Celebrate the Horror Genre on Goodreads

yessss!!!! finally some halloweenish recs :))

It's officially Spooky Season!

Buenos días,
me falta libros de autores en otros idiomas que no sean el inglés. Yo propongo en castellano la novela "Nuestra parte de noche" , (2020) de Marina Enríquez, libro terrorífico donde los haya.
Saludos desde Valencia, España.

I looove horror. There are so many subgenres and I love them all. From spooky (but not scary) middle grade horror to extremely gore hardcore horror / splatterpunk, and everything in between.
Some favorite horror authors: David Sodergren, Ruby Jean Jensen, Ray Garton, Stephen King, Kristopher Triana, Guy N Smith, Richard Laymon, Joe Knetter

my first Horror book was King's "IT" and boy did it leave a bad taste in my mouth. But I somewhat recuperated with his "The Shining" soon after.

I was planning to do a Halloween reading challenge, so this is gonna be SO useful !

Ahhhh .... my first teen love 😍 horror!

plan to read all thrillers for the month of October so thank you for this!

hope to get through a bunch of these in october!

I hope I find audiobooks of em all

let the right one in , should be on the list

Woo, let's check the lists.
I am participating in a spooky book bingo in October and November and my bingo card is already set, but maybe I find some new reads for next year's book bingo. 👻😁

Great list but I miss the more classic horror books. lots of the same new books.

I think Clive Barker should be there

I love horror books hope go through some on October 😍

Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

Love finding new horror books. Looking for new indie authors with great horror/thrillers? Check me out.

Eeep! I think I need a "Horror for Wimps" reading list! I loved Dracula, & Turn of the Screw, & I want to read Rebecca du Maurier, but beyond that...I put some of these books on my "I'm-Too-Scared-To-Read-This" shelf. *shudder*

Joy wrote: "Eeep! I think I need a "Horror for Wimps" reading list! I loved Dracula, & Turn of the Screw, & I want to read Rebecca du Maurier, but beyond that...I put some of these books on my "I'm-Too-Scared-..."

Joy, you might enjoy A Certain Slant of Light or Marianne Dreams. They're more dark fantasy than horror, but their spooky atmospheric tension might meet that "horror for wimps" label. :)

Thomas Ligotti is never mentioned, his work is quite bleak but unique.
The Dark Domain by (Stefan Grabinski) or The Monk by (Matthew Gregory Lewis) are worth reading.
I'm aware of the controversy of the book though.

Paquita SanMartín wrote: "Buenos días,
me falta libros de autores en otros idiomas que no sean el inglés. Yo propongo en castellano la novela "Nuestra parte de noche" , (2020) de Marina Enríquez, libro terrorífico donde lo..."

¡Saludos desde Estados Unidos! Visité Valencia este verano y estaba buscando algunas obras de horror por autores de España. ¿Tiene algunas recomendaciones? ¡Gracias y feliz Spooky Season!

No love for graphic novels? Booooooo!

My favorite season - looks like a fun list. Tried to comment on one but the comments section has been closed is the notice I'm getting?

SPOOKY SEASON

CrazyOsi wrote: "my first Horror book was King's "IT" and boy did it leave a bad taste in my mouth. But I somewhat recuperated with his "The Shining" soon after."

IT seriously traumatized me

I've only read one book classified as horror, and I can't say I care for the genre much based off of that. If it's something spooky, I prefer mystery and thriller.

Yay horror books finally

Chris Priestley's 'Tales of Terror'. There are three books, each with a different child being told ghostly stories to- a nephew, two siblings who live on the cliffside and a student returning to boarding school on a train. But these stories begin to seep into reality... written for children and set in Victorian era England; they haunted me (in the best way possible!) as a pre- horror-movie fan.

According to myth and legend (and Goodreads), there exists a novelization of "Halloween" so I will be looking into this.

I love the horror genre. My favorite authors are H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and Robert Aickman.

