A Night in the Lonesome October

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I went and dragged the corpse til I couldn’t manage another step. Then I dragged myself home, jaws aching, paws sore, my old injury from the zombie affair was acting up.

E così sai che l'abbiamo noi... no, ubriaco o sobrio, non la mostrerebbe a nessuno prima del tempo." Il tutto mentre cercavo di capire anzitempo quale tra i personaggi appartenesse all'una o all'altra fazione, prima che rivelazioni e sorprese varie mandassero all'aria, inaspettatamente e piacevolmente, tutte le mie teorie e supposizioni. Night in the Lonesome October ( 2001) is a horror novel by the American author Richard Laymon. Released in October 2001, it was one of several books in the author's catalogue published posthumously, following his death in February of the same year. The title is a reference to the Edgar Allan Poe poem " Ulalume".

And he proceeded to tell me the story of how a number of the proper people are attracted to the proper place in the proper year on a night in the lonesome October when the moon shines full on Halloween... Casts No Shadow: Cheeter, thanks to the shadow-pinning rite Owen used to make the squirrel his familiar. This was a buddy read with a merry band of October uber fans. Thoroughly enjoyable, lots of banter and "theories" flying through the ether. Please make sure to have a read of their thoughts also. Shout out to Bill (thanks for the invite amigo), Alisa, Caro, Carol, Dawn, Evgeny, Mimi, Nataliya and Ucho. See y'all next October.*** The story of A NIGHT IN LONESOME OCTOBER is told in a prologue and thirty-one chapters- one for each day in October. I read it in three...sometimes you just can't wait... Nel canto ora potevo sentire un debole "lä! Shub-Niggurath!" ripetuto, come in risposta. Davanti a me, Graymalk sì era alzata in piedi e stava ritta in modo molto rigido.

I read the book in a weekend. The style and the plot drags you in surprisingly well and kept me reading. It’s subtly funny, it’s sad, it’s a fitting homage to those characters I liked, was thrilled by and scared by when I was small. Lonesome has the nostalgic romance of Bradbury mixed with an Pratchett-like intelligence and a Tim Burton-esque love of things that are creepy. If Neil Gaiman wrote it, he would be proud. October 2021 I did indeed open it again 0n the 1st October 2021 and read a chapter each day culminating in today's final conclusion. Would you believe I did not remember how it was going to end? Which was great for my enjoyment of the reread but a bit of worry about my failing memory. About 150 posts as we dissected the book to find all the allusions & sources Zelazny drew from. Wow!

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We summarized the book, one day at a time, discussing the characters, their names & more about the book in the Roger Zelazny group in the spoiler topic. Okay, so that's not really Bubo and that's not really Snuff and that's not really Gray. But that's the best I could do, so there. One of the best parts of A Night in the Lonsesome October is trying to figure out which characters are actually participants in The Game, and which side they are on. We laughed, sat enraptured, and, because this was a very tiny crowd, sitting around him in one of the tiniest meeting rooms in the hotel, we all got to talk with him.

You know. The big fellow the Good Doctor put together from all the parts his assistant dig up for him." This book gets brownie points just for including some of these characters. My heart went aflutter seeing the names Count and Larry Talbot. Being told through the points of view of the animals was just another cherry on top of the fandom-sundae. And the moral of this rererereread is: Bubo is the best fictional rat ever. Because I said so. Just ask Snuff and Graymalk if you don't believe me. The Smurfette Principle: Crazy Jill is the only biological female among the Players. Played with in that Morris is implied to be trans or otherwise genderqueer, although still referred to as "master", not "mistress", by Nightwind.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into. After all, I am not a horror reading type of a gal. However, I believe Horror is the last thing I would associate A Night in Lonesome October with. The first would be smart and second, funny. It is like a Halloween Scavenger Hunt of Classic Characters, all of them counting the days from the First of October to The Night, the Thirty First.

Sinister Minister: Vicar Roberts appears at first to be a fairly normal priest with perhaps a slightly overzealous reaction to the strange new people in the neighborhood. He turns out to be secretly a cult leader, a practicioner of human sacrifice, and all round the nastiest of the book's villains. And the moral of this rererereread is: Snuff's How to Perfect Your Idiot Slobbering Hound Expression 101 Class should be mandatory for all canine companions, methinks. It sure looks like someone's already taken Snuff's upper-level course and graduated summa cum laude. Now if that isn't a winning Idiot Slobbering Expression, I don't know what is! I was amazed. Thrilled. He was one of the small handful of authors that made me realize that all I wanted to be was a writer. Re-reading for the SF/Fantasy monthly & loved it. It's a fast, fun read & has the quality I've come to expect from Zelazny. The story, as one of the character's of the book puts it, is 'a lunatic scavenger hunt' in more ways than one. Who are the people, what are they trying to accomplish - are they good or bad guys? It's also perfect Halloween reading.

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I DREW MORE LINES IN MY HEAD LAST NIGHT and this morning, but before I’d created a satisfactory picture we had a caller Bad People Abuse Animals: Nearly all the Openers are shown being cruel to animals at some point. One attempts to poison Snuff. Another attempts to drown Greymalk in a well. The main villain hunts Needle with a crossbow and tries to get Snuff done in by vivisectionists. This is what I would consider a cozy fantasy book, as the stakes are high - as in the literal fate of the world - but it never really feels that way. It’s obviously not meant to, and that’s what makes it work. This is just a lovely, entertaining, often funny, occasionally moving, spooky, lovely little Halloween story. Every once in a while- when the moon is full on a Halloween night- a group gathers and a game begins...The game of saving the world from evil and destruction- who is on the right side and who is on the wrong one??? I guess you will have to read it to find out...