A - Z challenge

[Justin]

this folder is to discuss anything related to the a through z challenge. Here is my personal list
A - Alone
B - Bones Are White
C - Children of the Night
D - Dead Clown Barbecue
E - Enemy Unseen
F - Fantastic Orgy
G -
H - Hurt
I - Invisible Fences
J - Jacked
K - Kin
L - The Last Town
M- The Minotauress
N - Nightcrawlers
O - Outpost
P - Pus Junkies
Q - Quest for Sex, Truth & Reality
R - The Ritual
S.- Snowblind
T - The Troop
U -
V - Video Night
W - Whisonant / Creatures of the Light
X
Y
Z

[Andy]

I feel like we are about to embark on a rousing game of skill and strategy.

[Kate]

I'm really looking forward to starting these challenges.

[Justin]

So does anyone have any A books on their tbr?

[Justin]

First to come to my mind is Animal Kingdom

[Robert Krone]

First ones to come to my mind are

[Kate]

ASBO
Abarat
Alien Aberrations

[Justin]

Apartment seven would be a good one right at the start of the year since it is a Christmas time novella. Alien aberrations has been on my list for awhile as well.

[Justin]

I figured out how to sort my to read list alphabetically and I have a ton of A books. When I get a chance I will list them. Should I add all the suggestions for each letter into my first post?

[Maxine Marsh]

This is cool, I'm in! On other challenges I've seen that the Q, X and Z are allowed to be a letter in the title rather than just the beginning.

[Maxine Marsh]

Can I save my spot here?
A-Z Challenge 2014

26/26...Challenge Finished!!!

A - The Arena by Jonathan Janz 6/25/2014 ★★★★☆
B - The Bleeding Season by Greg F. Gifune 2/3/2014 ★★★★★
BB - The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn 4/18/2014 ★☆☆☆☆
C - Children of the Night by Dan Simmons 1/14/2014 ★★★★★
CC - The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon 3/6/2014 ★★★★☆
D - Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite 1/6/2014 ★★★★☆
DD - Darkhouse by Karina Halle 3/21/2014 ★★★★☆
E - Every Dead Thing by John Connolly 7/14/2014 ★★★★★
F - Frayed by Tom Piccirilli 2/25/2014 ★★★★★
G - Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino 3/17/2014 ★★★★☆
GG - Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Mayberry 6/23/2014 ★★★★☆
H - Hell's Door by Sandy DeLuca 2/20/2014 ★★☆☆☆
HH - Hive by Tim Curran 5/27/2014 ★★★★☆
I - Into the Fire by Richard Laymon 3/28/2014 ★★★★☆
II - Into the Hollow by Karina Halle 4/24/2014 ★★☆☆☆
J - Jack & Jill by Kealan Patrick Burke 1/16/2014 ★★★★★
JJ - John Dies at the End by David Wong 11/17/2014 ?????
K - Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke 2/9/2014 ★★★★★
KK - The Killing Kind: A Thriller by John Connolly 8/12/2014 ★★★★★
L - Long Black Coffin by Tim Curran 3/4/2014 ★★★★☆
LL - Like Porno for Psychos by Wrath James White 3/10/2014 ★★★☆☆
M - Murderland by Garrett Cook 3/16/2014 ★★★★★
MM - Marrow's Pit by Keith Deninger 5/1/2014 ★★★☆☆
N - Necroscope by Brian Lumley 6/20/2014 ★★★★★
NN - Night Terrors by Jonathan Janz 6/8/2014 ★★★★☆
O - Origin by J.A. Konrath 3/18/2014 ★★★★★
OO - On the Lips of Children by Mark Matthews 3/30/2014 ★★★★☆
P - The Passage by Justin Cronin 1/28/2014 ★★☆☆☆
PP - Piercing by Ryu Murakami 3/28/2014 ★★★★☆
Q - Quest for Sex, Truth & Reality by Edward Lee 11/12/2014
R - Razor Wire Pubic Hair by Carlton Mellick III 1/3/2013 ★★★☆☆
RR - Red Chalice by Christopher Fulbright ★★★☆☆ 1/16/2014
S - The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan 4/14/2014 ★★★★★
SS - Salticidae by Ryan C. Thomas 11/23/2014 ★★☆☆☆
T - The Troop by Nick Cutter 6/19/2014 ★★★★☆
U - Unforgivable (Part One) by James Fuller 2/20/2014 ★★☆☆☆
UU - Ugly As Sin by James Newman 5/29/2014 ★★★★★
V - Villain by Shūichi Yoshida 1/10/2014 ★★★☆☆
W - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2/11/2014 ★★★★★
WW - The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon 2/13/2014 ★★★☆☆
X - Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My! by Sara C. Roethle 2/6/2014 ★★☆☆☆
Y - You Morbid Westphal: Redux & Illustrated by Steven Rage 11/12/2014 ★★☆☆☆
Z - Zombies and Shit by Carlton Mellick III 3/8/2014 ★★★★★

