Seen in a Corsica winery, last week. No pumpkins, but let nobody say the French (well, the Corsicans, anyway) don't keep the spirit of the season.
And with that, I'll raise a glass to Moonlight and OB for hosting another fabulous Halloween Bingo! I had an enormous amount of fun, and it was great watching everybody else's Halloween reads and comparing notes.
Thank you so much!
(Also, bingos Nos. 12 & 13 ...)
Country House Mystery: Georgette Heyer: Penhallow (Ulli Birvé audio)
Cryptozoologist: Patricia A. McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Dina Pearlman audio)
Romantic Suspense: Susanna Kearsley: A Desperate Fortune (Katherine Kellgren audio)
Terrifying Women: Mary Roberts Rinehart: Locked Doors (Anne Hancock audio)
Terror in a Small Town: Joy Ellis: Their Lost Daughters (Richard Armitage audio)
A Grimm Tale: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (Emilia Fox / Richard Armitage audio)
Genre: Horror: Michael McDowell: Gilded Needles (R.C. Bray audio)
Gothic: Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (3 audio versions, narrated by Anna Massey, Emma Fielding, and Emilia Fox)
Murder Most Foul: Anthony Berkeley: The Wychford Poisoning Case (Mike Grady audio)
Doomsday: Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon
13: The Detection Club: Verdict of 13 (anthology)
Supernatural: Neil Gaiman: Norse Mythology (audio version, narrated by the author)
Free Space: Mavis Doriel Hay: Murder Underground (Patience Tomlinson audio)
Amateur Sleuth: Fredric Brown: The Fabulous Clipjoint
Southern Gothic: Sharyn McCrumb: The Ballad of Frankie Silver (audio version, narrated by the author)
Ghost Stories: Charles Dickens: The Ghost Stories, Vol. 1 (Phil Reynolds audio)
Cozy Mystery: Alan Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Emilia Fox audio)
New Release: Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling): Lethal White (Robert Glenister audio)
Diverse Voices: Walter Mosley: White Butterfly (Michael Boatman audio)
Creepy Carnivals: Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus (Adjoa Andoh audio)
Fear the Drowning Deep: Daphne du Maurier: Frenchman's Creek (John Nettles audio)
Classic Horror: Edith Wharton: Ghosts: Edith Wharton's Gothic Tales (audio version, various narrators)
Darkest London: Andrew Taylor: The American Boy (Alex Jennings audio)
Genre: Suspense: M.P. Shiel: Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk
Relics and Curiosities: Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic (Nigel Planer audio)
"Virgin" card posted for ease of tracking and comparison.
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One of those Discworld books that only get better with every single reread. Pratchett absolutely hit his stride with this ... one of my all-time favorites, by far not for the Shakespeare references alone.
Final square -- revisiting Rebecca with the idea of a comparison review of the 3 audio versions I own (narrated by Anna Massey, Emma Fielding, and Emilia Fox, respectively).
23 squares down, 2 to go.
So far it's mostly enjoyable -- let's hope it's going to stay that way. Turns out I could also have included that in my "Summer of Spies" reading ...
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