Halloween's Chill-Thrill Horrorfest Recommendation List! (2012)
I love to read scary books and with Halloween coming soon, this seems like a good time to have a healthy reading list of delightfully wicked and evil stories and novels to dig into when alone in a graveyard.
I'd like to start off by recommending P. S. Gifford's collections of short stories. (I bought mine from Fictionwise.) Many of his stories are very O'Henryesqe, in that many have a surprise, startling ending. Obviously, some are more memorable than others.
He uses a corny framing device (like an old-time radio show), of introducing each story utilizing an imaginary character which some readers may find intrusive, but which I find hilariously demented and corny - which I feel is the whole purpose.
The stories are deliciously wicked, and I love his writing.
So.....what are your suggestions?
Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-04-2012 at 03:42 PM.
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