Pinned: Gothic and Otherwise in September

In Arizona, in the valley, September is *almost* autumn. The average highs don’t fall below 100F until mid-month, but the days become noticeably shorter. There’s football on the television and fall ultimate frisbee league begins. It is the start of my favorite third of the year and my reading tastes turn darker than usual.

Michelle at Castle Macabre is here to help usher in the season (no pun intended):

In addition to the three Poe stories for the readalong, I’m probably only going to read one novel that is roughly “gothic” in September: Robert Bloch’s Psycho. I’m sort of interested in whether it really does fit some of the Gothic tropes. I might fit in another short novel in, maybe a reread of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, but we’ll see.

My “magic” book for the month is going to be Ricky Jay’s Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. It’s a bit episodic so I may read it intermittently rather than straight through.

I also have two ARCs scheduled for September. It’s going to be a dual of supernatural Westerns with Paul Lederer’s Showdown at Guyamas and Deadlands: Ghostwalkers by Jonathan Maberry.

It’s going to be a good month.