Other Weirdos! Woo! (An Introduction to the Classics Club Challenge)

Trolling about for discussions on books--as usual-- I followed a link to another link to another link and wound up here-- The Classics Club. They have a little challenge where you read a list of classic books-- a list of your own making-- within a certain amount of time and blog about them. And they are un-fusty about what constitutes a classic. (I had to make sure of this before I decided to join, since most of the books I like to read tend not to land on the official classics lists.) Their whole purpose is to get discussions going about classic books and my whole purpose is to get discussions going about horrid books and mysteries. Wee!!

In order to join I must put a list of at least 50 books I intend to read here and give a date to have them finished by. I'm going to go with 3 years. It gives me a lot of room and I can always add more books. Here is my list. I make no promises that this is the order I will read things in.

Northanger Horrid Novel Collection

1.      Castle of Wolfenback- Eliza Parsons

2.      The Necromancer- Ludwig Flammenberg

3.      Horrid Mysteries- Marquis de Grosse

4.      The Mysterious Warning- Eliza Parsons

5.      The Italian- Ann Radcliffe

6.      The Midnight Bell- Francis Lathom

7.      Clermont, A Tale- Regina Maria Roche

8.      Orphan of the Rhine- Eleanor Sleath

More Gothic-ish Sorts

9.      Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux

10.  The Monk, A Romance- Matthew Lewis

11.  The Phantom Ship- Frederick Marryat

12.  The King in Yellow- Robert Chambers

13.  The Lancashire Witches, A Romance of Pendle Forest- William Harrison Ainsworth

14.  Catherine: A Story- William Makepeace Thackeray

15.  The Cloister and the Hearth- Charles Reade

16.  The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole

17.  Lady Audley’s Secret- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

18.  East Lynne- Ellen Wood

19.  Moonstone- Wilkie Collins

20.  The Haunted Hotel-Wilkie Collins

21.  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- Anne Brontë

22.  Black Oxen- Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

23.  The Wind In the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

24.  A New England Nun and Other Stories- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

25.  Melmoth the Wanderer- Charles Maturin

26.  Dracula- Bram Stoker

27.  Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman- Mary Wollstonecraft

28.  Vathek- William Beckford

29.  House of the Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne

30.  The Parasite- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

UPDATE!!
Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood- Thomas Preskett Prest
Wagner the Wehr-Wolf- George W.M. Reynolds
Mysteries of London- George W.M. Reynolds

Mysteries

31.  The Woman In Black- E.C. Bentley

32.  Mystery of Cloomber- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

33.  The Man in Lower Ten- Mary Roberts Rinehart

34.  The Circular Staircase- Mary Roberts Rinehart

35.  The Bat- Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart

36.  Lady Molly of Scotland Yard- Baroness Orczy

37.  The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective- C.L. Pirkis

38.  The Avalanche: A Mystery- Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

39.  Monsieur Lecoq- Émile Gaboriau

40.  Dead Man’s Money- J.S. Fletcher

41.  The Paradise Mystery- J.S. Fletcher

42.  The Man Who Knew Too Much- G.K. Chesterton

43.  The Innocence of Father Brown- G.K. Chesterton

44.  The Red Thumb Mark- R. Austin Freeman

45.  The Mystery of 31 New Inn- R. Austin Freeman

46.  John Thorndyke’s Cases- R. Austin Freeman

47.  The Leavenworth Case- Anna Katharine Green

48.  That Affair Next Door- Anna Katharine Green

49.  The Circular Study- Anna Katharine Green

50.  Mystery of the Hasty Arrow- Anna Katharine Green