Horror Aficionados discussion

As a schoolteacher I invariably make ambitious plans each year for the reading I want to get done in June, July, and August. This summer I seem to have zeroed in on horror. Having enjoyed a number of Michael McDowell’s novels in the past I plan to finally get to what’s apparently his magnum opus, Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga. I also just received a gigantic paperback in the mail of T.E.D. Klein’s The Ceremonies, a huge novel I’ve been meaning to read since...I don’t know, maybe since it first came out in the 1980s? And I plan to re-read Dracula for the first time in 20+ years too.

Anyone else have ambitious summer reading plans?

I like my summer reads to be about horror in travel, resorts, amusement parks, beaches... all the summery things I never do in real life and honestly wouldn't do if they involved ghosts and zombies and vampires!
Reading Ghostland right now and have Savages and The Last Resort coming up.

I don't have any hard plans. I need to finish DRACULA: HIS FIRST CENTURIES: The Legend of Dracula, Book I and I picked up a copy of Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers.

No real plans. With work and life in general, it's tough to put a solid plan in place.

J. wrote: "I don't have any hard plans. I need to finish DRACULA: HIS FIRST CENTURIES: The Legend of Dracula, Book I and I picked up a copy of [book:Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flyin..."

The Jacques Vallée book is excellent!

My goal this summer is to read or re-read the works of William S. Burroughs. Somehow, I am in a mood for it. However, before I start, I will finish a three volume edition of Norse sagas (edited by Austrian scholar Rudolf Simek) first.

I'm working through Goosebumps and have bought a few summer themed ones in preparedness...Ghost Beach, Deep Trouble II and The Horror at Camp Jellyjam. I'm also planning on reading Jaws for the first time, Laymon's The Travelling Vampire Show and The Lifeguard (Point Horror). Basically anything that involves beaches, camps, carnivals etc is the perfect summer read for me!

Not so much plans as vague intentions to read,
The Dead Hours of Night and Familiar Spirit by Lisa Tuttle
Curious Toys and Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand

and maybe finally get to,
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
In the Woods by Tana French

and finally finish off,
The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison

But given past summer performance, this might be a list of what I don't read this summer.