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2023 Decades Challenge
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1830s
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
1880s-1900s
The Witch of Prague and Other Crawford Horror Classics: The Screaming Skull, The Doll's Ghost, The Upper Berth, Khaled: A Tale of Arabia, For the Blood Is the Life, Man Overboard!
1960s
Ritual - David Pinner
1980s
Black Wind - F. Paul Wilson
Ghost Train - Stephen Laws
Live Girls - Ray Garton
1990s
The Girl Who Cried Monster - R.L. Stine
The Attack of the Aqua Apes - R.L. Stine
One Day at Horrorland - R.L. Stine
Monster Blood II - R.L. Stine
2000s
Exorcising Angels - Simon Clark & Tim Lebbon
Creep from the Deep - R.L. Stine
2010s
The Narrows - Ronald Malfi
Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 3 ed. - Steve Proposch
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Point Hollow - Rio Youers
Dead Ringers - Christopher Golden
2020s
Bloodless - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Games for Dead Girls - Jen Williams
How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix
All Hallows - Christopher Golden
Ghost 19 - Simone St. James
Mister Magic - Kiersten White
Episode Thirteen - Craig DiLouie
Stinetinglers 2: 10 MORE New Stories from the Master of Scary Tales - R.L. Stine
My spot - want to read some of my old paperbacks for this one.Have to think some more on how I will approach this challenge without just listing all horror books I‘ll read next year by pub date.
Definitely want to focus on some older titles.
2020':
2021: Below
2022: The Dismembered - Paused - A Man in Winter - Road of Bones - The Hollows
2023: Vandal: Stories of Damage - Churn the Soil - Unwesen - Little Mutilations: Three Body Horror Novellas - Hotbed - The Dead Shall Rise: Zombie Zombie Zombie - Die Schwarze Königin - Crater Lake: Schlaf NIEMALS ein - Hail Santa!
2024 - The Witch in the Woods
2010':
2014 - Mr. Mercedes - White
2015: Seeing Evil - Winterwood
2016: A Pumpkins' Halloween
1980':
1989: Ancient Images
This sounds really cool! Claiming this as my spot. :)I am not sure yet what I have in decades on my kindle so going to research it and then add in my decades on here. Decided to do 10. I found some cool stuff that I didn't know I had. That is what happens when you have 5000+ books in the cloud. lol
Going to have two books under some of the years. :)
10/10
1800's
(1887): The Canterville Ghost - read 8/10/2023
1900's
(1909): The Ghost Pirates - read 1/12/23
1970's
(1978): Devil in the Darkness - read 5/5/23
1980's
(1986) The Hungry Moon - read 2/4/23
1990's
(1993): The Summoning - read 3/22/2023
(1994): A Room For The Dead - read 6/16/2023
2000's
(2004): Dark Corner - read 7/8/23
(2007): Heart-Shaped Box - read 1/19/23
2020's
(2020): The House of a Hundred Whispers - read 6/26/2023
(2021): Paradise Club - read 7/14/2023
I will check them off as I read them. :)
my spot - interesting challenge :)I've changed my entry from 13 to 16 as I thought I wanted it to start at 1900, but looking for stories I found so many earlier ones, and I might go even further back as the year goes lol. now it's looking like this: one for each decade from 1870-2020.
I'm sure I'm going to have some struggles with the mid-19century, but I'm keeping the goal as for one of each, to push myself a bit to read something I normally would steer completely far away from :D
1870s
1880s
1890s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1900s The Ash-Tree
1910s
1920s
30s
40s Animal Farm
50s Fahrenheit 451
60s
70s Fluke
80s The God Project
90s Joyride
00s Depraved
10s Tell Nobody
20s Q
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My spot!
I've decided to choose 5 books written in or set in the 1980s.
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Thanks for setting everything up for us, Kimberly!Here's my spot.
