Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish.
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman: An adopted family of ghosts? Yes, please.
- Horns by Joe Hill: You know when you wake up and suddenly you have horns growing out of your head and people can’t stop telling you terrible secrets? Rough AND incredibly entertaining.
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: A terrifying house and super smart, witty characters. I want to reread this book all the time.
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller: I read this in high school around Halloween and then we went to Salem, MA, to visit the museums focusing on the witch trials. The play is now and forever linked to Halloween fun for me.
- Nocturnes by John Connolly: Scary Short Stories for Adults
- Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell: The (original) illustrations are scarier than most of the stories. I used to read these by flashlight under the covers of my bed.
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater is pretty much the scariest.
- Zombies vs Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier: Light hearted fun with unicorns. I have no complaints.
- Danse Macabre by Stephen King: King’s look at horror movies and novels and radio. If there’s anything I love more than horror movies and novels and radio, it’s critical analysis of those things.
- Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson: OoooOOooo she can’t remember things when she wakes up and her husband may be fucking with her on purpose! OoooOOoooOO
The Graveyard Book is on my list too. I almost put Zombie vs Unicorns on my list too.
They’re such fun!
Such a diverse list! I’m definitely going to listen to The Graveyard Book soon. And I want to read that unicorn book!
Zombies Vs Unicorns is a really solid anthology–no duds! I might have to reread The Graveyard Book by listening to it…Gaiman reads it, yes?
LOL, love this list. The description of Before I Go to Sleep made me LOL. I’ve really enjoyed some of Connolly’s stuff, so I need to get around to Nocturnes.
Have you read his detective series? I’m vaguely interested but I like his supernatural stuff so much that I’m afraid the regular series won’t live up to it.
Great list! I was just thinking today that I should read The Crucible to my kids this weekend — I haven’t read it since college. There would be a wealth of fodder for discussion as — unfortunately — “witch hunts” have never gone out of style. And my son really enjoyed The Graveyard Book.
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Why do people keep pushing Joe Hill on me??? I’m gonna end up caving one day, I just know it.
Blackwater–haha!–you are too funny. I’ve been wayyyy too scared to read that one. I feel the same way about The Haunting of Hill House and Horns, and really need to read Danse Macabre and The Graveyard Book already. Have you seen either of the movie versions of Hill House? Neither does justice to the book and the newer version is complete Hollywood bunk, but kinda fun.
I saw The Haunting, the one with Lili Taylor, which was a total BOOOOOOO (and not in a fun way). I almost didn’t read the book because of it.
Love The Haunting of Hill House and Danse Macabre – I read that several times when I was in my teens.