[Andy]

Blake Crouch
Jack Kilbourn

Would Neil Gaiman count?

[Andy]

By the way, do you guys plan to go in order or just at random until all letters are complete?

[Justin]

Whatever you want, I will probably check off any buddy reads or group reads as I go but will choose free reads in order for this unless I have something planned.

[Justin]

Good idea Maxine! I will add my list to my first post as I go. I am also making a folder for it in my books.

[Andy]

Here is my list:



A -
B - Blue World, Robert R. McCammon, 1/3/2014, ★★★★☆
C - Children of the Night, Dan Simmons, 1/2?/2014, 3.5/5
D -
E -
F - Fears Unnamed
G -
H -
I -Joyland, Stephen King, 1-29, 4/5
J -
K -
L -
M -
N -
O -
P - The Passage
Q -
R -
S - Snowblind, Michael McBride, 1/7/2014, ★★★☆☆
T -
U -
V -
W -
X -
Y -
Z -

[Kate]

My A-Z list for 2014

A - Alien Smut Peddlers from the Future 15/2/14
The Arena 29/6/14
Angel Dust Apocalypse 23/1/14
Ash and Bone 9/8/14
B - The Bighead 27/2/14
The Black Church 25/3/14
Bloody Mary 7/2/14
Broken Sigil 19/4/14
The Bird Eater 2/6/14
C - Candy 18/1/14
Corrosion 11/2/14
Crawl 15/3/14
Chances 18/4/14
The Children 17/6/14
CLOWN 29/8/14
D - Damnation 101 21/1/14
Dead Sea 7/1/14
Dead Trash: A Zombie Exploitation Quadruple Feature 4/2/14
Depraved 8/3/14
Dirty Martini 13/3/14
Draculas 2/5/14
Deadlift 6/5/14
Dream of the Serpent 1/6/14
Dead Five's Pass 9/6/14
Dark Zone 26/6/14
DarkFuse #2 3/8/14
Deceiver 19/8/14
E - Every Dead Thing 3/8/14
Elderwood Manor 30/8/14
F - Fantastic Orgy 28/1/14
The Fading Place 6/6/14
G - The Great God Pan 16/1/14
H - The Halloween Orgy Massacre 26/1/14
The Halloween Bride 13/1/14
Hell Gate 3/2/14
House of Corruption 13/5/14
How to Survive an Amazon Forum Troll Attack: a Writer's Guide 23/8/14
I - I Am the New God 30/7/14
J - Jack & Jill 21/3/14
K - Kumquat 6/7/14
L - A Life of Death 5/4/14
Lesser Creatures 16/4/14
A Life of Death: Episode 3 13/6/14
A Life of Death: Episode 4 22/6/14
Head Games 10/7/14
Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows 12/7/14
Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom 15/7/14
M - Mirror of the Nameless 14/1/14
Motherfucking Sharks 15/1/14
Mr. Midnight 9/3/14
Murderland 4/4/14
Menace 25/4/14
Monstrocity 12/6/14
Marrow's Pit 9/7/14
N - Night Terrors 8/6/14
Nightcrawlers 26/7/14
O - The Old One 5/7/14
P - Pumpkin Cinema: The Best Movies for Halloween
Q - Quarantined 28/12/14
R - Rusty Nail 9/2/14
Red Chalice 26/2/14
Red Cells 11/7/14
Rogue 10/8/14
Reaping the Dark 17/8/14
S - Snowblind 6/1/14
Sacrifice Island 17/1/14
Shattered 14/2/14
Snowbound 1/3/14
Seance of the Souls 16/7/14
A Storm of Swords 4/7/14
Skin Medicine 16/8/14
Savage 22/8/14
Severed 27/8/14
Summer of Night 6/9/14
T - Third Eye High 4/6/14
The Troop 23/6/14
U - Urban Gothic 13/10/14
V - Voracious 30/11/14
W - The Wicked 11/1/14
Whom the Gods Would Destroy 11/4/14
The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland #1 12/7/14
The Wraith: Welcome To Christmasland #2 13/7/14
The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland #3 13/7/14
The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland #4 13/7/14
The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland #5 13/7/14
The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland #6 13/7/14
When We Fall 1/8/14
The Wendigo 7/8/14
X - The X-Files: Year Zero 7/12/2014
Y - Yaccub's Curse 4/12/14
Z - Zom-B 29/11/14

