The Horror Booktube Tag
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2024
- Join me as I answer The Horror Booktube Tag in celebration of Horror Mayhem!
This tag was created four years ago by Alex @TheBookubus
I saw it in its current reincarnation done by @M-J over on the channel Reading This Life.
Also mentioned: Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue
I tag anyone who never, or almost never, reads horror.
And, of course...I have the reflections confused.... My apologies.
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Hearing you proclaim, "Redrum", will be the highlight of my day 😂❤
Great tag. Horror is subjective and a spectrum as with most things imo.
Ha! Perhaps I will walk into my son’s room next time he visits and wake him up with it!
While I don't think of myself as someone who likes horror, I must say I adore Southern Gothic. My dad was in the Navy and we moved A LOT. I spent many of my school years in Jacksonville, FL and I remember that one of the houses we lived in was surrounded by trees that dripped with Spanish moss. Depending on my mood and the time of day, I might find the sight creepy or romantic. "Everything that Rises Must Converge" was a selection of either The Literary Guild or Book of the Month Club the year it came out. My mother tried the short stories and then gave the book to me. "These stories are just so weird, I'm sure you'll like them." She was right. I also loved McCullers' "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." As I recall Miss Amelia keeps her kidney stones in a jar. And Truman Capote's early work (before he found fame and rich people) featured a woman who uses her delicate gray gloved hand to smash a song bird to smithereens. Fun, eh?
And you certainly should feel just fine reading "Jane Eyre" as many damn times as you want. Don't let anybody tell you anything different. I always enjoy your videos.
Thanks, Stephanie!
Yessss Jane Eyre in every tag! And you make a convincing case. I love all of your answers!
Thanks, A-especially for playing along with my Jane Eyre obsession!
Your expression in the thumbnail made me cackle! I really enjoyed this video! I’m a huge horror fan but not so much in my reading. I love dark themes and gothic literature too. My favorite part about horror is the psychological aspect and in that way I do find it difficult to identify what strictly does and doesn’t fit into the genre.
Thanks, Karla! Borders between genres are always a bit unclear, but horror seems even harder to define, at least to me.
I don't totally understand what horror is either. I've never been drawn to it though.
Me neither-although I am quite curious why so many people are. It has been interesting to see other people’s answers to this tag.
Thank you for doing the tag! (Also, hope you don't mind me saying but you have such a wonderful voice!)
Thank you so much! And thanks for putting this tag together!
Brilliant Hannah❣️ Jane Eyre, High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein, perfect 👍👍👍
Thanks, Jodi!
Great video Hannah. And apparently I'm tagged, been trying to think of anything horror-ish I've read lol. Maybe environmental horror with my nature reads or something
Ooh! Great idea!
If someone asked me I would probably say I don’t really read a lot of horror but actually part of me is definitely drawn to it. I loved Jackson’s Haunting of Hill House and Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes as a teenager. I enjoy Victorian Gothic and I definitely seek out horror short stories. And on a plane trip I will check out the horror movies. What actually defines horror is an interesting topic…it’s such an indeterminate term or genre. Fun video.
I didn’t think about Bradbury, but I loved Someone Wicked back in the day. The idea of seeing a horror film on a plane would throw my sanity completely to the wind, I’m afraid!
Jane Eyre is reasonable if Turn of the Screw is in my opinion! Older gothic certainly just have very ambiguous sense of atmospheric dread as their main "horror" element.
Of course only you could bring new depths to The Shining! What an interesting connection.
That makes me laugh, Becca! “New depths”-ha…
What a surprise subject for your channel. I finished rereading A Good Man Is Hard to Find yesterday for my short story project. It’s share horror elements but I don’t think it qualifies for the genre or maybe it shows just how powerful the genre can be under thanks hands of a first rate author.
Ooh, wonderful! I can't wait to hear what you have to say about it. No, I now understand that horror was not at all what O'Connor had in mind!
I was so surprised to see this tag on your channel and had to press 'play' immediately to see your answers. 🙂Great job! Like your Dad, I love Hitchcock (and High Anxiety!). Which Hitchcock film was his favorite? Mine is Shadow of a Doubt.
I was just talking about this question with my brother! I appreciated how willing he was to watch Dial M for Murder with my mother and me whenever I wanted-but it wasn’t his favorite. I know he really loved The Lady Vanishes, but I am not certain he would have chosen it as his very favorite.
