 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to 31 Days of Halloween. This month and this month only, I am bringing back Top 5 Fridays, so today we are here to talk about my top five favorite classic horror literatures. I want to say books, I want to say stories, but some of these are novels, some of these are short stories, so whatever, we're just going to go with it. So at number five I have The Exorcist by William Blatty, I believe is the author's name. It was one of those books that finally lived up to the, you know, the classic film kind of thing. I think it's one of the first times and I know this is going to sound terrible and completely antithetical to all things bookwormish, but it was one of the first times where the book lived up to the movie for me. I remember watching it very, very young and it terrified the crap out of me. I read the book later on in life. I was a bigger watcher of television and video game, playing video games and you know the occasional book here and there until my later teens and then I just read with Wild Abandon. The Exorcist is the first book that truly unsettled me to the point where I didn't know if I wanted to pick it back up again and I read it. I believe it was either late teens or my early 20s when I finally did read it and it lived up to all my expectations. So next on the list we have Psycho by Robert Block. This is another one of those ones where I saw the movie, loved the movie, came across the book, decided to read it and there was just enough different in the book like the main character Bates is a fat dude in the book, but in the only adaptation there is, of course we have Anthony Perkins in the titular role. Norman Bates, I was trying to remember his first name. Anyways, that was another one that lived up for me. I loved the bait and switch. This was my favorite part of the movie. I enjoyed it in the book and I'm wondering how much of a bait and switch it was back in the day. I do like chubby, ugly Norman Bates more than I like Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, but what are you going to do? So that's my number four. I should say these aren't really in any order. I'm just going through these and talking about them because I don't think I would put these last three anywhere. I think I'd put them all together in the same lumped up number one spot or whatever. So next up we have Frankenstein, which I've already reviewed this week. The book was a lot of fun and I loved the character development for Victor. I loved all the, this sounds terrible, but I loved all the horrible things that happened to him. I loved the creature most of all. Everything that the creature went through, just following, just wanting to be accepted, just wanting a mate. I don't know. There's a lot of things with that one that I feel might not have been ahead of their time. I'm pretty sure they are or else it wouldn't be such a big deal in the literature. But I do, I don't like the movie at all. I went back and I watched the movie and I much, much prefer the book over it, especially since in the movie there's a castle. There's no castle in this one. It's just more down to earth and less spectacular and fantastic than, you know, the movie is more geared toward the horror crowd, where this is horror, most definitely horror. I'm not saying it's horror. I'm not saying it's not horror. I am saying it's horror. It's, it's one of those stories that goes beyond any genre. And I like, I dig that quite a bit. The message behind it, playing God, all that stuff. I really dig that. Speaking of messages, next one on the list is Dr. Jekyll, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. I dug the hell out of the message here. The, and I've already reviewed it on the channel this week. It should be yesterday's video actually. But the message of the duality of man, how we all have a good person and a bad person inside of us. And it all depends on what triggers those things. Sometimes you don't have, there doesn't have to be a trigger. It just happens and you split or, you know, whatever, however you want to look at it. I also find it very cool that, you know, we are not everything that people see. I think that's a good message also. You are not who you are to other people. You're not even really who you are to yourself. So anyways, but that's a, that's a discussion for a whole other video. I really liked that story. The last one, and probably it is number one. And it's, it's one of the, one of the coolest concepts. And I can only imagine how mind-blowing it was when it was first written. And that is the yellow wallpaper. That's the short story. It doesn't overstay its welcome. It's very, it's open-ended, but it's not. You're watching this woman's decline over time. And is it madness? Is it a haunting? Is it, I love stories like that, no matter what the outcome. And I think the author nailed it with that one. But those are my top five. Here at the end, I'm going to admit like it did in my review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I have not read a whole heck of a lot of classic horror literature because I don't like the style in which it's written. But I am going to go back for next year. For Classics Weeks next year, I'm going to be reading The Monk by Matthew Lewis. I'm going to be reading The Mysteries of Adolfo by Ann Radcliffe. That book's considered the first horror novel or the first novel with supernatural terrors or whatever it is. I'm going to be reading, let's see here, the Castle of Autronto. Autronto, I'm not sure. But anyways, I'm going to be reading several classics. If you want to give me your favorites down there in the doobly-doo, if I haven't read them, I'll try to get to them. Or I will, I need two more spots is what I need. I had the first three already figured out. I'm going to spend the next year, you know, reading over them. Because especially, I think The Mysteries of Adolfo is like a thousand pages long. I don't know. The Woman in White is another option by Wilkie Collins. I don't know. The Woman in White is one of them. But if you have other suggestions, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. But that's it. If you've read any of these, if any of these are your favorites, if you want to tell me a list of your own favorite classic horror novels, please do so down there in the doobly-doo, because I'm always learning. I like to keep it, keep it fresh, even if I have to go back to the old times to keep it fresh. But until next time, I have an E, you've been you. This has been another episode of 31 Days of Halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!