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30.4-Nick KY’s Task: Murder in the Manor
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Approved for "Horror":
Can I get Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six and The Push approved for horror? They are both on the end and I am afraid they will drop off.
Thanks!
Some end-of-the-year lists have insisted that Justin Cronin's
is not horror. In the GR Choice Awards, it was up for Sci-Fi. But I verify it for "Horror"!
[Currently -- 1/2/24 -- the genre "Horror" has fallen into the "Show More" category; but it is not yet in the "Show All" category, which would, as I understand it, disqualify it without this verification that it was in previously in the main page genre list.)
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The Wikipage for Murder Mystery Party game tells us: “The murder mystery fiction genre began in the first half of the nineteenth century. The party game, wink murder, dates back to at least the early twentieth century and sees one player secretly selected as a murderer, being able to "kill" other players by winking at them. A killed player must count to five before dying, and the murderer tries to avoid detection.”
Enh. In my arrogant opinion, I don’t know how much of that info is true. But the idea I am using here is that the “Murder” game started as an offshoot of fiction and involved parties set in Manor Houses.
This is a two book task. Read two books from two different options.
No books with the genre of “Children’s” may be used for this task.
Opt. A.
For this option read a book from one of the following “Manor House” lists:
Whodunit Mansions
Novels about Big Houses
Best Victorian Historical Fiction Set In Britain
Required:State the list and the page
Opt. B. My favorite literary quotes about a country manor house comes from the first paragraph of Shirley Jakson’s The Haunting of Hill House. I have chills every time I read it: “…silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
Read a book with an MPG of “Horror” – because you can still read horror over Christmas. Genre may be embedded IE Gothic Horror
Opt. C. If the murder mystery in fiction began in the early 19th century Britain, then it started out as an offshoot of Gothic literature. Because the stories often told narratives associated with prisoners who were goaled in Newgate Prison (or some other prison), the genre was called the “Newgate Novel.”
Read a book which has a three-letter-or-longer word in the title or subtitle that can be made from the letters in the phrase: NEWGATE PRISON.
Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
Required: state the word