Be Afraid: It's Horror Week on Goodreads!

I really enjoyed participating! I read A Head Full of Ghosts and it was more terrifying than expected.

I just started The Luminous Dead and around Halloween I like to re-read Widow's Point, Island 731, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

And I'm always looking for other books like Doctor Moreau, 731, and Widow's Point.

Currently reading It by Stephen King for the first time!
Getting ready to read The Institute next :)

I think this is one of the most haunting movies I've ever watched. It's taken me almost a decade to build up the nerve to read the book. Never Let Me Go

I’m reading The Institute by Stephen King

Don't know if it counts as horror, but I recently published this- https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1697420753 ("Banished Angel", also available on Kindle). First person who read it said they couldn't put it down.

https://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Pleasur...

Started to read The Exorcist

Finally getting around to reading House of Leaves

Say goodbye to ordering. Visit your public library and check out the book for free! If you don't want to visit the library, you can always see if they have the free app OverDrive or Libby. You can download the ebook or audiobook to any electronic device! I'm a public librarian, so I just had to say this! :) Good luck with your latest read!

Started The Haunting of Hill House, and hopefully I will not weird myself out as S. King says haha

The Best Ghost Stories Ever Told, edited by Stephen Brennan

Alright...
Creeps and horrors

I'm so scared by your comments that I'm not going to try to read them :(

I highly recommend Wychwood and its sequel Hallowdene by George Mann. If you enjoy folk-horror/mystery/detective stories set in the English countryside.

If you are looking for something to spook you, maybe a ghost story by M.R. James? When it comes to being genuinely creeped out, I suggest his stories to others.

Blood of the Flock by Gerald Rochelle. This is a follow-up for me from this author of Cold Blood. Fancy eternal life? You won't after reading this!

This year's Hallowe'en read (actually, a re-read) is Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. I first read it about 45 years ago. Back in the 70s, my older brother and I used to enjoy reading occult-themed books, such as this one and some by Dennis Wheatley. It was a lot of fun reading them. Rosemary's Baby is more suspenseful than scary, but Levin very effectively reveals clues to the reader about what's really going on. And it has one of the worst husbands in fiction! A good tale for the season.

I think I'll try A Head Full of Ghosts and after that, all I can by Lovecraft. :)

Lacey wrote: "Say goodbye to ordering. Visit your public library and check out the book for free! If you don't want to visit the library, you can always see if they have the free app OverDrive or Libby. You can ..."

You are wonderfully correct! I also work at the public library. It's where you can find just about ANYTHING and the price is right!!

Gene wrote: "Last night I started "Silence for the Dead" (Simone St. James) I'm only 30 or so pages in, but I do like the way the story line is being set up."

Try her books "The Haunting of Maddy Clare" or An Inquiry Into Love and Death They are SCARY rather than horror. Lovely lovely!!

There is something for babies too!
Baby's First Halloween
Hope you enjoy them as much me!

This list most certainly should carry something by Richard Matheson, like, Hell House or perhaps A Stir of Echoes

His writing never fails to intrigue us all. He has written many Twilight Zone episodes.

Has anyone out there read, Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon?
This is one for the ages! Sublimely scary! Eerily haunting.

Last week I read ALice, Really violent, and I liked it alot.

Right now I am into Doctor Sleep by Stephen King and Dacre Stoker's "Dracul" which I believe is a horror masterpiece.

curleduptoes wrote: "Jelena wrote: "Dracul
This one is sooo spooooky"

I completely agree! Some lovely horror it has."
I cant put it down , a masterpiece

I am also rereading Stoker's Dracula.

Marie wrote: "Horror books are my main genre so that is mostly what I read all year long, but for October I am doing my own personal challenge of reading horror books that are about Halloween. So I got a few lin..."

What would be your top recommendation in this genre?

Vincent wrote: "I am just getting started on the book title "We are all completely fine" by Daryl Gregory. It is a semi superhero, zombie horror, and supernatural thriller book."

Vincent wrote: "I am just getting started on the book title "We are all completely fine" by Daryl Gregory. It is a semi superhero, zombie horror, and supernatural thriller book."

Daryl Gregory is very good, hope you enjoy!

Pet Semetary by Stephen King.

I'm almost done reading Stephen King's The Stand

The House Next Door by Darcy Coates.

Gene wrote: "Last night I started "Silence for the Dead" (Simone St. James) I'm only 30 or so pages in, but I do like the way the story line is being set up."

Ooh! I liked Silence for the Dead! Hope you enjoy it!

The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell.

I just read The Troop and found it to be horrifying. It feels reminiscent of Stephen King's early works and several times found myself cringing while reading - not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. Can't recommend it enough.

Rain wrote: "Gene wrote: "Last night I started "Silence for the Dead" (Simone St. James) I'm only 30 or so pages in, but I do like the way the story line is being set up."

Ooh! I liked Silence for the Dead! Ho..."

I did. :)

Ptaylor wrote: "I read The Turn of the Key, thinking it might be an update of The Turn of the Screw. It wasn't. It was supposed to be suspenseful, but it wasn't. It was disappointing. I had some of it figured out ..."

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is the BEST. Shirley Jackson is amazing.

For my spooky reads, I got Help for the Haunted, by John Searles, and Bellman & Black, by Diane Setterfield. About halfway through the first one so far.

Catherine wrote: "There is something for babies too!
Baby's First Halloween
Hope you enjoy them as much me!"

LOL !

Linn wrote: "I'm reading Dracula."

Dracul . The name even gives me the creeps . Way more than Voldemort . Enjoy .

Revival, Stephen King

The Darkwater Bride


A gruesome, sordid tale set in Victorian London - you need a strong stomach for this one!

It is an Audible original theatrical production.

Evening's Land
Beautiful cover
Wonderfully written, but truly the most horrific book ever....

Any recommendations for Regency or Victorian horror?

Kiesha ~ 1Cheekylass wrote: "Any recommendations for Regency or Victorian horror?"

The "Woman in Black" is a good one.

I am reading The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty, and I am fascinated. It's very chilling.

Try Frank Barnard's new novel, 'A Remembrance of Ghosts'. Spooky, gripping, and original.

Lynette wrote: "My Halloween pull for this year:
Rebecca
The Turn of the Screw
The Black Witch
Not so much deep horror this year as classic Gothic and magic-based fantasy."

Sam wrote: "I don't even own horror books :D"

Sam wrote: "I don't even own horror books :D"

Rebeca, one of the best!