eaney]

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

Thanks

I hesitated to say this, but he did fling himself round in the BBC Winterreise "staging" in a very affected girl's blouse sort of way Binkie. One did rather want to slap him round the chops and tell him to get some backbone...

I'm going away now, bedtime for me, but enjoyed being on this thread.
Night Night

Goodnight Suzy, enjoy The Monkey's Paw!

I second Phil Rickman, I stayed up til 5am to finish The Chalice because I was too scared to go to sleep without some sort of resolution! he also has a very funny style and writes women very well, you get the feeling he likes them a lot. Also, favourite characters pop up occasionally from book to book which is always a rewarding treat.
I wanted to call my daughter Merrily but nobody would let me.

OliviaB - glad to find another fan ! (Normally people say Phil who?) In case you did not know he also writes as Will Kingdom, they are the same sort of territory but lean more towards crime and have a slightly more blackly comic tone.

Barbara Erskine is also a good creepy read.

just remembered one of my all time faves
Therese Raquin by Zola

if that doesn't put you off playing around I don't know what will

I see you mention The Woman in Black - have you seen the play? If not and you're due - that baby will probably pop right out there and then! I've seen it twice and read the book and it still does it for me! Don't ever watch the film, it is seventies rubbish and will ruin it. Another one of hers that is fabulous is 'the mist in the mirror' very atmospheric old creepy story. Highly recommend Barbara Vine or Nicci French for very good psychological thrillers.

not read all of this, so sorry if repeating, but Nicci French books are very scary, as modern/ real life settings.

Yes I think I've read them all, I love 'killing me softly' (again, not such a good film despite Joseph Fiennes) and I read 'secret smile' in one sitting - in the bath! The story totally freaked me. I once had a boyfriend who spoke in a similar way to the villain (he wasn't a psychostalker though, thank god!)

just finished 'secret smile' - had to finish it on the bus in daylight, could not read it at night! Also had to follow up with a very light and fluffy book! Also loved the one about the girl who was kidnapped, escaped but no-one believed her.... aghhh - brill!

I think they appeal to the paranoid in me! They are so dark, also like the one about the three different women (can't remember the title). Do you know if there's a new one due? I'm like this with Barbara Vine as well (although she is getting older and its beginning to show in her knowledge of the contemporary). I bought two Nicci Gerrard books in Tesco the other day - I don't know what she's like when she writes on her own. I haven't read them yet, have been too busy catching up with the rest of the world reading Dan Brown!

Therse Raquin is brilliant sw!
You're right about the playing around thing too!
Actually, I reckon everything Zola wrote is fab.

I was browsing in the Library today and it jogged my memory

also love La Bete Humaine, he does like a bit of slow poisoning doesn't he

Oooh and try 'Germinal' (French film version a few years back with Depardieu that was pretty good.) Also L'Assomoir.

Therese Raquin - fantastic book!

yes I must get back in to him, although my present surroundings are not very condusive to conjouring up bleak Industrial Northern France.

I like Maupassant too, before the syph addled his brain

sw..if you really try, I'm sure you could pretend to be somewhere cold and grey and grim! lol

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE BY ANNE RICE. BOOK'S FAR BETTER THAN THE FILM.