Horror Aficionados discussion

The theme this month is "I See Dead People"

This could be books with ghosts, zombies, or simply a very high body count from serial killers or plagues. Use your imagination... as long as there are dead people.
The more, the scarier!

All the usual rules apply.
If we've read it before, forget it. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Authors, please do not nominate your own books. It's tacky.
Books with +1s are more likely to make the poll.


Most of all, have a great time reading in October and have a Happy Halloween.

NOT ELIGIBLE PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE

14 by Peter Clines

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatmans' Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
It by Stephen King

Jaws by Peter Benchley
The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom

Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren
Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Parasite by Darcy Coates
Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shining by Stephen King
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

You Like it Darker by Stephen King

I'll suggest I Am The River

I'll suggest these two:

Cemetery Club

Deadman's Road

Dawn Of The Mummy by Mark L'estrange

I nominate:

Come Knocking

Ghost Mother

The Lamb

Floating Dragon by Peter Straub ticks all the boxes. Oh, and Dead & Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro!

Fishface wrote: "Floating Dragon by Peter Straub ticks all the boxes. Oh, and Dead & Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro!"

I read Floating Dragon waaay back when it first came out in the '80s.
Still scares the crap outta me.
+1 for Floating Dragon

+1 I am the River

The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White

Revelator

The Haunting by Bentley Little

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

+1 I Am The River

When I had posted the amulet, my phone wasn’t showing me the theme so I will be using my laptop for all of this from now on.

That being said, I would like to nominate cold moon over Babylon by Michael McDowell

Laddy wrote: "When I had posted the amulet, my phone wasn’t showing me the theme so I will be using my laptop for all of this from now on.

That being said, I would like to nominate cold moon over Babylon by Mic..."

To help us mods understand how the app works (or doesn't work) as opposed to the desktop site, what didn't you see regarding the theme? Did post #1 not show, because the very first sentence stated the theme, the 2nd explaining it further. (Not accusing or anything, genuinely curious what you did or didn't see.)

The Rib From Which I Remake the World
by Ed Kurtz




The Pear Shaped Man
by George R.R. Martin



The Worst Kind of Monsters
by Elias Witherow




The Man Who Watched the World End
by Chris Dietzel



The Black Farm
by Elias Witherow




Day by Day Armageddon
by J.L. Bourne




Awake in the Night Land
by John C. Wright



House of Windows
by John Langan


Dead City
by Joe McKinney

Gretchen Felker-Martin's Black Flame
Black Flame

+1 for Dead & Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
+1 for Come Knocking by Mike Bockoven
+1 for Floating Dragon by Peter Straub

Alan wrote: "Laddy wrote: "When I had posted the amulet, my phone wasn’t showing me the theme so I will be using my laptop for all of this from now on.

That being said, I would like to nominate cold moon over ..."

When I used my phone I got the msg that said the october nominations are open so i clicked on it. After going back and looking again I now see that it does say the theme is " I see dead people " in my haste I had just clicked the link to nominate. But once i click the link (Using my phone) the first comment I see is the not eligible post.
Im also not use to using this app as much as I have been. Normally I just look at the wining books and participate from afar. Thand you for the feed back :]

Laddy wrote: "When I used my phone I got the msg that said the october nominations are open so i clicked on it. After going back and looking again I now see that it does say the theme is " I see dead people " in my haste I had just clicked the link to nominate. But once i click the link (Using my phone) the first comment I see is the not eligible post.
Im also not use to using this app as much as I have been. Normally I just look at the wining books and participate from afar. Thand you for the feed back :]."

It's all good. There are some situations where we sometimes forget the app doesn't render things the way the website does, so if people are seeing or not seeing things because of it, it's good for us to know. Thanks for the comments.

Snowblind by Christopher Golden
Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi
Widow's Point by Richard & W.H. Chizmar

The spotlight by Serena Mercer

+1 Come Knocking 🗿

+1 for The black farm

The Dead Zone by Stephen King The Dead Zone

Wyndclyffe by Joe Hart

+1 The Black Farm

+1 The Worst Kind of Monsters

Home is where the Bodies are by Janeva Rose

Fishface wrote: "Floating Dragon by Peter Straub ticks all the boxes. Oh, and Dead & Buried by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro!"

I loved Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's St. Germaine books! I was sad to hear that she passed away a week or two ago.

+1 Come Knocking (I've enjoyed his work since Fantasticland.)


+1 The Rib From Which I Remake the World

The exorcist house

+1 Come Knocking

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Noey wrote: "Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng"

Not sure why this wasn't on the previous reads list, but it's one of our current group reads.

Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp by Molly Tanzer

+1 Come Knocking

+1 Come Knocking

+1 The Worst Kind of Monsters

+1 The Black Farm (I've read it before, it's just SO good and I would totally reread!)

+Baby Teeth

Sarah wrote: "+Baby Teeth"

No one so far as I can see nominated this, which is just as well, as it's a previous group read and therefore not eligible.

Children of the Dark

Julia by Peter Straub

We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

The Lamb

Tender Is the Flesh

Dark Matter

The Exorcists House by Nick Roberts.

Summer in the House of the Departed

Lee wrote: "
Tender Is the Flesh

Dark Matter [bookcover:Dark Matter: A Ghost S..."

Previous group reads therefore not eligible. Read posts 1 and 2 before nominating.

+1 Black Flame

Today's the last day for noms and +1s.
The poll will be up this weekend.

Aaron wrote: "We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough"

+1