Horror is one of the few genres that I don’t read a lot in, so when I decided to put together a list of spooky Halloween reads I turned to my husband, Lee, and his sister Amy for help. Here’s what they recommend:
Lee’s List
- World War Z by Max Brooks (paperback releases 10/16)
- Off Season by Jack Ketchum
- Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
- The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon (out-of-print)
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (mass-market releases 10/30)
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Hunger by Whitley Strieber
Amy’s List:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Phantoms by Dean Koontz
- The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
- Ghost Story by Peter Straub
September 25, 2007 at 8:19 pm
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