I love this idea!1840 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
1850 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
1860 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
1870
1880
1890
1900s
10s
20s
30s At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
40s
50s
60s Murder With a Past by Ellery Queen
70s Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
80s
90s
00s A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
10s Zombies!, A Small World by R.S. Merritt 2019
20s Yours Cruelly by Cassandra Peterson
Such a cool challenge 👻I have chosen to read horror short stories instead of horror books though ... One short story, or novelette/novella, for each decade from 1900-2020 ... Hope this is not cheating 🤔🤭
Marie Helene's 2023 Decades Challenge
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This challenge idea is awesome!2023 Horror Aficionados Decades Challenge
1900s
� Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) by Lafcadio Hearn
1910s
� The Monster Men (1913) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1920s
� "The Wolf-Woman" by Bassett Morgan in Weird Tales (Sept. 1927)
1930s
� Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1934) by H.P. Lovecraft
1940s
� The Lottery and Other Stories (1949) by Shirley Jackson
1950s
� This Crowded Earth (1958) by Robert Bloch
1960s
� Black Easter (1968) by James Blish
1970s
� The Other (1971) by Thomas Tryon
1980s
� A Beastly Business (1982) by John Blackburn
1990s
� The Thief of Always (1992) by Clive Barker
2000s
� The Good House (2003) by Tananarive Due
2010s
� The Shuddering (2013) by Ania Ahlborn
2020s
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I love this idea, I'm pledging 14 books. 1890s: Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
1900s: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (1907)
1910s: Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer (1918)
1920s: The Thing from - "Outside" by George Allen England (1923)
1930s: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1931)
1940s: Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury (1947)
1950s: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
1960s: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (1967)
1970s: The Shining by Stephen King (1977)
1980s: Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (1982)
1990s: Summer of Night by Dan Simmons (1991)
2000s: The Terror by Dan Simmons (2007)
2010s: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones (2016)
2020s: The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz (2022)
I love this! I want to do 100 years of horror for it, so my goal is 11. 1920s:
1930s:
1940s:
1950s: I Am Legend (1954) Psycho (1959)
1960s: Rosemary's Baby (1967)
1970s: The Stepford Wives (1972) Night Shift (1978)
1980s: Firestarter (1980)
1990s:
2000s: Mystic River (2001)
2010s: Bird Box (2015)
2020s: How to Sell a Haunted House (2023)
Fantastic idea, I try do combine it with my goal to read a loot of classics, so here is my list for this challenge:Decades Challenge
170 (Metamorphosen)
1320 (La Divina Commedia)
1790
1800
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
My spot for 131890s: The Great God Pan (1890) by Arthur Machen
1900s: The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson
1910s: Lair of the White Worm (1911) by Bram Stoker
1920s: The Broken Fang (1920) by Uel Key
1930s: Burn, Witch, Burn! (1933) by A. Merritt
1940s: The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson
1950s: The Feasting Dead (1954) by John Metcalfe
1960s: Some of Your Blood (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon
1970s: The Amityville Horror (1977) by Jay Anson
1980s: Childgrave (1981) by Ken Greenhall
1990s: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) by Stephen King
2000s: Unspeakable (2004) by Graham Masterton
2010s: The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black (2013) by E.B. Hudspeth
2020s: Playground (2022) by Aron Beauregard
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2020
This is a fun challenge. Here’s my spot to track the books I’ll read!Start Date: December 26, 2022
End Date: December 31, 2023
Progress: 12/13
1900s: Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad (finished 3/12/23)
1910s: The Wendigo (1910) by Algernon Blackwood (finished 11/3/23)
1920s: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) by Agatha Christie (finished 2/28/23)
1930s: Sad Cypress (1939) by Agatha Christie (finished 11/16/23)
1940s: Crooked House (1949) by Agatha Christie
1950s: I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson (finished 3/25/23)
1960s: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) by Ray Bradbury (finished 7/6/23)
1970s: Hell House (1971) by Richard Matheson (finished 4/22/23)
1980s: It (1986) by Stephen King (finished 7/19/23)
1990s: Rose Madder (1996) by Stephen King (finished 5/29/23)
2000s: Coraline (2002) by Neil Gamon (finished 6/4/23)
2010s: The Outsider (2018) by Stephen King (finished 6/19/23)
2020s: ʾñٲ (2023) by Leopoldo Gout (finished 6/6/23)
Excited for this one! Progress: 3/12
1930s: Devils' Spawn by Charles Birkin (1936)
1940s: The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth & H.P. Lovecraft (1945)
1950s: A Visit: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Shirley Jackson (originally published as The Lovely House in 1950) ✔️
1950s: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
1960s: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (1967)
1970s: The Other by Thomas Tryon (1971)
1970s: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (1979)
1980s: Firestarter by Stephen King (1980)
1990s: The Haunting by Ruby Jean Jensen (1994)
2000s: Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (2004)
2010s: The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn (2013) ✔️
2020s: The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz (2022)✔️
Bonus Books:
My goal is 10 books for the challenge, each in a different decade.
Decades TBD.Goal is 85: Horror, SF, SF/Horror comprise probably 90% of my reading. I'd also like to reach out to earlier decades.
Definitely Frankenstein, 1816, and The Woman In White, and The Yellow Wallpaper.
2020's: FIND HER, Sarah Denzil, 2022. 2020's
ALL ROADS LEAD TO SOUTH WALES, David Owain Hughes, 2022. 2020's
IT LOOKS LIKE US, Alison Ames, 2022. 2020's
QUEEN OF TEETH, Hailey Piper, 2021. 2020's
CHRISTMAS AT WHEELDALE INN, Gemma Amor, 2022. 2020's
QUANTUM OF NIGHTMARES, Charles Stross, 2022. 2020's
ESCAPE FROM YOKAI LAND, Charles Stross, 2022. 2020's
DEATH'S CATHEDRAL, Ian Fortey & Ron Ripley, 2023, 2020's.
