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R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril (#RIP XII)

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RIPXII

Every September 1 through October 31 for the last 11 years Carl from Stainless Steel Droppings has hosted the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge, affectionately known as the R.I.P. Challenge. Carl has been kind enough to entrust the event to Heather and Andi, from now on, and they hope to do him proud.

The purpose of the R.I.P. Challenge is to enjoy books or movies that could be classified as:

Mystery

Suspense
Thriller
Dark Fantasy
Gothic
Horror
Supernatural

There are many different levels of participation so even if you only read one book or see one movie, you can consider yourself a participant.

I plan to do Peril the Second (2 books) and Peril on the Screen (movies or TV shows).  I hope to read more than two books but I’d like to come out of it feeling accomplished so I will stick with this level.

Possible Reads:

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen & Owen King (read along info coming soon!)
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Possible Movies/Shows:

American Horror Story – Season 7 – 9/5
Fear the Walking Dead – Season 3, Part 2 – 9/10
The Walking Dead – Season 8 – 10/22
IT (the movie) – 9/8
The Conjuring (2013)

If this sounds like fun, join us! For all of the details and the sign-up information, check out this post.

Bookish Talk

New King Book Sleeping Beauties to Hit Shelves 9/26

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Sleeping Beauties

Guess what? King and his son Owen collaborated on a horror novel and it’s scheduled to hit shelves 9/26!! I am so freakin’ excited!! The true cover hasn’t been revealed yet but it’s going to be over 700 pages so you know what that means…

READ ALONG!!

Here’s what we know from SyFy Wire:

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place … The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain?

Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.

Doesn’t it sound good? You can read the full article here.

So, mark your calendars for September 26th because I’m almost certain I’ll start a read-along for this one.