SPOoOoKY

Kim wrote: "Joy wrote: "Eeep! I think I need a "Horror for Wimps" reading list! I loved Dracula, & Turn of the Screw, & I want to read Rebecca du Maurier, but beyond that...I put some of these books on my "I'm..."

Thanks! I added them to my want to read list.

1X?X3 wrote: "Love finding new horror books. Looking for new indie authors with great horror/thrillers? Check me out."

I intend to head over!

CrazyOsi wrote: "my first Horror book was King's "IT" and boy did it leave a bad taste in my mouth. But I somewhat recuperated with his "The Shining" soon after."

I second this! Really didn't like IT, but I read "Carrie" and I really liked that!

The short stories 'Lost Hearts' by M.R.James and 'Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu stand out amongst other fine, intelligent horror tales. Both have been filmed. The best, most terrifying version, of 'Lost Hearts' is the 1973 BBC tv film directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. 'Schalken the Painter', a very beautiful as well as horrifying film, was also a BBC tv production in 1979. If you like thought-provoking terror and you haven't read/seen them, they are worth a try.

Spoopy season, finally! 🐈‍⬛🦇🍁🎃

Some of the books listed I've either read, or seen the movies. So glad these Halloween-y scary books were posted to remind us that it's time to read the creepy stuff. I remember reading Stephen King's "Pet Cemetery" and wanting to toss the book across the room when I hit the creepy parts. Ditto with Joe Hill's "NOS4A2".

Misery!!!!!

spoooooooky season is hereeee

Yo necesito un libro que te de vibras de otoño y de mistiero con un poco de miedo pero no demasiado. Porque soy una ceguera en ese sentido jejejeje

This year my halloween read is gonna be Verity by Coho! 🎃👻

Nicholas wrote: "The short stories 'Lost Hearts' by M.R.James and 'Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu stand out amongst other fine, intelligent horror tales. Both have been filmed. The best, most terrifying ..."

M.R. James writes such DREADFUL stories. I have to read them in small doses. "Lost Hearts" is nearly a masterpiece. ...so is "Oh Whistle". I actually dread being alone after reading his stuff lol

Looking forward to reading some new offerings, and re-reading old favorites--if I dare! M.R. James is a favorite, so is Algernon Blackwood and Wakefield. I love the creeping, subtle dread of these tales ~~shudder~ !!!!!

I find that true horror is found in real-life stories - tales of abduction, murder, psychological torture, stalking, etc. That stuff scares me more than ghosts or haunted houses. I do enjoy a good exorcism or two, demonic possessions, and other religious anomalies.

Nice article. Some love for horror is appreciated during the rest of the year as well. I will be reading Books of Blood, The Only Good Indians, The Turn of the Screw and HEX this spooky season. 🎃

It's a travesty Poppy Z. Brite isn't on this list. I'd rec , which is an unconventional haunted house story, but really anything he's written is well worth checking out.

Just started the always classic "Dracula" by Bram Stoker today, which I've had for years on my bookshelves but never touched before.

I've been also reading other classic vampire books for a few days: "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu and "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori, and I intend to finish both in a week.

Besides these vampire stories I am also struggling with "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Read only the first two chapters for a long time.

Ohh, ohh, I forgot: I've also been reading "Sabriel" by Garth Nix which is a fantasy but a dark fantasy with lots of undead villains and necromancy as the main theme so it might be classified under "horror". I hope I can finish it and then start the sequel "Lirael" still this month.

I was also planning to read "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir this month because it's also a dark fantasy with necromancers and it's kinda horror but I decided to leave it to November because I am reading too many books at the same time right now.

Do yourself a favour and try Caitlin R. Kiernan's writing, one of the best writers of the strange and unsettling imho.

Chris wrote: "It's a travesty Poppy Z. Brite isn't on this list. I'd rec , which is an unconventional haunted house story, but really anything he's written is well worth checking out."

Agree!