R.I.P. IV Challenge

Woohoo! It's time for Carl's R.I.P. IV Challenge. For all you who haven't heard of Carl over at Stainless Steel Droppings, go check him out. You can also check out what I read last year for the R.I.P. III Challenge. It was a blast.

Here's what Carl says:

Readers Imbibing Peril, that is what it is all about. I hope you’ll consider joining us on this more eerie road less traveled.

Walk this way.

Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Dark Fantasy.
Gothic.
Horror.
Supernatural.

The desire for the thrill that comes with this kind of reading drifts in on the autumn winds. You breathe it in and it takes hold of you, tempting you to late nights, book-in-hand, turning pages and starting at every unknown noise. Something wicked this way comes…

I'm choosing Peril the First: Read Four books from any sub-genre of scary stories that you choose.

Since I'm on a self-imposed no buying no borrowing kick (to make some room on my shelves), I'm only reading books that I own but haven't read. Here's my list:

The Meaning of Night: A Confession - Michael Cox

Drood - Dan Simmons

The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens (Finished October 20, 2009)

The Monsters of Florence - Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi

The Black Tower - Louis Bayard

The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl (Finished October 04, 2009)

Dark Star - Alan Furst (Finished September 05, 2009)

Bridge of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Voyage of the Narwhal - Andrea Barrett

Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg

The Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff

**Found two more:

The Harrowing - Alexandra Sokoloff (Finished September 01, 2009)

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
**Borrowed from Library
The Strain - Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan (Finished October 21, 2009)
Real Murders - Charlaine Harris (Finished October 26, 2009)

You can see what everyone else is reading over at The Review Site.