R.I.P Challenge Part V

I really didn't need to sign on to anymore challenges this year but since the R.I.P. Challenge is all about scary and mysterious books I couldn't resist.  It's not like I don't already start delving into them this time of year anyway.  For those of you not familiar with this challenge R.I.P. stands for R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril and is hosted by Carl of Stainless Steel Droppings and this is the 5th time to host it.  The challenge runs from Sept. 1st through Oct. 31st of 2010.

The rules seem to be pretty easy and there is a level for people who only want to read one book.  I on the other hand am going for Peril The First level.  All I have to do is read 4 books that can fall into the broad categories of Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Dark Fantasy, Gothic, Horror, or Supernatural.  I will probably read a lot more than that but we'll see.  I may even do the Short Story Peril, which should be self explanatory.

This year he even added a Peril On The Screen segment and since I love horror movies and that's about all I watch in October, I'm psyched for this one.  Not that I needed an excuse or anything.

Now I don't normally list the books I may end up reading for the challenge but since I have the ones I want pretty much in mind I though I would share a few of the potential choices.

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

Once... by James Herbert

The Sentinel by Jeffrey Konvitz

Bless The Child by Cathy Cash Spellman

Bound In Blood by David Thomas Lord

Desmond by Ulysses G. Dietz

Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Black Hills by Dan Simmons

The Neighbors by Carol Smith

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Various Agatha Christie books

Some of the books I may read for the Short Story Peril:

Great Tales And Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Midnight Graffiti edited by Jessica Horstring and James Van Hise

Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

The movies are too numerous to list but either of the above lists can change at anytime.