Halloween Bingo – Card & Books – Update Post

Slight change of plans re the physical sheep and Hastings stickers…

Many thanks to Moonlight Madness, Obsidian Black Plague, and Murder by Death for my lovely card for this year’s Halloween Bingo.

As with previous years, I will update this post as we go along – with Captain Hastings covering squares I have read, and The Gang popping up on squares that have been called.

I am also listing the books I plan to read / have read for each square – with () being planned reads, Italics being books in progress, and bold being books I have read:

Row # 1: 

Cryptozoologist: (The Curse of Loch Ness – Peter Tremayne)
Deadlands: (The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse)
Country House Mystery:   Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers (in progress)
Classic Horror: Gothic Tales – Arthur Conan Doyle (in progress)
Amateur Sleuth: The Expendable Man – Dorothy B. Hughes

Row # 2:

Genre: Horror:
Murder Most Foul:
Terror in a Small Town:
Romantic Suspense:
Modern Noir:  (Ways to Die in Glasgow – Jay Stringer)

Row # 3:

A Grimm Tale: Six Gun Snow White – Catherynne Valente
13: (13 Guests – Jefferson Farjeon)
Free Space:  Get Well Soon – Jennifer Wright
Gothic: (The Last Man – Mary Shelley)
Terrifying women: (Deep Water – Patricia Highsmith…unless it qualifies for the drowning square)

Row # 4:

Modern Masters of Horror: October – Michael Rowe
Ghost Stories: The Canterville Ghost – Oscar Wilde
Darkest London:
Relics and Curiosities:  The Amulet – Michael McDowell
Genre: Suspense:

Row # 5:

Supernatural:
Fear The Drowning Deep: Fatal Passage – Ken McGoogan (in progress)
Cozy Mystery: Five Red Herrings – Dorothy L. Sayers
Diverse Voices:  (The Red Power Murders – Thomas King)
New Release: (Stealth – Hugh Fraser)

Unallocated but in progress: n/a

Wildcards available: 2 (no author nominated as yet)

At this point, I’m trying not to get carried away with assigning books to all the spaces. Let’s see what books feel right at the time, eh?

There is, however, a list of books that I will mine for the squares – all of which are on my kindle already:

The Tokio Zodiac Murders – Soji Shimada
Toplin – Michael McDowell
To Love and Be Wise – Josephine Tey
Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey
Miss Pym Disposes – Josephine Tey
The Singing Sands – Josphine Tey
The Yellow Room – Gaston Leroux
The Last Post – B.K. Duncan
Carpe Jugulum – Terry Pratchett
Elizabeth – Ken Greenhall
Edinburgh Twilight – Carole Lawrence
Nine Coaches Waiting – Mary Stewart
This Rough Magic – Mary Stewart
The Rock – Robert Daws
Before the Fact – Frances Iles
The Loving Spirit – Daphne Du Maurier
Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne Du Maurier
Laurels are Poison – Gladys Mitchell
Above Suspicion – Helen MacInnes

… and of course several Dame Agatha and Dorothy Sayers novels