To me, there are three basic types of horror. 1) Gothic horror, in which something horrific comes from the past. It could be a supernatural force or the memory/impact of something horrific that makes people act in a certain way in the present. 2) science fiction horror, in which something horrific comes from "out there" either outer space or another dimension. The horror here is that our human condition is too small to handle this challenge. 3) psychological horror, in which something horrific comes from within a person's mind. This can be a story of someone going insane, who has gone insane, or is about the damage someone who has gone insane can inflict on a community/family.
You can mix and match between these categories, such as a story about a man who is convinced that vampires are real and acts accordingly.
Oooh! This is all brilliant! Thank you!
I always think the disembodied voice on the moors is another gothic aspect of 'Jane Eyre' -cleverly used in Jasper Fforde's 'The Eyre Affair.' which I really enjoyed. I loathe horror films although I remember loving 'An American Werewolf in London' so I suppose I only like it when it's humorous. So maybe I need comedy horror books?
My son absolutely loves The Eyre Affair and his read it almost as many times as I have read Jane Eyre! It is one of his small handful of major comfort reads. I should definitely try American Werewolf! Humor makes all the difference to me.
Totally reasonable case for including Jane Eyre. I have never given fair attention to either McCullers or Poe.
Every McCullers’s novel I’ve read is intriguing-but not up there with my favorites. I think I liked her work more when I was younger, too.
@@HannahsBooks I have only read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and that was a while back.
I hadnt thought of High Anxiety in years but i love Hitchcock so i should watch it soon. As a former folk music scholar, I particularly like "The Lady Vanishes"
My father really loved The Lady Vanishes too-probably because of his own position as a folklorist! I haven’t seen High Anxiety in years. I hope it has aged well…
I love this so much! 🤗 Thanks for doing the tag, Hannah! You did just fine and I loved hearing your answers. My Roman Catholic roots always show with certain horror books. 🤣 Hee hee. I’m excited to hear about the King secret. 🤔
Thank you so much , MJ!
Good one! I just dropped this tag this A.M. 🎉😮🦇 Love your stories 📚 Love the Brontë's, me 😅 I could talk about Hitchcock all day 🎥
I saw yours in my feed and will try to watch it this evening!
Oh Hannah, this was delightful! I knew you were going to say “Young Frankenstein “! It would definitely be on my list as well. I’m in a similar place as I’ve been terrified of horror for a long time, but I have been reading T. Kingfisher this month, at MJ’s recommendation, and I LOVE her novels. I’m on my third one already. I think you would definitely like her novel, What Moves the Dead, as it is a re-telling of Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” I was just tagged by Allen on this tag, and I think I’m going to do it very soon, even with my limited experience in reading horror, beyond 18th and 19th century novels! I loved your responses here, especially your thoughtful discussion of Jane Eyre, The Shining, and your parents’ love of Hitchcock. Just delightful!
PS. I tagged you today on the Sir Isaac Newton tag-another really fun and creative one. 😊
I really must try T Kingfisher’s books. I have loved seeing your responses to them! And thank you for this wonderful comment, too.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Yes-I spotted that and it looks excellent. I will try to get to it soon!
@@HannahsBooks no pressure! I just thought it was a very creative tag and thought you’d enjoy it too.😊
Great topic and though I am not into extreme horror for sure but I have always had an interest inn the gothic and haunted house novels which is a cousin to horror. Jane Eyre a brilliant classic and if you never read Frankenstein by Mary Selly it's a must because it's about so much more than horror and it deals with the divide at the time between the age of enlightenment and the romantic period which Shelly was part of.
I’ve only read Frankenstein a time or two, and it has been a while. I really should read it again. Perhaps for Halloween?
A lovely take on this tag!
Thank you so much! Are you a horror reader at all?
Jane Eyre is definitely creepy.
Yes indeed!
Jane Eyre was one of the first classics I read when I started Booktube. Do Charlotte Bronte's other novels have horror elements in them?
Definitely some gothic in them! I don’t know the other novels nearly as well as Jane Eyre and Villette is getting a long-overdue reread soon.
@@HannahsBooks I've only read Jane Eyre by Charlotte. I've read Wuthering Heights by Emily as well as some of Emily's poetry.
Hannah is doing horror?! Oh, it's okay, she's just using it as an excuse to talk Jane Eyre. AGAIN. Phew. 😉
Hahaha! Absolutely-and a wee bit more about southern lit, too!
I´m so excited for your first Stephen King and I hope it is what I think it is, Hannah. 👻❤
Ooh-if it isn’t, I hope you will let me know what you were thinking about!