It’s dark. It’s mysterious. It’s creepy. It’s sexy.
It’s got the best cover ever (sometimes Colin is shirtless, sometimes he’s not … just go with it).
When Lucy walks out of a frozen forest, wearing only a silk dress and sandals, she isn’t sure how she got there. But when she sees Colin, she knows for sure that she’s here for him.
Colin has never been captivated by a girl the way he is by Lucy. With each passing day their lives intertwine, and even as Lucy begins to remember more of her life—and her death—neither of them is willing to give up what they have, no matter how impossible it is. And when Colin finds a way to physically be with Lucy, taking himself to the brink of death where his reality and Lucy’s overlap, the joy of being together for those brief stolen moments drowns out everything in the outside world. But some lines weren’t meant to be crossed…
It’s about a girl who haunts a boy, but doesn’t know why. And a boy who loves her.
It’s gorgeous prose, with a punch of an ending that spins the whole tale on its head.
It’s not easy to forget.
It’s also inspired us to talk about Octoberish stuff. Books/movies/stories that haunt you.
Scariest Movie you’ve watched
Beth: I went to a birthday party in the fifth grade where we watched Watcher in the Woods (anyone remember NAREK?) and it remains the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen. Probably because it was the FIRST scary movie I ever saw (plus Bette Davis, dear lord). I never went back to that girl’s house.
Nikki: It’s a tie… my brother made me watch Psych0 in the 9th grade and I was traumatized and enthralled and probably was the impetus to my love affair with everything Alfred Hitchcock now. I still get creeped out when I see hotel showers and birds and that awful violin EEEE EEEE EEE score. * SHUDDER * Now THAT is the sign of a good scare.
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The tie would be with The Lovely Bones. Not your usual scary movie but holy crap is it scary. Between Stanley Tucci’s ultimate pedo-mustache-80s-creeper look to every child from the 80s after school nightmare, EVERYTHING about this film scares me. I won’t tell you how I yelled at the screen and jumped in my then roommates lap for a good part of the film.
Jamie: Not really a movie, but the TV mini-series for Stephen King’s IT. The scary clown of all clowns attacks children?!? And because I was a glutton for punishment (and had a serious crush on Jonathan Brandis (RIP)), I watched every night in my room as my parents thought I was asleep…and later proceeded to cry hysterically. You would too if you thought all the unicorn posters on the wall were moving.
Bekah: I have seen VERY few scary movies because I have an overactive imagination and obviously a cannibal is going to eat me. I think it took me until I was 19 to see my first REALLY scary movie- Red Dragon, the Silence of the Lambs sequel. I saw it in the theaters because I thought I was going to be able to make out with the boy I went with (NOPE. DEATH INSTEAD) and it’s my main reason for hating Voldemort. Well, also because he wants to kill Harry Potter- who is my British soulmate according to the Buzzfeed quiz I just took…
What scared you most as a kid
Beth: I was pretty terrified of my next door neighbor. That butthole was about 10 years older than me, and he would flip his eyelids inside out every time I came outside. I was really happy when we moved.
Nikki: The dark, getting lost or separated from my parents and that PBS documentary about the Titanic, I had nightmares for months. Clearly, this was long before Jack and Rose made the Titanic was more steamy (literally! Gong!), way more sexy and a tad less scary.
Jamie: My parents had a hobo clown painting right near the stairs to the basement that was my brother’s room. I would have to run at full speed by it scared that the eyes were following me (pretty sure they were.)
Bekah: That the boy I liked from 2nd-8th grade would find out. Or that he wouldn’t like when I put on my Sunday Best (a long sleeved jump suit) and Easter Hat on Thanksgiving when I was 10 and sang Mariah Carey to him.
Favorite scary book
Beth: OOOOooooo, tough one. I’m not a big horror genre reader, even though I like it a lot. I’ve only read one Stephen King book (Joyland). So I think I’m gonna go with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. THOSE PICS, man.
Nikki: I think this is obvious: GOOSEBUMPS by RL Stine. You know you and your friends would sneak away to this section of the library and try to scare each other with the story about the dangling hook on the car door.
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Jamie: Since I was a tough kid with something to prove (to myself), two years after my nightly IT related meltdowns, I brought the book to overnight camp for some light summer reading. Clearly my parents did not understand the concept of age appropriate reading material for a 13-year-old.
