On the first day of Christmas Halloween my true love gave to me… If a guy did give me all the books listed below leading up to Halloween he would be my true love. None of this partridge in a pear tree nonsense (birds and trees die but books are forever!). Halloween is my favorite day of the year! The scares, the movies, the costumes, the decorations, the books! Here are some of my favorites that get me in the spooky spirit! In no particular order…
- Dracula
- Frankenstein
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Amittyville Horror
- Rosemary’s Baby
- The Exorcist
- The Hounds of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
- The Lazarus Syndrome: Burial Alive and Other Horrors of the Undead
- Zombie Apocalypse!
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Soulless
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- The Dead World series
- Living with the Dead series
- Hannibal Lector series
- Natural Causes
- Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
- The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
- The Historian
- Night Huntress series (and all it’s “spin-off” series)
- The Vampire Chronicles series
- Vlad: The Last Confession
- Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker
- Parasol Protectorate series
- The stories of H.P. Lovecraft
- The works of Edger Allen Poe
- And of course ANYTHING by Stephen King
Happy Halloween and Happy Reading! Source
What books get you in the Halloween spirit? Have you read any of the books on this list?
lorrs33 said:
I’m sad to say I’ve only read one book on your list (The Zombie Survival Guide) and I’m a big lover of horror. I’m going to make a note of those books for scary reads this Halloween 🙂
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Ladies of the Library said:
Glad to hear it! Kaitlyn put together an awesome list, and I especially recommend the Hannibal Lector series or anything by Stephen King. Great stuff! -A
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