Are you ready for a Spooktacular October full of chills and thrills, spine tingling adventure stories, and unexpected, jump out and surprise you, don't turn the lights off reads? If you are anything like me, gruesome horror isn't your thing. However, psychological, mind bending, Hitchcock type thrillers full of suspense are my favorite type of reads, along with paranormal, ghosts, vampires, were wolves and the weird.
If you haven't read the classics, now would be your chance with Frankenstein or Dracula, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Grey or Something Wicked This Way Comes. Put away your expectations because you may be surprised when they don't turn out how you suspect they will.
If you need a few ideas, check out Bustle's 20 New Horror Books For Readers Who Take Spooky Season Seriously or 11 Books That Scared The Master of Horror, Stephen King, And Will Terrify You, Too, as well as 5 Classic Horror Novels You Can Finish in a Single Sitting.
Lit Reactor's The 15 Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2019
Bookriot's 25 Top Horror Books According to Goodreads or What to Read if You Love Hitchcock Movies.
Haunted Rooms 12 Best Ghost Books to Keep You Up at Night.
Vampire Book Club's Sure fire favorites for Urban Fantasy
Off the Shelf's 8 Psychological Thrillers With Twists You Won’t See Coming
I've grown quite fond of Dean Koontz amazing stories and currently have Watchers as well as Intensity along with Dan Simmons Hollow Man, Steven King's The Green Mile, Josh Mallerman's Bird Box, and James Rollins Deep Fathom on my nightstand. Which one shall I read?
What spooktacular books will you be reading this month?
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Scary books are not my thing either, but I am reading books from the 1000 Books to Read Before You Die book list, and my Goodreads group (of which the author of 1000 Books is a member) voted for 11/22/63 by Stephen King as our "Scary October" read. I am also reading Carrie since it is on the list. I will have to throw in Dracula for good measure. OH MY!
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