‘31 Tales of Terror’ Reading Challenge (Stella Matutina)
This is my hub page for the Stella Matutina 31 Tales of Terror reading challenge which is going on throughout the month of October (2008). The table below lists the stories (with links) that Memory (the brains behind both the challenge and Stella Matutina) has chosen for herself, and her challenge participants to read. Included are links to Memory’s review of each story together with links to my own mini-reviews once I’ve read the story.
A big thanks goes out to Memory for devising this fun and wholly topical ‘Halloweeny’ challenge.
| No. | Title | Read on | My Rating | My Review | Memory's Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | “Telling Winter Stories” by Charles Dickens | 13-10-08 | 2.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 02 | “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki | 14-10-08 | 4.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 03 | “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving | 15-10-08 | 3/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 04 | “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 15-10-08 | 5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 05 | “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs | 16-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 06 | “The Whisperers” by Algernon Blackwood | 19-10-08 | 3/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 07 | “The Silver Mirror” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 19-10-08 | 5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 08 | “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe | 20-10-08 | 5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 09 | “The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa” by John Kendrick Bangs | 22-10-08 | 2/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 10 | “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” by M.R. James | 22-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 11 | “The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch” by Ambrose Bierce | 23-10-08 | 4.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 12 | “Protection” by Valery Brussof | 23-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 13 | “The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows” by W.B. Yeats | 24-10-08 | 2/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 14 | “The Ebony Frame” by E. Nesbit | 24-10-08 | 2.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 15 | “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton | 24-10-08 | 2/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 16 | “Earl Beardie’s Game At Cards" by Anon. | 24-10-08 | 2/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 17 | “The Dead Woman’s Photograph" by Anon. | 24-10-08 | 3/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 18 | "A School Story" by M. R. James | 25-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 19 | “In Kropsberg Keep” by Ralf A. Cram | 25-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 20 | “In the Confessional” by Amelia B. Edwards | 26-10-08 | 5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 21 | “Ghosts That Have Haunted Me” by John Kendrick Bangs | 26-10-08 | 4.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 22 | “A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain | 26-10-08 | 3/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 23 | “Glámr” by Sabine Baring-Gould | 27-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 24 | “The Dampmere Mystery ” by John Kendrick Bangs | 27-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 25 | “An Inhabitant of Carcosa ” by Ambrose Bierce | 27-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 26 | “The Ghost in All the Rooms” by Daniel Defoe | 27-10-08 | 4/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 27 | “The Shadow of a Midnight” by Maurice Baring | 28-10-08 | 2/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 28 | “The Mystery of the Semi-Detatched ” by E. Nesbit | 29-10-08 | 4.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 29 | “How He Left the Hotel ” by Louisa Baldwin | 30-10-08 | 4.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 30 | “The Bully of Brocas Court ” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 31-10-08 | 3.5/5 | [link] | [link] |
| 31 | “The Tell-Tale Heart ” by Edgar Allan Poe | 05-10-08 | 5/5 | [link] | [link] |
