Memory’s ’31 Tales of Terror’ reading challenge

I’ve just come away from reading Memory’s Sunday Salon post over at her reading blog Stella Matutina and I’ve discovered a really nice reading challenge she’s currently engaged in. Entitled 31 Tales of Terror, the challenge is to read and comment on 31 vintage horror tales that Memory will be posting every day throughout October. Here’s what she says:

Every day for the next thirty-one days, I’ll be featuring a vintage horror story on my blog. Most of these will be of the ghostly variety, but I’ve got a few favourites that don’t quite fall into that category. I’ve done my best to choose shorter pieces; the majority of the stories shouldn’t take more than five or ten minutes to read, at the absolute most. I’ll do my best to confine the longer ones to the weekends, when everyone’s got a bit more time.

Additionally, for those motivated by more than the opportunity for some good reading, Memory is also offering a prize of 6 BookMooch points, and an anthology of classic horror to the overall winner of the challenge i.e. the one who accrues the most points for reading and commenting on Memory’s 31 featured stories.

With it now being the 12th of October, Memory is already 12 stories into the challenge (she’s listed links to these in her Sunday Salon post), but with the stories being so short it’s not too late to jump onto the 31 Tales of Terror challenge and, if you’re inclined to, play ‘catch up’.

With a newly discovered love for both short stories and the classic macabre (a ‘flavour’ that’s closely linked to the pending challenge I alluded to in my own Sunday Salon post this week), I’m definitely jumping on to this challenge. I have zero interest in any prize incentive. I’m just jumping on the opportunity for another excuse to read some great hand-picked stories. Thanks for creating it Memory!

Edit: I have now created my own ‘hub page’ for this challenge so my progress, and links to my own reviews, can be followed