Horror Aficionados discussion

Welcome to the first ever Horror Aficionados Public Domain Challenge!

How this works: anything goes as long as it’s in the public domain. Short stories, audio, anything! You set a goal of how many titles you want to read during the year then come here and discuss and/or share your review. I think this is going to be a lot of fun and we’ll uncover some hidden gems along the way!

Any genre is eligible for this challenge, it doesn't have to be horror only!

I’m setting my goal at 12. Surely I can manage one a month!

Good luck, Latasha!

I sent mine at 4. This is gonna be fun :)

Thanks Charlene. I think it will be Rachel. I end up reading and listening to a lot public domain stories. The first one I’m going to listen to this year is Wilkie Collin’s Woman in White.

I almost never do, so this will be a good challenge for me!

Ohh, where do you find the audio for that? YouTube?

I have tons of public domain titles on my Kindle that I've been wanting to read. Setting a low goal of 3 since they tend to burn me out if I read too many. I'm not entirely sure which ones I'll read, but I'm thinking Candide will be the first :)

Rachel wrote: "I almost never do, so this will be a good challenge for me!

Ohh, where do you find the audio for that? YouTube?"

Yeah I’d say you can find it on there. I usually listen listen to LibraVox recordings. I find them on iTunes.

Nikki "The Crazie Betty" V. wrote: "I have tons of public domain titles on my Kindle that I've been wanting to read. Setting a low goal of 3 since they tend to burn me out if I read too many. I'm not entirely sure which ones I'll rea..."

Oh yeah, I can understand and see that happening.

I was going to try this one, and realized that I have too many challenges going, but not enough public domain books. alas, I shall fix that. :D

Got a few public domain books, so I'm in for 10.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

this is the version of the woman in white I'll be listening to Rachel.

Also, Kumar and I will be reading The House by the Churchyard starting jan. 15th

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'll set my goal at 4 for the moment.

What does public domain mean? Are they books that can be accessed free of charge? Like I read The Iliad in 2017, I downloaded a free copy to my Kindle.

Silly question! But then again if I don't know the answer then it's not a silly question, haha.

Yep, that’s exactly it. They are usually so old they are now free lol

https://www.teachingcopyright.org/han...

Hope this helps

Brilliant, thanks Latasha. I'm not quite as dim as I thought I was!!

i do binge reading

Am in for 12, but have a lot of challenges going on.

This looks like fun ~ I'm in for 9 books :)

I'll aim for six books, anything less wouldn't be a challenge, but I think anything more would be too hard.

I will be in on this too and I am going to set my challenge to 5 as I have some of these books on my kindle, so been waiting to get around to reading them. Now I don't have an excuse! lol :)

I will try this one... never thought much about Public Domain (I guess because there isn't a proper translation for that in my language ^^), but I was that Amazon.de has got some of them too and as I "stole" my husband's kindle, because he didn't use it anymore, I will give this a try, but starting with just 4 books...

I've been trying to read 1 classic per month for the past 2 years. This year I got 14 read.

Last year I did 22, but many were short.

I'm in. Horror? Yes! Public Domain? Even better. Mark me down for 12, although I hope to read more.

I'll try for 10.

I’ll carve out a spot here too. Let’s see if I can do five.

started The Woman in White today.

EDIT 1/13/18 well, I'm done. I didn't actually finish it and gave it 2 stars. it just kept going & going & going. I couldn't take it anymore. I doubt i'll read anything else by Mr. Collins unless it's a SHORT story.

I'm going through my to read list and picking stuff out for the rest of the year. I really recommend this one. it's a short story.The Voice in the Night. it's so good! but look at this one I found on my list lol
The Blood of the Vampire

English Fairy Tales is my pick for February

Latasha wrote: "I'm going through my to read list and picking stuff out for the rest of the year. I really recommend this one. it's a short story.The Voice in the Night. it's so good! but look at t..."

Thanks for that rec, Latasha! Just read it and loved it. Am now 1/12.

Latasha wrote: "I'm going through my to read list and picking stuff out for the rest of the year. I really recommend this one. it's a short story.The Voice in the Night. it's so good! but look at t..."

Thanks for the suggestion, Latasha - owned and added. Hopefully I will get to it soon!

glad you liked it James and hope u do too Anne.

I am going to set my goal for this one at 12. Should be pretty easy to reach.

Wow. Already read 3/12

The Magician
The Red Badge of Courage
The Dubliners

Woohoo! Your on a roll!

Just started The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I already knew my history education was terrible, but I didn't think I'd need to go to Wikipedia from the first chapter.

Oh dear!! I bet I would have to as well.

Jason, I deleted your comment. It had nothing to do with this thread and it was self promoting. You can promote your blog here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

I started my February public domain read, English Fairy Tales yay!

Latasha wrote: "I started my February public domain read, English Fairy Tales yay!"

Sounds good :)
I read Faust: First Part in January And it's what you would call public domain here in Germany (our term for that isn't quite the same and the law is somewhat different, but it's for free and that's the main point I think).
But I own an actual copy of it so it didn't feel like a public domain read ^^

I just started The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' and it's really good so far.

Do you know this site: http://www.gutenberg.org
(I guess/hope this leads you to the english Version. It looks a bit messy but there are tons of eBooks in different formats.
Also I discovered the App serial reader which is perfect for in between. :)

Yes, I know that site. They have apps as well.

Oh yay! Willam Hope Hodges! Is it good so far?

Latasha wrote: "Yes, I know that site. They have apps as well."

Oh I didn't know that. Thanks for mentioning.

Yes, it is. Really enjoying it. Ships and ghosts and lurking monsters ❤️

That sounds really fun.

Latasha wrote: "I started my February public domain read, English Fairy Tales yay!"

I finished this today. most of these you've heard or some variation of them. but it was fun to revisit the stories. I love fairy tales!

Feli wrote: "Also I discovered the App serial reader which is perfect for in between. :)"

Just checked that out, sounds neat.

I'll play. There are suggestions here I've not come across.
Shinies!

would anyone like to read this short story for this challenge with me? The Messenger