Thursday, October 12, 2023

Halloween Re-Runs: Scare Me!

It's Halloween month, so what books and/or stories do you recommend to scare me and get me in the mood for being afraid or creeped out?

Oooh. There are so many good ones that I like to go back to from time to time. Let's see...

Books:

  • Cujo (Stephen King)
  • Pet Semetary (Stephen King)
  • The Shining (Stephen King)
  • Zombiesque (various, featuring my own tale "Posthumous")
  • The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
  • I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
  • Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin)
  • The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

Stories

  • "The Empty House" (Algernon Blackwood)
  • "N." (Stephen King)
  • "The Lottery" (Shirley Jackson)
  • "Herbert West -- Reanimator" (H.P. Lovecraft)
  • "A Shadow Over Innsmouth" (H.P. Lovecraft)
  • "The Veldt" (Ray Bradbury)
  • "The Man Who Loved Flowers" (Stephen King)
  • "20th Century Ghost" (Joe Hill)
  • "Young Goodman Brown" (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • "Rappucini's Daughter" (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • "Ligeia" (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • "Berenice" (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • "The Mask" (Robert W. Chambers)
  • "The Upper Berth" (F. Marion Crawford)
  • "Man-Size in Marble" (Edith Nesbit)
  • "Silk" (Kimberly Richardson)
  • "Pickfords Well" (Robert Freese)
  • "A Warning to the Curious" (M.R. James)
  • "Present at a Hanging" (Ambrose Bierce)

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