#Spooktober- A (rebooted)Halloween Readathon!

‘So what’s this all about?’ I hear someone cry from the back!

WELL….it is last year’s #Spooktober, back and with added books, for another attempt to fill in my reading list of classic frights.

Don’t tell anyone because they might revoke my horror reader’s card, but apart from short stories, I have not yet read a full length Shirley Jackson novel …

So this year, with big girl pants on, industrial strength coffee by the bucketload and a determined will, the books I listed below are going to be read.

Well, Halloween is my favourite holiday ever and this October, I am hoping to read scary things all month long . And also in September. AND November. Basically all year round, but October is the time for this genre to shine

As anyone searching this hashtag on the blog will see, I got side tracked and went quitw awry, reading only 4 of the listed titles, and also books which I hadn;t even listed. BRAVA me of 2019!

This hashtag is not my exclusive invention, nor is the idea of reading scary stuff for Halloween, it’s just that it looks like a fun thing to do!

I have read all of Stephen King’s novels, James Herbert, most of Peter Straub and Dan Simmons.

Jonathan Janz is a new found favourite in the genre, I am a big fan of Flametree Press’ horror output!

So far, there have been some great suggestions on Twitter and Instagram, and after taking them on board well as plundering my TBR stash,finally I have my list of 31 booo…s to dive into!

• ‘Naomi’s Room ‘ by Jonathan Aycliffe
• ‘Haverscroft’ by S.A Harris
• ‘Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
• ‘The Bloody Chamber’ by Angela Carter
• ‘Thin Air’ by Michelle Paver
• ‘Dark Harvest’ by Norman Partridge
• ‘The Mammoth Book Of Halloween Stories’ ed by Stephen Jones
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• ‘House Of Small Shadows’ by Adam Nevill
• ‘The Crow Garden’ by Alison Littlewood
• ‘The Silent Companions’ by Laura Purcell
• ‘The Loney’ by Andrew Michael Hurley
• ‘The Guardians’ by Andrew Pyper
• ‘We Have Always Lived In The Castle’ by Shirley Jackson
• ‘Swan Song’ by Robert R McCammon
• ‘ The Body Snatchers’ by Jack Finney
• ‘Song Of Kali’ by Dan Simmons
• ‘Little Girls’ by Ronald Malfi
• ‘The Fisherman’ by John Langan
• ‘The Skin Trade’ by George RR Martin
• ‘Ghost Story’ by Peter Straub
• ‘The Winter People’ by Jennifer McMahon
• ‘Thunderbird’ by Chuck Wendig
• ‘Four And Twenty Blackbirds’ by Cherie Priest
• ‘The House Next Door’ by Anne Rivers Siddons
• ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’ by Iain Reid
• ‘Cabal’ by Clive Barker
• ‘The Hoarder’ by Jess Kidd
• ‘The Troop’ by Nick Cutter
• ‘The Ravenous’ by Amy Lukavics
• ‘Dead Girls’ by Abigail Tartellin
• ‘Ghost Road Blues’ by Jonathan Maberry

Anything which you are looking forward to reading, any ways in which you celebrate the encroaching nights of autumn and winter or ways to scare yourself silly, let me know in the usual way!

In the meantime,here is an absolute treat, that if you have the time to watch it all through is well worth it.Two titans of writing just shooting the breeze and talking books from 2016.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_PBqSPNTfg