September 2024 Group Read Nominations

[Kimberly]

Madison wrote: "Ghost Story by Peter Straub"

This one is not eligible.

[Kimberly]

I'll 2nd Sweetheart, Sweetheart

[Fredstrong]

Carri wrote: "How to sell a haunted house" This was great!

[Ruth]

+1 The Midnight Lullaby
+1 Holly Horror

[Brooke]

Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger.

[Alan]

Bookstigator wrote: "I nominate

Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

Not eligible.

[Anshika]

I third Sweetheart, Sweetheart

[FranWeird]

+1 Holly Horror
+1 Incidents Around the House
+1 The Whispering Dead

I'm excited for next month 🤗

[Kai]

Disappearance at Devil's Rock Paul Tremblay
and his surname is perfect for the genre

[The bookish Witch]

What do you all think of:
12 Nights in Rotter House

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

[Chris]

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

[Kandice]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by
Shirley Jackson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

[Kimberly]

Kandice wrote: "We Have Always Lived in the Castle by
Shirley Jackson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8..."

**PLEASE check the book you want with the link provided in the first paragraph--it tells you the previous group reads in monthly, and after that, alphabetical order--BEFORE nominating.

This title is also not eligible.**

[Alan]

Chris wrote: "The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman"

PREVIOUS GROUP READ. NOT ELGIBILE.

[Alan]

Here is the full previous group read list. If a book is listed here it IS NOT ELIGIBLE as has been stated numerous times above, so DO NOT NOMINATE anything already on the list.

PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE

14 by Peter Clines

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatmans' Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke

Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

You Like it Darker by Stephen King

[Nicolai Alexander]

+1 The Turn of the Screw

[Nicolai Alexander]

And I'll nominate Japanese Ghost Stories :)

[Carla]

Debra wrote: "The Dead Pennies mentioned above sounds promising."

And the author would most likely be available for discussion/questions. Added bonus. :)

[Jessica]

Welcome to Nightmare Island by Devin Cabrera

[Emily]

Welcome to Nightmare Island!

[Seb]

Man, when I got back to the topic and saw Alan's message I thought "that's a big list of suggestions for September" 😂

[Elizabeth]

The Good House by Tananarive Due

[Dean]

Diavola!

[Wyrd]

I nominate The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.

[Ruth]

Elizabeth wrote: "The Good House by Tananarive Due"

That's a great book, but it's not eligible... please read message 65.

[Aaron]

+1 Incidents Around the House

+1 The Dead Pennies

[Judy Cadena]

The Spire in the Wood by Tony Lunedi


The Dark by David C. Cassidy

[Judy Cadena]

Alan wrote: "
House of Windows by John Langan"

+1 for House of Windows

[Shannon]

+1 Incidents Around The House

[Jessica]

The Grip of It by Jac Jemc

[Chandler]

I nominate Craven Manor

+1 Diavola

[ashleyees]

ghost camera by darcy coates

[Taryn]

I don’t see Amityville Horror on there
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Horror https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[[deleted user]]

+1 for The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

[Fatman]

+1 for House of Windows

+1 for The Woman in Black

[Ginger Ninja]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Li Lin]

A classic:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

[Judy Cadena]

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

[Jess]

Diavola by Jennifer Thorne.

[Joy]

Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

+1 House of Windows by John Langan

[WendyB]

Get your nominations in. Today is the last day.

[Sun P. Persona]

Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson?

Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

[Amanda]

+1 The Grip of It
+1 The Reformatory

[Lita]

+1 Diavola

[Aaron]

+1 The Reformatory.

[CerinaWithaSea]

Ive never nominated anything before, im not sure if short stories are ok
I immediately thought of black phone when i saw this which is a short story In 20th Century Ghosts
which is perfectly titled for this
(i dont know how to add the covers i just figured out today how to link a book)

[Dale]

Eynhallow

By the end of this book, my nomination will make sense.

[Christine]

Dale wrote: "Eynhallow

By the end of this book, my nomination will make sense."

Hmmm, aside from this being an amazing and extraordinary book, I'm trying to recall the....oh the friend with the tragedy?

[Dale]

Nailed it!

[Christopher]

+1 Bentley Little: The Haunted