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Old 09-05-2009, 06:20 PM   #1
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Books for Halloween!
I'm looking for some scary horror books to get me into the spirit of Halloween. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Also, what books get you into the Halloween spirit?
(They don't have to be scary!) :P
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Old 09-06-2009, 10:34 AM   #2
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Two books I read religiously every year, both not that scary, but both classics in my book:

The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury

Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny

Sadly, both are unavailable as e-books (as of my last checking)
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Old 09-06-2009, 10:45 AM   #3
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That's alright! I still read paper books so I'll definitely check those out.
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Old 09-07-2009, 01:25 AM   #4
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The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston

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Pet Semetery by Stephen King
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Bram Stoker's Dracula

H.P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu

Both have been uploaded by the good folks here at MB and are free.

There are also a couple Horror short story anthologies in there too.
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Old 09-07-2009, 05:39 PM   #6
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There's also The String of Pearls (the original Sweeney Todd story), available at manybooks.net.
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Old 09-07-2009, 06:25 PM   #7
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I second A Night in the Lonesome October.

I would also suggest Ray Bradbury's short story The October Game.

And maybe something by Fritz Leiber like Our Lady of Darkness or Conjure Wife or one of his ghost stories.
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Old 09-09-2009, 11:40 AM   #8
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I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Hell House - Richard Matheson
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Some favorites:
The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker
It, Stephen King
Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi (What's scarier than true horror?)
The Strain, Chuck Hogan
The Keep, F. Paul Wilson
The Terror, Dan Simmons
Speaks the Nightbird, Robert McCammon
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Old 09-09-2009, 01:12 PM   #10
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The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman. Because Halloween just requires a graveyard, you know...
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Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
The Graveyard Book by Gaiman
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

The last one's kind of an experiment and a bit challenging to read but worth checking out.
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Hell House - Richard Matheson
I definitely have to second that one. If you saw the 70's movie with Roddy McDowell, don't let that stop you. This is a fantastic read, genuinely creepy, and doesn't give up until the very end.

In the same haunted house vein, I'll reccomend Shirley Jackson's similarly titled (but much subtler, but not less hair raising) Haunting of Hill House.
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If you're not in the mood for horror, there's always Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party.
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