Horror Aficionados discussion

All the ghosts have gathered here.
Discuss and track the ghost stories you are reading for this challenge.
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Have a scary good time.

Perfect timing! I need to choose my next book today.

Cool! I just got my copy of The Valancourt Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Vol 2.

Anne wrote: "Perfect timing! I need to choose my next book today."

Hope it's something scary!

Lisa wrote: "Cool! I just got my copy of The Valancourt Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Vol 2."

I'll be reading Vol 3. I love this series.

I’m sure I’ll find something ghostly to read.



Zain 😱

Cout. Me. In. :)

WendyB wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Cool! I just got my copy of The Valancourt Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Vol 2."

I'll be reading Vol 3. I love this series."

I just discovered the series this year and bought Volume 1 last week. Very excited!

I'm guessing zombies don't count... would Joe Hill's Locke & Key books qualify, ya think?

BTW, Jonathan Maberry has a ghost story audible-only called
"Lullabye"

a story that isn't here, on Goodreads was #1 "To Summon a Fiend-Spirit" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman another great ghost story by her is Ghost Hedgehog, which I read in April, so it won't be here... also Surreal Estate and Haunted Humans

I LOVE Ghost stories!!!

Oooo, fun! I've got some Darcy Coates haunted ghosty books on my TBR list. Maybe I can finally get to them!

No susan, zombies do not count.

Latasha wrote: "No susan, zombies do not count."

:-)

Ami wrote: "Oooo, fun! I've got some Darcy Coates haunted ghosty books on my TBR list. Maybe I can finally get to them!"

Me too! Her books are a very good choice for this challenge.

Craven Manor was great! Darcy is awesome!

I'm in as well, just not sure how many I'll get to, starting out with at least 3, I have plenty that I can choose from.

Recently finished “Bag of Bones” by Stephen King- it was an excellent ghost story. Some horribly sad parts in it toward the end, but one of the main elements to a good ghost story is tragedy, isn’t it?

Good luck wishes for all the participants. Things get busy this time of year so I’m only setting a goal of 2 books. Don’t know what titles yet. Hoping to find something juicy in my collection.
I made it, with only one day before deadline left!
1. DEAD WOMAN SCORNED by Michael Clark (December 26)
2. ALETHEIA by J.S. Breukelaar (January 14)

Michael wrote: "Good luck wishes for all the participants. Things get busy this time of year so I’m only setting a goal of 2 books. Don’t know what titles yet. Hoping to find something juicy in my collection."

This challenge will give us all an excuse to get away from everyone and find a quiet spot so we can read. :)

WendyB wrote: "Michael wrote: "Good luck wishes for all the participants. Things get busy this time of year so I’m only setting a goal of 2 books. Don’t know what titles yet. Hoping to find something juicy in my ..."

That's sounds perfect to me!!

I'll be going for a re-read of one of my favourite ghost story collections, The Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths, compiled and edited by Mark Valentine. The stories are super creepy, and just perfect for winters!

I'm down for the challenge! I find it particularly hard to find a good ghost story and I don't know why. Perhaps I'm expecting too much out of a ghost story? I don't know, but either way I will pick one!

I'm working my way through some Michael McDowell. Great stuff for this challenge.

i set my goal low, for 3. I'm counting Come With Me as one of them. it so counts if anyone is reading it. maybe not your normal ghost but i think it counts.

Joe wrote: "I'm working my way through some Michael McDowell. Great stuff for this challenge."

yes!

Latasha wrote: "i set my goal low, for 3. I'm counting Come With Me as one of them. it so counts if anyone is reading it. maybe not your normal ghost but i think it counts."

Yes I was just thinking that I can add this to my own challenge too :)

Latasha wrote: "i set my goal low, for 3. I'm counting Come With Me as one of them. it so counts if anyone is reading it. maybe not your normal ghost but i think it counts."

OOH--good one, I didn't think of that! It fits perfectly.

I think a reasonable goal for December is 3 ghost stories for me!

1. Come with Me by Ronald Malfi (finished 12/31/21)
2. The Ghost of Shapley Hall by Amy Cross
3. Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
4. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

think i chose 7, when i used browser, can't see it now, but it might be high as I'm not as much in a ghost mood as I thought lol. we'll see. I just started Come With Me, but I'm not sure if it is a ghost story, time will show :D

When I use the challenge link, there’s only my 2021 Reading Challenge, but not this challenge. Am I missing something?

If your using the app, it’s the app. It sucks bad.

The Toll by Cherie Priest was a really good and unique ghost story!

I liked that one too Ami.

If I read stories from an anthology, does each story count, or can I only count books?

The way Goodreads sets up the challenges only a book counts through the official, unless you find separate listings for the individual stories and want to enter them that way. Not sure if you can list the book itself multiple times in the challenge or not.
However, if you want to just list the stories read individually on a post in this thread that's entirely up to you.

Kasia wrote: "Craven Manor was great! Darcy is awesome!

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I think that might have been my favorite of her haunted house work (so far anyways)!

Joe wrote: "I'm working my way through some Michael McDowell. Great stuff for this challenge."

Another favorite author of mine! Which ones are you reading? I need some title help for this challenge. Lol. My brain is blank for any good ghost titles.... :o

#1. The Invited, Jennifer McMahon - this was a good ghost story if anyone needs ideas!

#2. Hotel Chelsea (World’s Scariest Places), Jeremy Bates - sadly this turned out not to be a ghost story as it implied. Weird and dumb twist near the end. Boo! ☹️

#3. Don’t Look Back, Ben Cheetham - this was a good ghost story and I think it left the door open for more. I believe there’s a second book about the house in this one.

#4. Ghostland, Duncan Ralston - hmmm I enjoyed this one but somehow the writing didn’t completely flow for me and it felt like it took longer than usual to read it. Lots of ghosts, some vicious kills until it kind of got blasé. 1st in a series but I don’t think I’ll continue.

I liked the Invited too. Jennifer McMahon is really good.

I started off with a nice short one:


Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw was delightfully creepy.

Leanne wrote: "I started off with a nice short one:


Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw was delightfully creepy."

ooh, I got my copy from the library today...

Yes! I want to read Nothing But Blackened Teeth as well! :D I'm looking forward to it!

I'm working my way through . So far most of the stories have been great. I especially liked Sir Hugo's Prayer for the humor.

Alan wrote: "The way Goodreads sets up the challenges only a book counts through the official, unless you find separate listings for the individual stories and want to enter them that way. Not sure if you can l..."

Thanks!

WendyB wrote: "I'm working my way through . So far most of the stories have been great. I especially liked Sir Hugo's Pr..."

I'm reading the first book in this series. It's so fun.

Also just finished When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen, which I have very mixed feelings about, curious to know if others have read it. Lots of ghosts and some real too-true-to-life horror by the end.

i finished mine with this trilogy- The Nightmare Room

So far I’ve read The Willows which was good, Secret Worship which was very good, and Ancient Sorceries which I didn’t enjoy. All of these are by Algernon Blackwood.

Woot! Woot! Love some Blackwood!

Stuff I've read so far -

The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
After-Supper Ghost Stories, The Skeleton - Jerome K Jerome
The Doll's Ghost - F. Marion Crawford
All Hallows Eve - Michael Penning (this one's a novel)

Canterville is obviously an all time classic, but "The Doll's Ghost" has been my favourite so far, it was particularly chilly.

Reading The Carrow Haunt and really enjoying it.