Spooky books for october

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Anonymous wrote:Something Wicked This Way Comes!

I just read this for the first time since I was a kid and it was great. Definitely second.

My go to for spooky is short stories, mostly from the late 19th and early 20th century. M.R James's ghost stories are probably the best if you want to start there. The British Library also puts out a series called Tales of the Weird, which is mostly spooky stories: https://shop.bl.uk/collections/british-library-fiction/bl-tales-of-the-weird. I read their Algernon Blackwood collection Roarings from Further Out a couple months ago and it was really good.

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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

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Frankenstein is really good

Aura by Carlos Fuentes.
There’s definitely other Latin American ones….maybe House of Spirits (great book but can’t remember how spooky it is)

The Carlos Zafron series …. Shadow of the Wind and Game of Angels (I liked the first a lot and felt like the second one dragged a little)

Wuthering Heights

Maybe Master and Margarita? Not sure if it’s spooky enough.

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Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney.
It’s about people trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed. It’s not my favorite genre, but I found it intriguing and could not put it down. I really enjoyed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Dracula! I’m reading it now and it’s so creepy.

I reread it recently and it struck me as very YA.

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Not spooky, but it was October when I read The Night Circus and the ambiance was just SO perfect for the season!

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Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories

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I read Salem's Lot twice. Scared me both times!

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Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
Anything by Simone St. James

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More on the horror end of things:

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enrique
This Thing Between Us, Gus Moreno

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I read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson every October. It’s my favorite spooky book.

Classics include The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, and Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White. Rebecca is great, but not scary (in my opinion).

I love short stories by M. R. James (particularly “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”), Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen (“The Demon Lover”), and also the short ghost stories of Henry James. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman is a shivery treat. Honestly, just order an old copy of 65 Great Spine Chillers (edited by Mary Dabney) and you’ll have plenty of spooky, well-written stories.

Newer scary books I’ve enjoyed are How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, and The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James.

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Bump!

Still searching for a good spooky story this October. I love Shirley Jackson but can’t quite find something to hit the spot.

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Anonymous wrote:I read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson every October. It’s my favorite spooky book.

Classics include The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, and Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White. Rebecca is great, but not scary (in my opinion).

I love short stories by M. R. James (particularly “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”), Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen (“The Demon Lover”), and also the short ghost stories of Henry James. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman is a shivery treat. Honestly, just order an old copy of 65 Great Spine Chillers (edited by Mary Dabney) and you’ll have plenty of spooky, well-written stories.

Newer scary books I’ve enjoyed are How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, and The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James.

Ha! I wrote this reply a year ago.

OP, maybe try The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle. The film adaptation is also deliciously eerie.

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Fiend by Alma Katsu - terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb

The Taker Trilogy also by Alma Katsu: True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price.

Night Film by Marisha Pessl On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive, cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova - a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than 30 years.

Katabasis by RF Kuang: two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. I thought it was her best book yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney.
It’s about people trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed. It’s not my favorite genre, but I found it intriguing and could not put it down. I really enjoyed it.

Im done with Alice Feeney books after reading beautiful ugly. Never again.