Welcome to our October Spooktacular reading month. It's time to dip your toes into the water and scare yourself silly. Read thrilling stories stocked with the mysterious and shocking, paranormal stories brimming with ghosts and goblins, or urban mysteries packed with vampires and werewolves. If you are anything like me, I can't stand horror books filled with blood and guts. Give me a psychological thriller any day, roiling with nail biting, spine chilling suspense, creepy settings, and characters you certainly wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
Choose from a wide variety of classics to the contemporary, or the Hitchcockian and Lovecraftian to Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill, to Dean Koontz, to the men and ladies of suspense.
If you haven't read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, now would be the perfect time. Put away all your preconceived notions from the movies as the book is very different and will shock and amaze you. If you have read it, dip your toes into retellings of the story as well as the reimagining's of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
From the really scary to the mild:
The 20 Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2020
31 Psychological Thriller Books That Mess with Your Head
Lock Your Doors: 8 Young Adult Thriller Books
2020 Halloween reads for Kids and Teens
Currently on my night stand are Dean Koontz's Devoted, Josh Malerman's Bird Box, Dan Simmon's Hollow Man, and Marisha Pessl's Night Film, to name a few. Hmm! Which should I read first?
~Cheers to a spooktacular reading month~
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I totally forgot that October is my spooky book month. Last year I read Dracula and two Stephen King novels.
ReplyDeleteLiked Dracula. Have you decided what you'd like to read for spooky book?
DeleteDon't seem to have a place to leave our links this week.
ReplyDeleteThat's strange because I can see the linking widget and a few people have left links. Don't know what to tell you. Blogger has been acting wonky lately.
DeleteMark, what browser are you using?
DeleteI use Chrome. I can see it fine now, but I couldn't see it then.
DeleteI'll add both to this week's.