NYRB Classics discussion

Sorry to be so late with this. I thought I had posted and am having a busy month. For November members voted to select NYRB books from the theme of ghosts and haunted houses. Please pick a NYRB of your choice to read for the month on that theme and hopefully share your selection and thoughts on the book in the discussion topic. Feel free to be creative as you wish with the them. I am interested in what others plan to read.

I’ve always wanted to reread The Green Man, so I’ll probably read this, unless I find one I have not yet read that works.

The Green Man is an anticipated read for me but I am reading Malicroix by Henri Bosco.I am using this theme to choose a book I would not ordinarily read and one that probably won't be voted in on most polls.

Any other books being planned by those intending to take part in this themed read?

I own Malicroix, but I've never read it so I'm game to read that one.

I am not going to put up a separate folder for this month's group read since the choice of book is up to the reader. We can continue to use this folder for any thoughts on our books or the them in general.

I won't start Malicroix till next weekend.

In the meantime, 1) Do any of you have a favorite haunted house story now or ghost story published by NYRB? 2) How about a favorite classic published by anyone? 3) What is a favorite film in the genre? 4) Why do you love ghost/haunted house stories?
5) Do you have a personal ghost or haunted house experience you would like to relate?

My answers to the first four, and I will cheat:

1) A) "The Jolly Corner,' The New York Stories of Henry James Henry James This is not as famed as "The Turn of the Screw," but quite eerie in the same ambiguous way.
B) Troubles J.G. Farrell This may not be known as a haunted house story but the mansion was creepy as hell. And what an ending!!

2) Another tie between A) The Haunting of Hill House and B) We Have Always Lived in the Castle both by Shirley Jackson

3) I will pick a film from this year's viewing. The Conjuring, directed by James Wan. 2013 My runner up would be the TV episodes, collected films, and spinoffs of the Addams Family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_et...

4) The first answer is the thrill, the stirring of fear, but there also seems a desire to to put order and explanation to the unexplained. The Haunted House story allows that theme to be played out in our imaginations perhaps consoling us from the prospect of the real unexplained questions.

Number five I will address in another post.

I have been in a slight reading slum that has set me back in my reading but am now trying to push through. I will start Malicroix today but will be reading it slowly at first.

Well we are near the end of the month and I am finally getting to Malicroix. I need to prioritize my NYRB reads closer to the beginning of the month.