Bekah: I don’t think I’ve ever read one. Honest .
Any fears as an adult
Beth: Red Dragon (the movie, and by extension Ralph Fiennes) and the dark. Basically I’m afraid that Ralph Fiennes is watching me in the dark. ETA: I HATE ESCALATORS TOO!!!
Nikki: HEIGHTS! Escalators, only going down, not up. That’s a real thing guys, ask most anyone, I’ll find an elevator or hold your arm getting on. I’m also an adult. Also, Nordtrom escalators are the worst, like 4 stories high and all glass. EFF YOU NORDSTROM ESCALATORS!
Jamie: Choking, dying, and my cats eating my body.
Bekah: Being pushed onto the subway tracks. I think about it every morning, and even if the train was no where in sight, I don’t think I could climb up & out in time. Sometimes I think about jumping in, not because I’m suicidal, but because I just think about it so much I almost do it. Should I go to therapy?
Do you believe in ghosts?
Beth: I didn’t as a kid growing up, but I know a lot of people who have legit stories about hauntings, and now I’m not so sure it can’t be real.
Nikki: I also have friends with legit ghost stories, so yea I kinda do believe that’s a real thing. We need to get my friend Kim on here to tell everyone her ghost story of the small green pig faced ghost that appeared in both her apartment and her upstairs neighbors at different times. I CANNOT.
Jamie: Just like agent Mulder, I believe.
Bekah: I think so? I don’t know. Yes? There are unexplainable things that happen FOR SURE… Is it energy? Are ghosts evil? (read that) I have a morbid curiosity with going to a physic or medium to see what they say about me and my life… but I also am not sure I could handle hearing something about someone I love who has passed. You GUYS WHY DID YOU MAKE ME GO LAST? I’m so scared now.
Have you seen a ghost?
Beth: No, but there is a pretty famous ghost in the old theater in downtown Memphis. Once I was sitting in the lobby there with my back against the wall, and I felt cold breath say my name in my ear. NO ONE WAS THERE BUT THE WALL.
Nikki: No, but I’m pretty sure one night during New York Comic Con, someone was standing near my bed and called to me and it was NOT Bekah.
Jamie: You know when there’s a shadow that looks like a person and it turns out to be a coat rack? The number of times it happened in my first apartment out from college was too numerous to just be a coincidence. Friendly spirits (I HOPE) were abound.
Bekah: Nothing stands out. But I have goosebumps reading this post right now and am 97% positive there is something to my left other than a wall….
Whose ghost would you DO were it possible?
Beth: Obviously, Bekah wrote this question. Um … Lord Byron’s.
Nikki: Is this a thing? I have a lot of questions about how this would even work… physically… but I think a good starting point would be: Historical Hotties Tumblr followed by Jimmy Stewart… see I told you I liked Hitchcock films. Bonus Silver Fox action:
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Jamie: Toss up between Heath Ledger and Jonathan Brandis (RIP).
Bekah: James Dean. But only it’s because he’s the kind of lover Rob Pattinson is in my head. And in reality we all know that Rob Pattinson does sex like he runs: like a palsy chicken. Pass me the Chloroseptic #INSIDEJOKESFORDAYS
FMK: Jacob Marley, Hamlet’s Dad, Nearly Headless Nick
Beth: Eff Hamlet’s Dad because hate effing!!!, Marry Nearly Headless Nick because he’s humorous, Kill Jacob Marley because he is an old potato.
Nikki: Eff Nearly Headless Nick cause you’ve see the cover of Sublime, right? COME ON! Marry Jacob Marley cause clearly he knows how to have a good times from the grave and will haunt anyone you ask him to. Kill Hamlet’s Dad cause that’s pretty messed up.
Jamie: Kill Jacob Marley because he was a greedy SOB, marry Hamlet’s Dad and eff Nearly headless Nick. Bendy is good, right?
Bekah: Well, I thought at first one of the options was “Jacob’s Dad” and I of course got him mistaken with Harry Clearwater (E.G.B.T.T.) but now that I’m all confused…. Kill Jacob Marley because Jim Carrey is gross, Eff Hamlet’s Dad because he was a king and probably packing, Marry Nearly Headless Nick because you wouldn’t have to hear him talk about sports & complain when you ask him to do the dishes.
You guys … answer our spooky questions in the comments and tell us when you’re planning to read Sublime!
