KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 My 18 year old is wanting something like that but she has read all of him. She has also read the classics like Frankenstein, Dracula, Rebecca, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Bell Jar, The Yellow Wallpaper. She is wanting something that is a bit of a supernatural mystery/drama/who done it. I am drawing a blank on anymore obvious choices. Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) Wilkie Collins? Jane Eyre, maybe? The Mysteries of Udolpho? I haven't read Lovecraft, but that's another possibility. Or maybe Elizabeth Kostova? Edited December 6, 2011 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 sherlock holmes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) Did she like Rebecca? If so, then Jamaica inn is even more of a Mystery, also by Daphne du Maurier. The Historian is very meaty and references Dracula a lot. Really good read. Lorna Doone If she likes mystery you might start her on Agatha Christie, the Miss. Marple series. How old is she? The witching hour by Anne Rice is really good. ETA: just saw she is 18, have her try the witching hour, she will probably love that. Nicole Edited December 6, 2011 by Northwest_Mama didn't read properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) sherlock holmes? She has read Holmes and Christie and isn't really interested in modern writers like King, McGammon, Carpenter or Cook. Edited December 6, 2011 by KidsHappen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 What about contemporary Scandinavian and Japanese mystery type novels? But also A.S. Byatt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Neil Gaiman? Some are children's books (Coraline, The Graveyard Book), but one of our 30-something dad friends talks Gaiman with my 10 yo. He's quite a fan. (the 10 year old is only a limited fan ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 How about Hitchcock? I think she would like him. What is a good collection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Did she like Rebecca? If so, then Jamaica inn is even more of a Mystery, also by Daphne du Maurier. The Historian is very meaty and references Dracula a lot. Really good read. Lorna Doone If she likes mystery you might start her on Agatha Christie, the Miss. Marple series. How old is she? The witching hour by Anne Rice is really good. ETA: just saw she is 18, have her try the witching hour, she will probably love that. Nicole She liked the Twilight series, mostly for the story, but she is generally up for more demanding material. I will check the ones that you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Sheridan Le Fanu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_Le_Fanu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Wilkie Collins? Jane Eyre, maybe? The Mysteries of Udolpho? I haven't read Lovecraft, but that's another possibility. Or maybe Elizabeth Kostova? Jane Eyrs sounds good and I don't think she has read that. Checking out the others now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangermom Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 The stories of M. R. James! Creepy stories, usually involving ancient manuscripts or artifacts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 The Green Mile might appeal. It's very sad. Does she like light fiction? She might like Garden Spells, or other books by that author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I recommend Neil Gaiman, really good stuff. Personally, Rebecca is the only book I really like by du Maurier. Has she read Frankenstein? Seems like it would be up her alley. How about Jules Verne? Jekyll and Hyde? Dracula? Faust? Edwin Drood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 She liked the Twilight series, mostly for the story, but she is generally up for more demanding material. I will check the ones that you mentioned. I liked Twilight too, the author is a good story teller, but it is a fluffy TV book. (TV books are ones that take as much effort to read as to watch on TV:lol:) Anne Rice is the one who wrote Interview with a Vampire. The books are much better than the movie, and only the first one is from Louis (Brad Pitts) point of Narration. The vampire Lestat is the next one, and much better, but from then on it is from Lestat's point of view. The Witching Series is a different series, and if she likes them it is worth reading The vampire Lestat later just for back ground. The original Trilogy stands alone. The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos. It is a heavy historical book. It starts out in the 1500's in Scotland and through one femal in the family moves around the world to modern day America. The Historian is another tale of intrigue that is very hefty. It moves through America and Europe. Both of them are books that I can't sit down and read in one night (like the twilight books) Have fun:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Drood by Dan Simmons Amazon description: On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Anne Rice is the one who wrote Interview with a Vampire. The books are much better than the movie, and only the first one is from Louis (Brad Pitts) point of Narration. The vampire Lestat is the next one, and much better, but from then on it is from Lestat's point of view. Not all of them are from Lestat's POV. Armand and Marius have their own POV books, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onceuponatime Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 My 18 year old is wanting something like that but she has read all of him. She has also read the classics like Frankenstein, Dracula, Rebecca, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Bell Jar, The Yellow Wallpaper. She is wanting something that is a bit of a supernatural mystery/drama/who done it. I