184 - Borrowing from a Scottish ballad, Jackson presents us with a woman’s frantic hunt for her betrothed.

183 - A moment from Munro’s real life? “This is the first time I ever remember taking deep breaths, consciously, for purposes of self-control. I really wanted to murder him.”

182 - The conclusion: “Garry’s blood struggled to escape the tube . . . as a dissolving imitation of Garry struggled to dodge the snake-tongue weapon . . .”

181 - “. . . one of us two . . . one of us is a monster.”

180 - Part 2: “What in the hell do you think I am?” . . . “A monster . . . Now shut up and listen.”

179 - Originally entitled “Who Goes There?”, here’s the classic story that led to two iconic films. Don’t miss the creak of the floorboards!

178 - For your new year: “And overhead . . . lonely and cold and livid, blazed the star of the coming doom.”

177 - His warm holiday memories with a beloved relative will soothe and delight you!

176 - “I could run on and on and never look back, never need to see his face again. Only I can’t.”

175 - “. . . the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring of his father’s being . . . as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity. . .”