For
City Lit's Weird & Wonderful
Halloween selection, we read Ira Levin's “Rosemary's Baby”
(1967), noted for its 1968 Polanski film adaptation (and apparently
an upcoming miniseries, as well). Considered a modern horror classic
and a turning point in the genre, creating or at least popularizing a
certain vein of religiously-colored horror, it reads now as a bit
dated in some repsects, suprisingly fresh in others.
Our conversation circled around a few
major points:
- Witches Are Silly (no offense, Actual
Witches)
- “Workmanlike Prose”
- Spookiness & Lack of Spookiness
A good discussion, as always, and
pleased to welcome some new folks to the club as well. Total spoilers
below.