am drawing a blank on anymore obvious choices. Any recommendations? I tend to read books like those. I also liked: Jonathon Strange and Dr. Morell The Historian The House on the Strand The City of Dreaming Books The Dante Club The Poe Shadow The Last Dickens Books by Margery Allingham Books by Connie Willis -Especially Lincoln's Dreams or Passage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Chiming in to add my vote for The Historian too. Loved it. Some others she may like.... World War Z (even though it's contemporary, she may enjoy the style of writing) The Graveyard Book perhaps the Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I tend to read books like those. I also liked: Jonathon Strange and Dr. Morell The Historian The House on the Strand The City of Dreaming Books The Dante Club The Poe Shadow The Last Dickens Books by Margery Allingham Books by Connie Willis -Especially Lincoln's Dreams or Passage Another Poe lover! I've read the bolded ones above (and now am going to hunt down the rest). I just finished the "Mistress of the Art of Death" series by Ariana Franklin. I have LOVED it. The sad thing is that there are only four books in the series and will never be more because the author died, but those four are so good I recommend them, anyway. They're historical fiction but beautifully written IMHO. Let's see... I also have "The Hangman's Daughter," which is kinda like that. I personally think the translation could use some extra work, but that may be because I know just enough German to hear bits of the book in my head in the original language. It's still a good book. I've also enjoyed the book series by Ruth Downie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didadeewiththree Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I am taking American Literature before 1865 in college and we are reading from a collection of short stories by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Nathanial Hawthorne's The Birth Mark, etc. Here is the set I have below, but I also have both Volume A and VB as well. These are a great collection and this is college level reading. http://compare.ebay.com/like/190595191511?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Not all of them are from Lestat's POV. Armand and Marius have their own POV books, for example. That is true, but I could not manage to read those. I got through Memnoch, and I tried the Armand, Marius, Vittorio etc... but I just couldn't read them. I started again with (not sure of the order) Merrick, blood and gold, Blackwood farm, blood canticle. Where Lestat and the witches meet up. I LOVED those. Mrs. Mungo, are you an Anne Rice fan too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 That is true, but I could not manage to read those. I got through Memnoch, and I tried the Armand, Marius, Vittorio etc... but I just couldn't read them. I started again with (not sure of the order) Merrick, blood and gold, Blackwood farm, blood canticle. Where Lestat and the witches meet up. I LOVED those. Mrs. Mungo, are you an Anne Rice fan too? It is more that I am OCD when it comes to finishing a series of books, LOL. I liked some of the books more than others. Some are good, some are only fair. But, there are very few series that I start and don't finish. I have only read her vampire books. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a good psychological thriller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a good psychological thriller. Oh, good one. Daisy Miller (also by James) is often thought of as a sort of vampire story, without actual vampires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a good psychological thriller. Yeah, she has read this. That's why it was a bit of a challange to find something for her. She is fairly well read so I really need to branch out a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I would recommend Wilkie Collins also. Start with The Woman in White or The Moonstone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Ok, no more recommendations. I now have it narrowed to five books that I can't decide between and I was really only looking for one. Maybe I can find these in a collection like the Barnes & Noble, Dover or Penquin collections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Wait, wait; don't stop now. I want to play. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Ray Bradbury's short stories remind me a lot of Poe's; he even does a send up of Poe in one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphin Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 ok, but what are the 5 you are considering? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 Wait, wait; don't stop now. I want to play. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Regards, Kareni Oh, she has read that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 ok, but what are the 5 you are considering? :D The Mysteries of Udolpho Northanger Abbey Jane Eyre The Historian Drood I figure that I could read a few of those myself, you know in my spare time if I could get her to part with a book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maus Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Ray Bradbury's short stories remind me a lot of Poe's; he even does a send up of Poe in one of them.Ray Bradbury popped into my mind, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyMama Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 My daughter really liked Louisa May Alcott Unmasked. It's a collection of thriller short stories. It's not at all what you'd expect from the author of Little Women. Also Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery is a fun read, especially if she ever liked Anne of Green Gables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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