Does anyone else do Halloween reads? (lemmy.ml)

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I've been reading something spooky/creepy/horrific around this time for a few years now. Does anyone else do this? Any recommendations?

My reads:

2023: Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
2022: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2021: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
2020: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2019: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
2018: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
2017: Carrie by Stephen King
2016: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
2015: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
2014: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
2012: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
2009: Dracula by Bram Stoker
2008: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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[-] Entropy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

You should check out Hell House by Richard Matheson. Stephen King called it "The scariest haunted house novel ever written" and that's coming from the guy who wrote The Shining. (Also read The Shining if you haven't already)

[-] PanaX@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It very much is. The movie isn't bad either.

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