A new game

[usernamenumber]

preraphaelite and I were on the T (returning from the fantastic Arabian Nights at the Central Square Theater, about which I'll hopefully post more soon) when she mentioned a murder mystery novel she'd once seen. It was set at Harvard and called "A Darker Shade of Crimson".

This got us thinking about cheesy titles for college-themed thrillers. It is a game we wish to share with friends.

Favorites so far:

• Go Directly to Yale


• Drug Lords of Columbia


• Death Cornell (that one usually takes a sec to sink in...)


• ...or For Whom Cornell Tolls (can't quite decide which we like better)


• A Banana Slug... to the Head


• Massachusetts Institute of TERROR (almost too easy, but just over the line if you imagine the last word dripping blood on the cover)


• Dartmouth... of Hell


• Cambridge (Over Troubled Waters)


• A Price You Can't Oxford (I rather preferred "river" to "price", but preraph got this one first)


...your turn.

Comments

[beowabbit]

• River of Crimson
• Fairleigh Dangerous University
• Et In Acadia University Ego
• Notre Dame en Blanc (a silent-film ghost story, one of the first films to use double exposure as a special effect)
• North by Northwestern (really, more of a thriller than a horror movie)
• William and Bloody Mary
• I Learned to Decompose at Berklee
• Die with a Tarheel on Your Throat
• University of Killinois
• The Texas A & M Massacre

[ninja-report.livejournal.com]

Killtech?

Or, worse: Prince-dundundun.

[mangosteen]

- The Poison Penn
- The Duke of DEATH.*
- Carnegie Murder University

* Looking at other genres, "The Blue Devil in Miss Jones" has a certain ring to it, too.

[rubicantoto.livejournal.com]

Brigham Young and Kill 'em Dead

[laura47.livejournal.com]

You = awesome

[vortexofchaos.livejournal.com]

I'm actually reading a book entitled Maze in Blue about life (and death) at the University of Michigan. The book is set about four years before I was there, although many of the places are quite familiar. I still bleed maize and blue...

[natbudin.livejournal.com]

UMass Murderer
UNC Chapel Kill
Murder Case Western Reserve

And, the scariest of all: FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

(sorry)

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

A Toss of the 'Deis
Judgment Day
On Crimson Tides
Salem State's Lot
(M)It

Wow, two Stephen King references and I don't even read him.

[marphod.livejournal.com]

Iowa (i owe 'ya) an Eye for an Eye. Hrm, probably too much of a stretch.

Missouri (Misery) State. (Although, that's a semi-canonical pronunciation.)

No place like Annapolis. (Technically, US Naval Academy, but I don't honestly know anyone who went there that calls it that.)

Given the city involved, I'm sure "UMd Baltimore" is scary enough on its own.

John Wayne Gacy State. (Wayne State, Detroit)

The Universe of Holy Toledo. (Ahh, University of Toledo, OH -- Home to the then (1993) only collegiate indoor-water slide.)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Death in the Northwestern Passage

Murder, Veritas

A series of Cornell-related titles:
Murder Is Gorges
Big Red Murder
The Frozen Four