Challenge Complete 28/12/2014 !!!!!!!!!

[Robert Krone]

My A-Z list


A - Apartment Seven
B - Blue November Storms or Beyond the Door or The Bone Worms
C - The Circle or City of the Dead or Cold River or The Colour Out of Darkness or The Crossings or CyberStorm or Crooked House
D - The Dead Lands or Deep Like the River or Dereliction
E - Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World or The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary edition published by Lonely Road Books
F - Fangboy or From a Buick 8
G - The God Patent
H - Heart-Shaped Box or Horns or Homestead
I - Isles of the Forsaken
J - The Janus Legacy or Jack & Jill or Joyland or Judas Goat
K - Kill Whitey
L - Lost Boy Lost Girl or Lord of the Mountain or Lullaby for the Rain Girl or The List
M - Miranda or Murder as a Fine Art
N - Neverland or A Necessary End
O - Once We Were Brothers
P - Prophets of the Ghost Ants or PillowFace or The Poacher's Son or The Portal
Q -
R - The Rising: 10th Anniversary Edition or Rosemary's Baby or The Ravine
S - Sacrifice Island or Scavenger Hunt or The Search for the Green River Killer or Silent Echo
T - The Templar Salvation or That Which Should Not Be or Thrall or Turn Down the Lights or Trinity or Tyler's Third Act
U - Ursa Major
V - Vampyrrhic
W - The Waiting
X - Ex-Purgatory
Y - You Come When I Call You
Z - Zambies: Archebacteria

[Justin]

A books on my tbr (I'm only taking the horror and thriller ones and not counting the ones already mentioned)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
After Midnight
The Alienist
All fall down John Saul
Alone
Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991
Among the Missing
Animals
Apartment 16
The Apocalypse and Satan's Glory Hole
At the Mountains of Madness
Audrey's Door

[Robert Krone]

Just thought of this one

[Robert Krone]

Andrew wrote: " Blake Crouch
Jack Kilbourn

Would Neil Gaiman count?"

I would say American Gods would count as that book falls into multiple genres. Excellent book, might read it again next year, though will read the anniversary edition.

[Robert Krone]

Other ones I didn't think about are

[Justin]

Justin wrote: "A books on my tbr (I'm only taking the horror and thriller ones and not counting the ones already mentioned)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
After Midnight
[book:The A..."

Three of these came up on my random tbr challenge list but at the mountains of madness should count for this one, the random tbr, and the classic horror. I'm going to go check the classic horror list to make sure but I think that is going to be my a book.

[Justin]

so has anyone else decided what they are going to read for letter a?

[Kate]

I'm choosing either ASBO or Animal Kingdom

[Andy]

Hmmm... Lemmee check my shelves, both real life and electronic...

(15 minutes later)

I am going to read American Ghoul by Walt Morton

[Maxine Marsh]

I'm going to have to go with The Abominable .

[Addy]

I think I will go with Ambrosial Flesh. I'll make a list later. My physical books aren't in alpha order.

[Justin]

Maxine wrote: "I'm going to have to go with The Abominable."

Nice choice, I just bought that one and considered using it for letter a but "at the mountains of madness" will count towards all three challenges.