THE FRIDGE, J. R. Rain, 2023, 2020's.
CORE RULESET, Timothy Bryan, 2023, 2020's .
TAVERN OF TERROR VOL. 4, Ron Ripley et. Al. , 2023, 2020's .
THE GREEN PANTHERS, Tom Vater, 2022, 2020's. Horror/EcoThriller/SF
THE WHITE, Matt Micheli, 2022, 2020's
IT CAME FROM THE ICE, Boris Bacic, 2022, 2020's. Frozen Horror
THE DARK, Emma Haughton, 2021, 2020's
PIRANTULAS, Michael Yowell, 2022. 2020's
ALL HALLOWS, Christopher Golden, 2023. 2020's
HELL BENT, Leigh Bardugo, 2023. 2020's
2010's: ROOK: SNOWMAN, Graham Masterton, 2013. 2010's
THE LINGERING, SJI Holliday, 2018. 2010's
EQUOID, Charles Stross, 2013. 2010's
THE LABYRINTH INDEX, Charles Stross, 2018. 2010's
VOSTOK STATION, J. D. Huff,
2016, 2010's . Frozen Horror
VOSTOK (LOCH #2), Steve Alten ,2015, 2010's
ANOMALY, Hugo Navikov,
2018, 2010's
THE RAVEN MOCKER, Beth Smith, 2011, 2010's
NINTH HOUSE, Leigh Bardugo, 2019. 2010's
2000's:
1990's:
1980s:
1970's:
1960's:
1950's:
1940's:
1930's:
1920's:
1910's:
1900's:
The Lady's Maid's Bell 1902
Pre-1900:
Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The cult classic that inspired Dracula 1871-72
Fun idea! Gonna commit to 7
1960s Something Wicked This Way Comes
1970s 'Salem's Lot
1980s The Bog
1990s The Revelation
2000s A Choir of Ill Children
2010s The Shuddering
2020s A Cosmology of Monsters ✔️
This will be the spot to track my progress. My goal is 12 different decades. Good luck to all!5/12
1980's - - NECROSCOPE graphic novel by Martin Powell and Daerick Gross. Published 1986-1987
1990's - - DECADE: A DARK HORSE SHORT STORY COLLECTION comics anthology. Published 1997.
2000's - - TEACHER MAN: A MEMOIR audiobook by Frank McCourt, released November 2005
2010's - - SUPER NARWHAL AND JELLY JOLT children's graphic novel by Ben Clanton. Published 2017.
2020's - - MONSTERS: WE'RE ALL A LITTLE DIFFERENT - - DARK TIDES BOOK 5 anthology. Published 2022.
I will plan on doing one book from each decade. This will be my spot in the decades challenge:Badseedgirls 2023 Decades Challenge
1900s - The Valley of Spiders by H.G. Wells Published 1903
1910s - Casting the Runes by M.R. James
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s - The Chrysalids by John Wyndham Published 1955
1960s - Logan's Run by William F. Nolan Published 1967
1970s - To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer Published 1971
1980s - Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss Published 1984
1990s - Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez Published 1999
2000s - Earthworm Gods II: Deluge by Brian Keene Published 2008
2010s - The Shuddering - Ania Ahlborn Published 2013
2020s - When it Rains by Mark Allan Gunnells Published 2022
I'd like to join this one with a modest 10 book target;1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000 The Good House by Tananarive Due
2010
2020 How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
I'm going to be ridiculous and start in the 1870s with Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer. This novella predates Dracula by that other Irish guy. I will be shamelessly searching for ideas of what to read next from all of you, thanks :)
I'm going to read 1900-1990. I have titles for all decades except 1920s, 1940s. Does anyone have good suggestions for these decades? Thank you in advance and happy reading!
Heather wrote: "I'm going to read 1900-1990. I have titles for all decades except 1920s, 1940s. Does anyone have good suggestions for these decades? Thank you in advance and happy reading!"Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and The Road Through the Wall were both published in the 1940s.
For the 1920s, H.P. Lovecraft has a slew of work published then, including The Dunwich Horror and The Call of Cthulhu.
Netanella wrote: "Heather wrote: "I'm going to read 1900-1990. I have titles for all decades except 1920s, 1940s. Does anyone have good suggestions for these decades? Thank you in advance and happy reading!"Shirle..."
Thank you for the suggestions, Netanella! I've already read The Lottery (classic!) and am reading The Haunting of Hill House for the 1950s but will definitely add The Road Through the Wall on my To Read shelf. I'm reading Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness for the 1930s (love me some Lovecraft!), so I'm still a little stumped. Appreciate the new suggestions though (and my To Read Shelf grows and grows lol....)
