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The Haunting Of Hill House
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Shirley Jackson
Darcy J
, October 23, 2014
If you enjoy a really good ghost story as Halloween approaches, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is hard to beat. Probably best known for her eerie short story, "The Lottery", Jackson's haunted house novel is a classic of horror. If you think you know the story from having seen the dreadful 1999 movie, The Haunting, or even the much better 1963 version of the same name, you haven't. Quiet, yet terrifying, Jackson gives the house unearthly life from the first paragraph: "...Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills...and whatever walked there, walked alone." In a story with no gore, lovesick adolescent vampires, or even profanity, Jackson manages to draw you in and then scare the pants off you over and over again. Immerse yourself in Jackson's story and then sleep with the light on if you need to. It will be worth it.
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Indian Creek Chronicles A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
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Pete Fromm
Darcy J
, October 22, 2014
Pete Fromm recently came to the Hawthorne Powell's to discuss his newest novel. However, 20 years earlier he wrote a lyrical nonfiction account of eight months (October - June)spent working for Idaho Fish and Game monitoring two and a half million salmon eggs in stream channels near the Idaho/Montana border. At the age of 20, with romantic notions of being a modern day mountain man, he goes into the wilderness alone. Over the long, freezing winter months he finds ways to survive by nourishing his soul as well as his body. The descriptions of hard manual labor (such as finding, cutting and hauling mountains of firewood to his campsite) are juxtaposed with gorgeous, evocative descriptions of wildlife, botany, meteorological events, encounters with interesting people, and some frightening moments. I recommend that you get the 2003 anniversary special edition which includes a bittersweet afterword that brings Fromm's original story full-circle again. Reading this story may well inspire you to sprint to REI for hiking and camping gear to rediscover nature through Fromm's eyes.
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