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message 1: by Dan (new)

Dan | 1571 comments What weird literary work shall we read for November? Please feel free to make up to two weird literature nominations. I'll run the poll mid-October.


message 2: by Zina (new)

Zina (dr_zina) | 296 comments Maybe go back and get some of those that got scored second on prior polls?


message 3: by Dan (new)

Dan | 1571 comments That's an idea.


message 4: by Zina (new)

Zina (dr_zina) | 296 comments So I scanned through the polls. This book was nominated twice, both times won more voices than the winning entry of some other month but not enough for it to win (4 and 5 in the Jan and Feb 2020 read polls respectively)
The Prisoner Of Carcosa & More Tales Of The Bizarre

Or look at this one: it was tied for the read of the month, then got beat out by one voice difference in the run-off
The House on the Borderland


message 5: by Dan (last edited Sep 18, 2022 01:09PM) (new)

Dan | 1571 comments Borderland was the group book for February 2020, the last book we read efore the pandemic started:
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If a book is on the group bookshelf, we have had a group discussion about it, probably because it was a group book of the month. If a book is not there, we have not read or discussed it yet as a group. I have made our bookshelf be a handy tool that way.

I like your idea Zina. On October 15, I will include in November's poll every book that was in a poll this year or last year that finished in second place. That should be at least half a dozen books. I will also add any nominations members care to make between now and then. For me, so many of those second place finishers would make excellent choices that I doubt I will make any nominations. Then again, I may come across something that just screams to be nominated. So, I leave the possibility open.


message 6: by Cordelia (new)

Cordelia (anne21) | 5 comments I would like to nominate Mordew by Alex Pheby


message 7: by Dan (new)

Dan | 1571 comments That's an interesting looking novel I've never heard of Cordelia. I'm happy to include it in the next poll.


message 8: by Dan (new)

Dan | 1571 comments I'm going to nominate How the West Was Weird edited by Russ Anderson Jr.. It has a story by Joshua Reynolds whose Dracula Lives! (which is pulp, not weird) I am currently enjoying. Western weird is a sub-genre of our genre that I don't think we have yet dabbled in.


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