Netanella wrote: "Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber, 1943Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, 1947"
Oh wow those (and your others) are great suggestions! Definitely going to read Doctor Faustus for the 1940s and am going to have to add Gather, Darnkess! to my To Read Shelf! Thank you!
No problem. I just added Leiber's book to my 1940s as well. I had it, but I didn't realize it. (Damn that cloud!)
Netanella wrote: "No problem. I just added Leiber's book to my 1940s as well. I had it, but I didn't realize it. (Damn that cloud!)"that's one of the reasons I joined goodreads long ago...I couldn't keep track of the books I had and had not. Nor the books I had read or had not read! Still, I have trouble keeping track lol
Joining! Hoping to read 3 per decade from the 60s through the 2020s:Progress: 7/21
1960s:
1970s:
1980s:
1.
published 19881990s:
1.
published 19902000s:
2010s:
1.
published 20122.
published 20142020s:
1.
published 20232.
published 20233.
published 2023
Mod
wow... this is really ambitious. Good luck!
Can anyone help me understand how to edit my comment? Or do you just add a new comment whenever you've added a new book to your list? For example, I commented listing the decades I've chosen, but I want to go in and add a book for each decade. Also when I click the link at the top for the reading challenge it's like the link is broken or something. What's the point of the link? I did add the books I want to read to a shelf. Sorry, I'm new to ŷ groups and challenges
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The link at the top is only for the mods to change something with the set up of the discussion thread. What you're looking for, to edit your own and add books, you should see an "edit" button on the bottom right side beneath your message (this will be the same for ALL your messages, only YOU can edit them). Press edit, and then you will have to scroll up usually to find your comment. It will be in a box that enables you to change or add to it. When you've finished, save it, and it will be the "new" message in it's place. That's how you add books as you go along. :)
I think instead of starting with a set of dates, I'm going to start with the most recent decade and work my way backwards and see how far I get with a minimum of 12. That would be one month at the very least, but I'm hoping to do more. I'm not counting re-reads, but do have my first few planned out.2020s 01/14
The Watchers by A.M. Shine 2021
2010s 01/27
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn 2013
2000s
John Dies at the End by David Wong 2007
1990s 08/13
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 1991
1980s 01/14
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker 1986
1970s
Alien by Alan Dean Foster 1979
1960s
The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell
1950s 04/22
Psycho by Robert Bloch 1959
1940s
1930s
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft 1931
1920s
Seven Footprints to Satan 1928
1910s
The Human Chord 1910
1900s
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 1909
1890s
The Island of Dr. Moreau 1896
1880s
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 1886
1840s 04/20
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Kimberly wrote: "Meg wrote: "Can anyone help me understand how to edit my comment? Or do you just add a new comment whenever you've added a new book to your list? For example, I commented listing the decades I've c..."Found it! I had to switch to "desktop site" in my browser (I'm on my phone) and now the option to edit shows up. I've been having the hardest time navigating GR because it's so different between the app, browser, and actual desktop site. Thanks for your help!
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No problem! Personally, I don't even bother with the app, except to read messages. There's too much I can't find/do--it's so much easier for me with the laptop. :)
Agreed! For me, the app is useless and I deleted it from my phone. Don't want to waste the space. If I need mobile access, I'll do the web-based version on my phone until I get home to a laptop or tablet.
My list:2010s:
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (2016)
2000s:
The Ruins by Scott Smith (2006)
1980s:
Cujo by Stephen King (1981)
I'm just going to say 8 as I'm in another book club that's not horror based so.... that's a lot of reading with a full time and part time job. :)If I'm doing pretty good, I'll add more but am planning on minimum of 8.
1950s The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 1957
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s - The Haunted Forest Tour by James A. Moore and Jeff Strand 2007
2010s - The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker 2015
2020s - How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 2023
1900s: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn /book/show/9...1910s: The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1913 /book/show/2...
1920s The Call of Chtulhu H.P. Lovecraft 1928 /book/show/3...
1930s: Shambleau C. L. Moore 1933 /book/show/1...
1940s Dr. Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 /book/show/3...
1950s The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 /book/show/8...
1960s Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury 1962 /book/show/5...
1970s The Other Thomas Tryon 1971 /book/show/8...
1980s The Tommyknockers Stephen King 1988 /book/show/2...
1990s: Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore 1992 /book/show/3...
...and I'm done!
So question, I have included Fatal Vision as my 80's read. This is a true crime novel, but I consider the the murder of a pregnant mom and two small children to be a horror story. What is everyone's thoughts on this?
Badseedgirl wrote: "So question, I have included Fatal Vision as my 80's read. This is a true crime novel, but I consider the the murder of a pregnant mom and two small children to be a horror story. Wha..."My opinion is any true crime novel is true horror.
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