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Six Degrees: Turn of the Screw & Other Spooky Things

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Inspired by the Six Degrees of Separation Meme hosted every month at Books are my Favorite and Best.

October 2020’s book is The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

A very young woman’s first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate…An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls… But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

What better book than Turn of the Screw for this Halloween month? Incidentally, since I am also participating in the 2020 Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) XV challenge this month, here are six spooky reads, all following up from Turn of the Screw.

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Dublin Murders, Season 1 (2019): Should you watch?

Dublin Murders

Are there two more unlikable characters than Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox? Are there? Probably, yes. But as the show, Dublin Murders, progressed, it was hard to think of more disappointing characters in recent fiction.

A young girl is murdered in the woods of a small (fictitious) Irish town called Knocknaree. There are certain shocking similarities to an unsolved crime back in 1985, when two children disappeared in the same woods. However, back in 1985, there had been a witness – a boy named Adam. But Adam couldn’t remember anything from that day and had to flee town because the folks there suspected him.

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Tale of Genji: Anime Movie Review

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a 1987 anime movie directed by Gisaburō Sugii and is a surreal, melancholic mix of fact and fantasy. It’s based on (large portions of) The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu back in the Heian period (794 to 1185) of Japanese history, also arguably the world’s first true “novel”.

Utagawa Kunisada & Utagawa Hiroshige – Tale of Genji, wood block painting 1853