As you know Halloween is just around the corner. Although in my part of the world we don’t celebrate it, still it is my favorite time of the year. Why? Because I just love reading scary novels and watching scary movies and they are always more fun when everyone seems to be talking about them. Let’s face it, there days more of our lives are spent online than offline and when you’re online it really doesn’t matter where you’re from you can take part in anything and everything.
I’m kind of a seasonal reader. I like to read Christmas-y stories in December, stories about new beginnings around the new year, romantic comedies in February, so on and so forth. Naturally, October is a month for horror.
But what is horror in your book? Do you think ghost stories are scary? Or do you like to read about monsters? Paranormal fantasy maybe? Or something entirely different?
If I’m being honest, ghosts stories don’t scare me at all. Werewolves and vampires have been romanticized so much that they are no longer scary either. To be fair, psychological thrillers scare me more than these kinds of books.
Thrillers are certainly the best kind of books to increase your heart rate and have you worrying about your characters. They keep you on your toes, second guessing everything, and scaring you to death!
If we’re talking horror then I must talk about R.L. Stine. He is my most favorite author. I absolutely adore his fear street series, especially The Fear Stree Saga. I’ve been reading these books since I was a teenager and I still love them. Fear Street is a fictitious place, there are stories that most of the houses on this street are all haunted or they’ve brutal stories to tell. In Fear Street series there are no real monsters though, people turn out to be the real culprits. Although, in its spin-off series we deal with ghosts and curses. One of the books that I’ve read many times is Haunted (Fear Street #7). Anyhow, these books are thrilling but not really that scary. 99 Fear Street: The House of Evil trilogy was really scary though.
As far as recently published horror novels go, these are on my TBR;
- The Cabinet at the End of the World By Paul Tremblay
- Frankenstein in Baghdad By Ahmed Saadawi
- Into the Drowning Deep By Mira Grant
- The Forgotten Child By Melissa Erin Jackson
- My Pet Serial Killer By Michael J. Seidlinger
So, what are your favorite October reads? I’d love to hear about them.
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