Marrowbones Spooky Book Contest Book List

This is a bit late in coming because I got so many responses that I needed some time to sit down and type out the whole list from the Marrowbones contest. So here it is, in no particular order, your list of wonderful, spooky books:

The Raven by Poe,  Frank and Stein and Me by Kin Platt,  Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson and Alpha & Omega series,  "The Haunted House," which starred Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, Pickman's Model by Lovecraft (Pretty much anything by Lovecraft),  Lord of the Flies,   Lois Duncan's "Down a Dark Hall",  Christopher Pike's "Whisper of Death",  Borris and Bella illustrated by Gris Grimly,  Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn,  The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman,  The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre,  We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson,   "The Music Teacher" by John Cheever,   "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Music of Erich Zann" by Lovecraft,  "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link,  "A Diagnosis of Death" by Ambrose Bierce,   "Kehua!" by Fay Weldon,Renee French's collection Marbles in My Underpants,   Books of Blood by Clive Barker,   Roald Dahl's The Witches,  The Giver by Lois Lowry,   Jeremy Dyson's The Cranes That Build The Cranes, Spiderwick chronicles Black and Diterlizzi, Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children a collection of illustrated short stories written by Angus Oblong ,  The Hunger Games,  Jane Eyre,  Coraline by Gaiman,  Bram Stoker's "Dracula",  "There are monsters everywhere" by Mercer Mayer,  IT by Stephen King,  Vampire Hunter D ,  The Secret History by Donna Tartt,  'The Shadow over Innsmouth' Lovecraft,   Billy the Frog, by Guillaume Bianco,   'Something Wicked This Way Comes" Bradbury,  Now We Are Sick, by Neil Gaiman & various contributors,  Steven King's Skeleton Crew,  The Stand King,  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series by Alvin Schwartz,  Ghost Story, by Peter Straub,  Hellboy by Mike Mignola, Locke & Key by Joe Hill,Night Shift by Stephen King, Pet Sematary by Stephen King, The Owl Service by Alan Garner, In the Walls of Eryx by H.P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J. Sterling,  The Sea Curse, Worms of the Earth by Robert E Howard, "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, The Shining by Stephen King,  "A Tale Dark & Grimm" by Adam Gidwitz, Garfield Hallowe'en, The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey, The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, R.L. Stine's Gossebumps series , Zodiac, hitechapel Road, A Vampyre Tale by Ontario author Wayne Mallows.


Phew! what an amazing list! Thanks so much to everyone who participated. I'm sorry if yours is missing from here, I tried to get them all but there are a lot!


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