Todos os livros que chegaram cá a casa recentemente ❤️
📚 Livros mencionados!
- The Omen de David Seltzer
- The Bad Seed de Wil
- The Psycho de Robert Bloch
- The Virago Book of Ghost Stories
- The Oxford Book of Ghotic Tales
- Drood de Dan Simmons
- Den of Wolves de Juliet Marillier
- The Virago Book of Fairy Tales de Angela Carter
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life de Ruth Franklin

Banda Desenhada emprestada pela Olga ❤️
- As Incríveis Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e PizzaBoy de Filipe Melo, Juan Cavia, Santiago Villa
- As Extraordinárias Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy II: Apocalipse de Filipe Melo, Juan Cavia, Santiago Villa
- As Fantásticas Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy III: Requiem de Filipe Melo, Juan Cavia, Santiago Villa
- Os Vampiros de Filipe Melo, Juan Cavia

Estamos no mês de Outubro e que mês melhor para falar dos livros de horror ou potencialmente assustadores que tenho nas minhas estantes!! Já leram alguns destes livros? Por onde me recomendam começar?

We are in October, and what better month to briefly talk about horror books that I have in my shelves! (video is only in Portuguese, but in the list you will find many books in English. If you read any of them let me know, or maybe you can recommend one to start with!)



📚 Livros mencionados \ Books:

(primeira prateleira)
. The Witches of Eastwick de John Updike
. O Historiador
. Dracula do Bram Stocker
. Let the Right one in (irei ler durante este mês/ I will be reading it this month)
. Erzsébet Báthory a condessa sanguinária
. Histórias de Vampiros (lido/read)
. O Hóspede do Drácula do Bran Stocker
. Vampire Stories (lido/read)

(segunda prateleira)
. Contos Góticos de Mary Shelley (lido/read)
. Frankenstein de Mary Shelley (lido/read)
. Matilda de Mary Shelley (lido/read)
. O Retrato de Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde (lido/read)
. O Fantasma dos Canterville de Oscar Wilde (lido/read)
. The Ghost of Rosewood (lido/read)
. Dos cornudos: suas espécies e tipos
. Dicionário Infernal
. O Clube dos Suicidas do R. L. Stevenson
. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson
. Mary Reilly de Valerie Martin
. A Ilha do Doutor Moreau de H. G. Wells
. The Woman in Black de Susan Hill (lido/read)
. I'm the King of the Castle de Susan Hill
. Contos Inomináveis de Robert E. Howard
. O Terror de Arthur Machen
. O Gato Preto de Edgar Allen Poe
. Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym de Edgar Allen Poe
. Histórias Extraordinárias de Edgar Allen Poe
. Todos os contos de Edgar Allen Poe (irei começar a ler durante este mês/ I will start this month)
. Os Ossos do Arco-Íris de David Soares (lido/read)
. O Evangelho do Enforcado de David Soares (lido/read)
. O Homem Corvo de David Soares (lido/read)
. Lisboa Triunfante de David Soares
. A Conspiração dos Antepassados de David Soares
. A voz do Fogo de Alan Moore
. Os Melhroes Contos de H. P. Lovecraft (cinco volumes)

📚 Séries Mencionadas\ Book Series:
. The Vampire Chronicles de Anne Rice
1) Interview with the Vampire (lido/read)
2) The Vampire Lestat
3) The Queen of the Damned
4) The Tale of the Body Thief
5) Memnoch the Devil
6) The Vampire Armand
7) Merrick
8) Blodd and Gold
9) Blackwood Farm
10) Blood Canticle

. New Tales of the Vampires de Anne Rice
1) Pandora
2) Vittorio

. Lives of the Mayfair Witches de Anne Rice
1) The Witching Hour (estou a ler neste momento/ currently reading)
2) Lasher
3) Taltos
4) Merrick
5) Blackwood Farm
6) Blood Canticle

. The Strain trilogy de Guillermo del Toro e Chuck Hogan
1) The Strain (lido/read)
2) The Fall (estou a ler neste momento/ currently reading)
3) The Night Eternal

Este post poderá tornar-se numa nova série aqui para o blog e para o canal. Uma maneira rápida e mais curta de ir partilhando os livros que tenho nas minhas estantes. Pode ser por autores ou por temas. Eu tenho a tendência de quando gosto de um autor de ler e comprar todos os livros. Um desses autores é o Stephen King (e é um dos que estou mais entusiasmada para partilhar!)
Por isso aqui estão as minhas arrumadas prateleiras, cheias de livros de todos os tamanhos e feitios, usados e muitos em segunda mão com os livros escritos por Stephen King. Ainda não li todos, mas os que li têm sidos excelentes. (os que li terão a pontuação com os * de um a cinco, e no vídeo vão aparecer no canto inferior direito a avaliação em estrelas).
Os meus preferidos destas prateleiras são alguns dos livros publicados ainda nos anos 80 com as suas lombadas escuras e quebradas, porque sinto que representam bem o universo dos livros do autor.
Em baixo partilho a lista de livros mencionados e indico os poucos que estão em português.


