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The Tenant | Roland Topor, Francis K. Price

An unsettling book about the worst kinds of ghosts -- those who take up residence in your mind through outside suggestion. A magnificent film also by Roman Polanski.
#SavvySettings #hauntedhouse @eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Well done 😳 3y

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kamoorephoto

The Tenant | Roland Topor, Francis K. Price

I‘m a big fan of both ‘Repulsion‘ (1965) and definitely ‘Rosemary‘s Baby‘ (1968), but I had still not seen Roman Polanski‘s ‘The Tenant‘. This film is part of a loose trilogy he made about the ‘horrors‘ faced by apartment and city dwellers. This one has Polanski in the lead role, stars Isabelle Adjani, and has a feeling of paranoia that is stifling.
It‘s been hard to shake this one since seeing it.
+6 points #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon

Clwojick

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Billypar

The Tenant | Roland Topor, Francis K. Price

#7covers7days #covercrush Day3
@merelybookish
@Kimberlone feel like playing? Post 7 covers over 7 days, no explanation needed, and tag a new person every day.

Leftcoastzen Pretty cool 5y

batsy Wow, that's a cover! 5y

Cathythoughts Wow 😮👍🏻 5y

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Billypar @Leftcoastzen @batsy @Cathythoughts I think this is the most disturbing cover in my collection. I can't even say exactly why it unnerves me- I guess it speaks for itself 🤷 5y

Cathythoughts If definitely speaks for itself 5y

merelybookish Creepy! 5y

Kimberlone @Billypar thanks for the tag, I was expecting someone would tag me for this before long! I will post when I get home from work tonight :) 5y

Kimberlone Also, great cover! 5y

Billypar @Kimberlone Yeah it's really taken over Litsy 😃 I like it- interesting to see the great variety of favorite covers. 5y

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Bertha_Mason

The Tenant | Roland Topor, Francis K. Price

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Bertha_Mason

The Tenant | Roland Topor, Francis K. Price

"He was perfectly conscious of the absurdity of his behavior, but he was incapable of changing it. This absurdity was an essential part of him. It was probably the most basic element of his personality."
Mood.

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Billypar

The Tenant | Roland Topor, Francis K. Price

We're used to seeing haunted houses drive people crazy, but why not haunted apartments? There's no direct supernatural stuff in this one, and plenty of reasons to doubt the sanity of the protagonist but he believes the apartment to be the source of the strange goings-on. And believe me when I say they are strange! I saw Polanski film first, which was very weird, but wonderful if you're into that. #Youdrivemecrazy #90sinJuly @Robothugs @Cinfhen

batsy Perked up when you said Polanski film! Both the book and movie sound great/strange. 7y

Robothugs I must add this to my TBR! 7y

Cinfhen Cool 😎 I always appreciate your thoughtful choices 👍🏻 7y

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saresmoore Welp, this sounds like a good way to get some more mileage out of my tinfoil hat. 7y

Billypar @Cinfhen Thanks! 😳 @saresmoore Yes, but you should have been some more distance from HOL first. Reading The Tenant, HOL, and Borges within a certain time span will make you graduate from tinfoil hat to straitjacket. 7y

saresmoore Hahaha! Why am I hearing that as a challenge? 🙃 7y

Billypar @saresmoore You've been warned! I won't be held responsible for 😵😲😵😲 7y

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