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Maybe making your blood run cold is a good way to combat the heat. Maybe people like to con trast all the brightness of the season with something dark and brooding. Whatever the reason, horror is at its height in the summer months, so here are a few reading suggestions. “Frankenstein,” by Mary Shelley, is a good place to start. The story of the book’s creation is almost as fa mous as the book itself. One night, a newlywed Shelley had a nightmare that soon b^ame the basis for the first true horror novel. It’s a great piece of romantic fiction that has been adapted to more movies than one cares to remember. Speaking of film adaptations, “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker, stands next to anything by Shakespeare in terms of adaptations. At last count, the formidable Count Dracula had been brought to the screen more than 130 times, making him the most adapted literary character ever. Adaptations aside, the book it self stands as a landmark of not only horror but of literature as a whole, with its scrapbook-style narrative built from the journals and letters of its characters. This did for vampires what “Franken stein” did for mad scientists. In 1917, journalist and short-story writer Ambrose Bierce left America for Mexico and was never heard from again. Thus was gone one of the most cynical, scathing writers in Ameri can history, as well as one of its best creators of short horror fiction.. Bierce’s works stand as some of the most technically well done Guest Commentary Ryan Nyburg_ short stories, and his almost ni hilistic world view is one that per meates in horror fiction even today. “The Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce” is a good place for horror fanatics to start with this criminally unknown writer. H.P. Lovecraft made a living pub lishing his bizarre stories in cheap pulp magazines through the 1920s and remained relatively unknown in his lifetime. Now he is widely considered to be the most influen tial horror writer of the century, and his stories have inspired countless other writers. Lovecraft’s stories are occasion ally adapted to film, most famously as 1985’s “Re-Animator.” There are many collections of Lovecraft’s fic tion available, and almost any one of them will do. “Hell House,” by Richard Mathe son, stands as one of the true clas sics of modern horror. Matheson’s stories have always worked at rec onciling classic horror tales — in volving vampires and haunted houses—with more modern view points and scientific explanations. It never worked so well as here, with the granddaddy of all haunted house stories. This was adapted ef fectively to film in 1973 as the moody and atmospheric “The Leg end of Hell House,” which is worth seeing in its own right. Ryan Nyburg is a freelance columnist. His views do not necessarily represent those of the Emerald. Alternative stories educate, entertain For those with a hunger to ex plore other cultures and per spectives from home — or from a homey bookstore like Moth er Kali’s—these semi-altemative picks will whet your reading pallet. “The Com plete Hothead Paisan: Homi cidal Lesbian Terrorist” is a charmingly vi olent comic book series built on the quick-witted political com mentary of au thor Diane DiMassa. Reporter In one of Di Massa’s classic scenes, Hothead is speeding in her car with her cat, Chicken, with one hand on the wheel. She’s leaning out the window, pointing a gun with a huge barrel at another car that isn’t shown. Hothead, with her enormous eyes and manic grin, is saying: “I’m not your fuckin’ spritzhead girlfriend.” “Hothead,” along with a fine array of alternative reading, is available for hard-core fans of radical works or the newly curious at Mother Kali’s Books, a feminist bookstore. Hothead goes berserk after an overdose of television and caffeine and goes on a killing rampage, which climaxes and then plateaus as brief moments of lucidity smooth out her rage. Her cat (a vocal person ality in the series), and her friend, Roz, often inspire Hothead to have calm moments, but the lull never lasts, which keeps fans happy. For those who enjoy cartoon bombs or simply long to shatter the dominant paradigm, this is the perfect read. For those who shudder away from even comic-book mayhem and killing, there is a plethora of other alternative reads at Mother Kali’s. Mother Kali’s includes well stocked sections such as transgen der, women and cancer, lesbian plays, tarot, as well as shelves full of women’s Asian, African Ameri can, Latin and Jewish works. Leslie Feinberg, a transgender icon, has a couple of books in stock, including the classic “Stone Butch Blues,” a Bildungsroman for a strong-willed “tranny” writer. Mother Kali’s Asian section offers the much acclaimed “Tripmaster Monkey” by Maxine Hong Kingston, a literary work set in San Francisco in the 1960s about an Asian man who aims to defy stereotypes by ex ploring his most atypical identities. The protagonist, Whitman Ag Sing, can adopt any one of his “72 personalities” simply by changing his clothes. Sandra Cisneros’ “The House On Mango Street,” another literary de light, explores issues of race, class and gender, and is available in the Latina section at Mother Kali’s. For those whose tastes run to tarot, the feminist bookstore has a wall of books on the subject, in cluding “Tarot of the Spirit,” by Pamela Eakins, Ph.D. Anyone with an appetite for psy chic wanderings, other cultures or lifestyles will probably dig these tasty picks. Contact the reporter at jilliandaiey@dailyemerald.com.