[Maxine Marsh]

Oh, I've been wanting to read Ambrosial Flesh for a while too, now I'm conflicted! I may jump around letters here and there depending on what's going on in other challenges.

[Justin]

I'm not doing them in order either, just checking off what I can as I read it and using my blank letters to help me decide what to read next when not doing a group or buddy read.

[Addy]

Lets see, I think I have most of them figured out from physical books (good way to get them read):

A- Ambrosial Flesh by Mary Ann Mitchell
B- Books of Blood by Clive Barker
C- Catacombs by John Farris
D- December by Phil Rickman
E- Elementals by Michael McDowell
F- Fluke by James Herbert
G- Golgatha Falls by Frank Defelitta
H- The Hidden by Sarah Pinborough
I- The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
J- Julia by Peter Straub
K- Kindred by John Gideon
L- The Lost by Jack Ketchum
M- Moons of Summer by SK Epperson
N- Night of the Moonbow by Thomas Tryon

[Kate]

I have The Lost, Addy. Do you want to buddy read it when you get to it?

[Addy]

Sure Kate, that would be great!

If you change your mind Maxine, I'll buddy read AFlesh with you:)

[Andy]

The Lost is one of my random tbr reads, so count me in for that as well.

[Addy]

Will do Andy!

[Maxine Marsh]

Ok, Addy I'll let you know :) I'm up for The Lost by Ketchum too if you guys buddy read it!

[Robert Krone]

Justin wrote: "so has anyone else decided what they are going to read for letter a?"

Yeah, decided on Apartment Seven myself

[Maxine Marsh]

I would love some Q and X suggestions, if anyone has them!

[Justin]

Q
The Quarry
Queen of Blood
Quest for Sex, Truth & Reality

X
I got nothing

[Matt]

I guess i will try and do this one as much as I can though.

A - Abomination
B - Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1
C - Clickers III: Dagon Rising
D - Doctor Sleep
E - Exodus
F - Frenzy
G - Garaaga's Children: Ancients
H - House of Dark Shadows
I - Inside Man
J - Joe Ledger: Special Ops
K - Killing Kind, The
L - Loch Ness Legacy, The
M - Moon Rocks
N - New Watch
O - Operation Ice Bat
P - Pandemic
Q - Quarantined
R - Rift, The
S - Swan Song
T - Timescape
U - Untimed
V - V-Wars
W - Wolverton Station
X - XOM-B
Y - Yaccub's Curse
Z - Zombie Kong - Anthology

[Julissa]

A-Z HORROR CHALLENGE

Duration 1/1/14 through 12/31/14

11/26

A- Afraid
B- Born To Bleed: A Thriller
C- Close Reach
D- Dead Man's Song
E- The Eyes of Darkness
F- Full Dark, No Stars
G- Ghost Road Blues
H- Horns
I- I Hunt Killers
J- Jaws
K- Kin
L- Lockdown
M- Mine
N- No Sanctuary
O- Off Season
P- Pines
Q- Quarry
R- Rosemary's Baby
S- Summer of Night
T- The Town
U- The Unblemished
V- Voyage of the Dead
W- The Wolfen
X- Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My!
Y- The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Z- Zombie

[Justin]

Don't forget to click on the challenge and put in your goal on this one, I see most people have done it for the other two but not this one. Probably because you can't see it on the homepage and have to click on more challenges to get to it. Here is a link though to make it easier https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

[Matt]

Yea i went to do that last night and as soon as I made the shelf for it Goodreads stopped loading for me and i couldn't do anything on it the rest of the night. I got it now though.

[Maxine Marsh]

Justin wrote: "Q
The Quarry
Queen of Blood
Quest for Sex, Truth & Reality

X
I got nothing"

Oh, Queen of Blood, good suggestion. I just realized I have that one already!

[Justin]

You know it is the second in a series though right? We read the first book House of Blood as a group read awhile back so I will probably read this for my q book.

[Maxine Marsh]

Thanks for the heads up. I have House of Blood, too, bought a bunch of Bryan Smith when they were on sale for $0.99.

[Justin]

Yea same here, I already had a bunch but when they all went on sale I bought everything I didn't already have.

[Kate]

I found something that looks passable for X.

http://www.amazon.com/Xoe-Vampires-We...

[Justin]

Looks good.