This might turn into a new series for the blog/YouTube channel. It's a shorter way to start sharing the books I have on my shelves. And they can be by author or theme. I have a tendency to like a certain author and stick with his/her books. One of those authors is Stephen King (and the one, between a few, that I'm more excited to share).
So here are my neat shelves with my uneven, used and second hand Stephen King books. I haven’t read not even half of them, but I all the ones I’ve read were excellent (the ones I read will have a * with the evaluation between one and five, and in the film you can see in the right low corner the evaluations with stars).
My favourites from these shelves are the ones published in the 80’s with their dark and broken spines. I feel that they truly represent Stephen King's books.
Below the I will share the full list of the books mentioned and which ones are in Portuguese.




It
Boleia Arriscada (*****) PT - short-stories
Cell PT
The Green Mile (*****)
Skeleton Crew - short-stories and novelas
Firestarter
Salem's Lot
Cujo
Night Shift - short-stories and novelas
5 - The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower Series)
2 - The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower Series) (****)
3 - The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower Series)
4 - Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower Series)
6 - Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower Series)
8 - The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower Series)
Desperation
Bag of Bones
The Stand
11.22.63
1 - The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower Series) (****)
7 - Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower Series)
Just After Sunset - short-stories and novelas
Full Dark, No Stars - short-stories and novelas
The Bachman Books
A História de Lisey (*****) PT
Misery (*****) PT
Dreamcatcher
Under the Dome
Revival
Duma Key
Four Past Midnight
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Insomnia
Rose Madder
Dolores Claiborne
Different Seasons (*****)
The Dark Half (*****)
Needful Things
Pet Sematary
The Mist (*****)
The Girl who loved Tom Gordon
Danse Macabre
On Writing
Carrie (*****)
Gerald's Game
Tommyknockers
The Shinning (*****)

Estes oito clássicos chegaram nos últimos tempos às minhas prateleiras (o único que é novinho em folha é o Animal Farm/ Triunfo dos Porcos do George Orwell, os outros todos são em segunda-mão). São todos em inglês e da editora Penguin (excepto o Gone with the Wind/ E tudo o vento levou). All of these eight classics are recent ones in my shelf. (but the only one that it's actually a brand new book is the last one, the others are second hand.). Also they are all from Penguin (except Gone with the Wind).

1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Durante o mercado de Natal que fiz contactei com algumas pessoas amigas que gostaram imenso de ler. Eu soube logo que o tinha que ler. Infelizmente esta coisa de compras online não são instantâneas e o livrou demorou algum tempo a chegar e na altura estava a ler outras coisas. Ainda não peguei nele, mas é leitura para breve. Os dois livros seguintes foram adquiridos na mesma altura e com a mesma ideia em mente. During Christmas market that I attend I contacted with some friends that really like this book. I knew at the spot that I had to read it. Unfortunately it took a lot to get to me, and by then I was reading other books. I hadn't the change to pick yet, but will soon. The next two books were also bought at the same time with the same thing in mind.

2. Wuthering Heights (O Monte dos vendavais) by Emily Brontë

3. Gone with the Wind (E tudo o vento levou) by Margaret Mitchell

4. Moby-Dick and the whale... by Herman Melville

Este livro é gigante! Depois de ouvir e ler tantas referências à Moby-Dick achei que estava na altura de ler o original. (Agora só preciso de ganhar coragem para o começar). This book is huge! After reading and seeing so many books and movies with references to Moby-Dick I think it's time to read the real thing. Now I only need to have some courage to start it!

5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Este foi o único livro que comecei! Mas estou a demorar o meu tempo com ele.Todos conhecem ou já ouviram falar do Frankenstein, mas e a história original escrita pela Mary Shelley? Será que as duas coisas são uma só? This is only one that I actual started. But I'm taking my time with it. It's not a fast paced book, so I'm not forcing myself to binge read it. Everybody and their mother have heard about Frankenstein, but what about the original story wrote by Mary Shelley?

6. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (O estranho caso de Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Estas personagens e livro sempre me fascinaram. Está na hora de ler o livro. (Espero continuar a gostar das personagens quando acabar o livro). This book and characters always have fascinated me. It's time to (again) to read the real thing. I hope when I finish it I still love them a lot...

7. Dracula by Bram Stoker

Não é a minha capa favourita, mas não encontrei outras que gostasse (e para livro em segunda mão está quase como novo). Outra história que toda a gente acha que conhece. Já li algumas coisas sobre Dracula e vi os filmes também (gosto particularmente da adaptação cinematográfica de 1992 com os actores Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins e Keanu Reaves). Mas não há nada como ler o original. Not my favourite cover, but there aren't many that I like. For second hand book this one looks almost brand new. Another story that everybody thinks that they know. I've read a few things about Dracula, and I've saw movies too (I particularly like the 1992 movie adaptation with the actors Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reaves), but there's nothing like reading the original.

8. Animal Farm (O Triunfo dos Porcos) by George Orwell

Procurei por este livro durante meses! Os meus pais diziam que tinham um em português, mas está perdido entre as nossas prateleiras (ou então foi emprestado a alguém e perdeu-se). É daqueles livros que oiço falar há imensos anos. Tentei encontrar em segunda mão, mas não consegui. E mesmo dos novos não havia muito por onde escolher. Anda toda a gente a ler este livro? I searched for months for this book. My parents said that they had copy in portuguese, but it's lost somewhere in our shelves (or it was lend to someone and lost track). It's one of those books that I have been heard about for years. I try to find a second hand one, couldn't find. So I grab this one, and even so wasn't that easy to find one. Is everybody reading this book?

Já leram algum destes livros? Que outros clássicos me recomendam? Have you read any of these books? Leave your recommendations for other classics in the comments!

illustration by a outra mafalda | nuts for paper

This year was a year full of readings and new books.
These are some of the books that I've added to my shelves during this year.

From the Drenai Saga by David Gemmell
- Legend
- The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
- The Swords of Night and Day

From Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark-Hunter series
- Dance with the Devil
- The Dream-Hunter
- Acheron
- Styxx

The Strain trilogy by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
- The Strain
- The Fall
- The Night Eternal

From Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Lady of Avalon
- Ancestors of Avalon
- Priestess of Avalon

The Killing trilogy by David Hewson

Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson
- 1st to Die
- 2nd Chance
- 3rd Degree
- 4th of July
- The 5th Horseman
- The 6th Target
- 7th Heaven
- The 8th Confession
- The 9th Judgment
- 1oth Anniversary
- 11th Hour
- 12th of Never
- Unlucky 13

I binged in Stephen King books
- Cujo
- It
- Bag of Bones
- Salem's Lot
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes
- Pet Sematary
- The Dark Half
- Night Shift
- The Shining
- Different Seasons
- The Tommyknockers
- Full Dark, No Stars
- On Writing
- Under the Dome
- Duma Key
- Just After Sunset
- Insomnia
- The Mist
- The Green Mile
- Boleia Arriscada

I also give in to Anne Rice books (specially in The Vampire Chronicles and also the Lives of the Mayfair Witches)
- Blood Canticle: The Vampire Chronicles
- Merrick
- Blackwood Farm:
- Lasher
- The Witching Hour
- Taltos
- The Queen of the Damned
- Interview with the Vampire
- The Vampire Lestat
- Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius
- The Vampire Armand
- Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire
- Memnoch The Devil
- The Tale of the Body Thief

I also got in my hands all the books about Hannibal Lecter written by Thomas Harris
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Red Dragon
- Hannibal
- Hannibal Rising

From Jo Nesbo I started to collect the Harry Hole series.

- The Devil's Star
- The Redbreast
- The Redeemer
- Nemesis
- The Snowman

From Fjällbacka series or Patrik Hedström series by Camilla Läckberg

- The Stonecutter
- The Gallows Bird
- The Hidden Child
- The Ice Princess
- The Preacher

From Tess Gerritsen I went with the Rizzoli & Isles series

- The Surgeon
- The Apprentice
- The Sinner
- Body Double
- Vanish
- Mephisto Club

I collected some classics too:

- Dracula by Bran Stocker
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The goal for 2016 is to read them!