RECOMENDATIONS FOR HALLOWEEN 2024

 Hello there, today, as we are finally in October, I would like to recomend you a couple of things for next halloween, enjoy the festivity.

THE FACE IN THE GLASS: THE GOTHIC TALES OF MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON)

This first recomendation brings us a collection of tales about gohst and supernatural.

The book will help you spending a good time, but I must say that when I read it (between the end of 2023 and the begining of 2024) my impression about it was that the stories were a bit irregular: there were a few ones that were quite good, but there were others not so good, in the sense that they did not give that sense of horror that you will find in other recopilation of stories of this tipe.

Personally, I recomend you this book, just for that stories that are relatively good

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (2023)

In this second point, we find a film base on a specific chapter of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, specifically the chapter centered in the diary of the ship mentioned in the title, which, acordind to the plot of the novel, tranasports Dracula from his castle in the Carpathians (in Romania) to Whitby (in the United Kingdom)

This film is quite effective, in the sense that all the characters are stuck in a small space with something that begins killing the animals they heve in the ship and then it begins killing all the people travelling with it, plus the atmostphere is quite dark, part of the plot takes place during the night, which makes the situation quite more unconfortable.

I am not sure if I have recomended it, but I want to recomend you that if you haven’t read the book, give Dracula (and the story Dracula’s guest) a chance, you will enjoy deading it,

THE WARLOCK’S HAIRY HEART & THE TALE OF THE THREE BROTHERES (FROM THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD BY J. K. ROWLING)

These recomendations come directly from Harry Potter’s universe, both tales come from the volume The tales of Beedle the Bard, and both of them are quite intresting.

The first one follows a wizard who decides that love is a burden so he locks his heart in a trunk with horrible consecuences.

The second one (the tale of the three brothers) is told on the last book (Harry Potter and the deathly hallows) of the Harry Potter series, and follows three brothers who are able to win death, who, in return, gives them a gigft to each one.

Both tales are quite dark, the first one, as I mentioned before is centered on the consecuences of the decission taken by the wizard and its consecuences (which are really bad), while the second tale, reflects, as the own book mentions, on the problems brought from trying to avoid death.

CORALINE (NEIL GAIMAN)

This last recomendation comes from the imagination of Birtish autor Neil Gaiman, and it follows a child name Coraline who feels lonely, after she moves, with her parents, to a house in which she finds a strange door that goes to a world very similar to the “normal” one and in which, everyone seem happy to have her around.

In the case of this short book, the story is really terrifying mainly because the author plays with a normal family and a weird world, quite similar to Coraline’s house and family and in which she can get whatever she wants, the problema is that nothing is what it seems.

This book has been adapted into a stopmotion film, with the same title, and it also has a parody on a Halloween special from The Simpsons (I think it was titled Coralisa)