Halloween

[close] Welcome to the 2015 Halloween Challenge! The goal is to complete as many of the following challenges as possible during the month of October. Feel free to go in order, skip around, and/or substitute any other spooky stories for those you've already read. Books in quotes are what we, the moderators, will be reading - you're welcome to read along with us or choose another book, graphic novel, short story, etc. that applies! 1. Dracula - Bram Stoker 2. Frankenstein -Mary Shelley 3. A short Story by Edgar Allan Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher) 4. A ghost story (The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis) 5. A book by Stephen King (The Shining) 6. A book with supernatural creatures (Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice) 7. A Classic Horror Tale (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving) 8. A Neil Gaiman book (The Graveyard Book) 9. A Mystery (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson) 10. A work of Gothic Fiction (The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux) 11. A story by HP Lovecraft (The Tomb) 12. A story with "Halloween" in the title (The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury) 13. A book with Black and/or orange on the cover (Woman in Black - Susan Hill)

[close] Welcome to Duskville, a place of spooky secrets and dark desires. Here, you will explore and role play as: Ѽ A monster Ѽ An explorer or Ѽ An animal!

[close] Eternal darkness. Creaking. A pounding headache. Parched lips. The only thing you can remember is a name. A single name, that rings through your head, and no matter how hard you try, you can't put a face to it. Slowly, you push yourself up into a sitting position, flinching at the pain in your head. You can barely see two inches in front of your face, and as you stand, your legs become wobbly, as if you hadn’t stood before. As you squinted your eyes against the throbbing, and tried your hardest to steady yourself, you felt your eyesight slowly focusing, and adjusting to the dim lighting. You could now see that you were in a hallway, with a faint glow from a light at the end. You turned around to see if someone else was there, but all you could see was nothing. Upon that, you turned back around, and made your way towards the light.

[close] As we get closer to fall, this group focuses primarily on horror/mystery/thriller books, as halloween is coming up!!