Sometimes I Scare Myself
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading for this one, and did you need a lamp on? Describe your actual setup, blanket and snack included.
Three stories, three flavors of fear. Which title pulled you in before you read a word: 'Never Kill the Medium,' 'The Nightmare House,' or 'All Curses Are Final'?
'The Nightmare House' plays on the idea that a home can turn against you. What is one small sound or quirk in your own home that has made your stomach drop, even when you knew it was nothing?
Horror can be strangely comforting. Did any part of reading this feel cozy to you, the way a scary story around a fire does, and what made it feel that way instead of just unsettling?
'Never Kill the Medium' sits in the world of people who claim to speak with the dead. Have you ever had a reading, a Ouija board night, or a fortune told to you? How did you feel walking away from it?
Rose builds dread in very few pages. Was there a moment where you felt your shoulders climb up toward your ears, and did you keep reading or put the book down and go get a snack? No wrong answer here.
'All Curses Are Final' suggests some things cannot be undone. Without giving anything away, did the collection leave you feeling that people get what is coming to them, or that fate is just indifferent? Which of those is more comforting to you personally?
Of the three, which one stayed with you after you closed the book, and what did it stir up in you? Think less about craft and more about what it touched: a worry you carry, a place you lived, a person you miss.