Bloody Good Horror discussion

Alright guys - I know we were supposed to read Those Who Hunt The Night by Barbara Hambly, but after digesting the brick of IT - lets take a breather this month and enjoy the best season of the year.

However - Let's do a suggestion box:
What are your absolute go to Halloween reads? Do you go for the nostalgic, the terrifying or fun?

DANGIT I just bought that book like yesterday 😂

My favorite spooky books are honestly The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and Coraline by Neil Gaiman.

My bookclub is reading The Haunting of Hill House and I haven't read it yet :)

It’s so good I hope you like it

I recently finished The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. The story begins on Halloween night and it's really good! I liked the movie, too.

The Haunting of Hill House was really good. But for my money, Hell House was better.

I usually don't re-read fiction. Generally, I tend to read a couple of HP Lovecraft short-stories. And whenever I travel, I pick up a book of local legends and ghost stories. I tend to read from those books this time of year. And I just heard about this book that I'm thinking of checking out. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I usually don't re-read fiction. Generally, I tend to read a couple of HP Lovecraft short-stories. And whenever I travel, I pick up a book of local legends and ghost stories. I tend to read from those books this time of year. And I just heard about this book that I'm thinking of checking out. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Yeeeess I also love Hell House

I'm halfway through Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones and digging it quite a bit. I think I'll revisit October Dreams as well.

I was going to read Stephen King's new book and try to finish the shining. Now that all of you are mentioning the Haunting of Hill House I might try to start reading that instead.

My GR groups are reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, In a Glass Darkly by J Sheridan LebFanu, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike. I have a pile of horror anthologies I want to read in October. Some are stories by classics authors (1910 or earlier), and some are story collections by authors of the "new weird". I always revisit some works by Poe and Lovecraft at this time of year, too. A lot of my FB friends are rereading A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, one chapter per day; my copy went south with an ex roommate a couple of years ago, so hopefully the copy I ordered gets here next week. I always skim through The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury around the end of the month, too; I don't always read the whole story, but I always read the description of the Tree. I am thinking of reading the Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft series by Joe Hill-- I read the first two volumes, but I'd like to read the entire series now that I've collected them all. Finally, on Hallowe'en night, I like to read I Luv Halloween, Volume 1 by Keith Giffen. I have an omnibus edition of all three books-- they are a horrible and hilarious manga series. If I still have reading time left in October, I'd like to reread some Junji Ito horror manga, and I still have a copy of Hell House by Richard Matheson that I didn't get to in a previous month's book group read.