<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4316"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4493">I have a few suggestions of my own. First is one of my favorites, a short novel from Roger Zelazny entitled Jack of Shadows. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4494"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4493"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4529"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4493">Next, I'd be interested in reading a Jim Butcher novel from his Dresden Files series. Both fine choices to celebrate the most spooky of months, October. I'd also like to include a short story by Neil Gaiman, "October In The Chair". <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4587"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4493"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4588"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497803125752_4493">Mike S. </span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, June 18, 2017 9:11 AM, R. Luoma <malkin8244@pobox.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 23:15:36 -0400<br clear="none">"David G. Grubbs" <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> October is not for spooks, it is for opening portals into alternate<br clear="none">> dimensions, traveling through the multiverse, or worshipping the Great<br clear="none">> Pumpkin.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> So I suggest either The Jennifer Morgue (sequel to The Atrocity Archives),<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Wait, does not any Laundry novel necessarily involve spooks?<div class="yqt5084922012" id="yqtfd97931"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> a recent Michael Moorcock book in the Eternal Champion series (maybe the<br clear="none">> first in the most recent trilogy: A Dreamthief's Daughter),</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Did not Stormbringer drink a lot of souls?<br clear="none">That seems pretty spooky to me.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> or a big collection of Charles Schulz cartoons.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I found the Great Pumpkin rather spooky.<br clear="none">While Snoopy's Red Baron episodes might be considered<br clear="none">slipstream fiction, I am not aware of any science fiction<br clear="none">or fantasy specific strips.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, I will also offer some October suggestions<br clear="none">even though I have not read any of the following --<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Tim Powers _Medusa' Web_<br clear="none"> Nick Mamatas _I Am Providence_<br clear="none"> Alan Moore _Providence_ (cartoon)<br clear="none"> Tim Powers _Hide Me Among the Graves_<br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com<div class="yqt5084922012" id="yqtfd21620"><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>