On My WishList (#17)

   

On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own 'On My Wishlist' post. If you want to know more click here.

The Dead of Winter by Chir Priestley

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(Goodreads)

Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will ...Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. This is a nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley

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Random Thoughts

The cover is pretty cool. Never heard about the author but I like to try books from authors I haven't heard anything about. And I like books that has anything about hauntings. I'm a sucker when it comes to horror. Sure is my fave genre.

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 Bad Girls Don't Die by Kaite Alender

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(Goodreads)

When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks nothing of it. Kasey is a weird kid. Period. Alexis is considered weird, too, by the kids in her high school, by her parents, even by her own Goth friends. Things get weirder, though, when the old house they live in starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in. Kasey is changing, too. Her blue eyes go green and she speaks in old-fashioned language, then forgets chunks of time.
Most disturbing of all is the dangerous new chip on Kasey's shoulder. The formerly gentle, doll-loving child is gone, and the new Kasey is angry. Alexis is the only one who can stop her sister — but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?

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Random Thoughts

Creepy cover and I've heard good things about this book and the sequel. Very promising!

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 I am legend by Richard Matheson

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(Goodreads)

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

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Random Thoughts

Isn't it enough to say it's written by Richard Matheson? Never seen the movie (not a big Will Smith fan) but I do want to read the book! I've been wanting to read it a long time. And it's pretty cool that Matheson's parents were Norwegian immigrants.

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Nighttime is my time by Mary Higgins Clark

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(Goodreads)

"The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'"

Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end.

Adding to Jean's sense of unease is a taunting, anonymous fax she received, referring to her daughter -- a child she had given up for adoption twenty years ago.

At the award dinner, Jean is introduced to Sam Deegan, a detective obsessed by the unsolved murder of a young woman who may hold the key to the identity of the Stonecroft killer. Jean does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked and humiliated him, with Jean as his final victim.

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Random Thoughts

It's been a long time since I've read anything by Mary Higgins Clark. I think I've only read three books by her so far. I've read No place like home, A cry in the night and Where are you now? I really liked No place like home, but I really loved A cry in the night. That was a very creepy read. Loved it. Where are you now was a little bit disappointing but an ok read. But lately I've been thinking it's been a while since I've read a Mary Higgins Clark book. So I hope to get the chance to do it soon someday. I'm very curious about Nighttime is my time. Love the title and the cover looks scary to me.

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Ancient Japanese Ghost Stories by Toyo Hashi

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(Goodreads)

The stories in this volume were first recorded in 1918 by Richard Gordon Smith, who spent twenty years traveling in Japan and collecting vintage folklore related to supernatural events. This edited and updated version of the century-old text preserves a timeless and contemporary theme for a modern audience to explore. Over 50 stories are documented in this rare collection that once again shines a light on Japanese myths and the haunting tales of ghosts in its ancient culture.

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Random Thoughts

After seeing the movie Ringu for the first time I've been obsessed with Asian Horror especially Japanese Horror. Yeah, yeah, we are probably tired of scary girls with long, black hair but what's great about Japanese horror is it's so much more than that. They got always deep stories and gives you a scare that actually makes you think unlike the Hollywood Horror. Some Hollywood Horror is good especially from 80 and the 90s (and earlier). Just tired of all the remakes.

But I do love Japanese anthology as well. Lately I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube watching Ghost stories from Japan episodes, Goosebumps from Japan and similar episodes like that. I just love them! So, I really want to read this book!

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Have you read any of the books?

And what's on your list?