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90s-2000s-barbie · 7 months

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Halloween Books 🎃

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booksquotescoffee · 7 months

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What’s on your October reading list? Added a few of these to my list and excited to start them soon 🎃🍂🍁

#books #book lovers #book addicts #blog about books #book addiction #favorite books #october #reading books #spooky reads #halloween books #halloween #fall aesthetic #fall vibes

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hannahs-quirky-moments · 7 months

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Currently reading 📖

#quirkysmirk #autumn vibes #autumn aesthetic #halloween #this is halloween #books #current read #james moore #new books #halloween reads #spooky season #spooktober #halloween aesthetic #halloween books #scary stories

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somethingusefulfromflorida · 6 months

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If you're looking for some indie novels to get you into the Halloween mood, let me recommend the works of my friend Ren Montgomery. She's self-published over on Amazon, and I want to get the word out for her three books.

Horror

Haunt is a period piece set in the late 1970s. It tells the story of the Stewarts, a dysfunctional family who are looking for a fresh start in a brand new housing development, but the trauma they bring with them feeds into something sinister within the house itself. Pete is an abusive alcoholic, Mae is a lapsing fundamentalist at her wits' end, and their three young girls Kelly, Robin, and Lori are just trying to get through the new school year without slitting each others' throats.

Ren explores what it means to have faith when your views don't line up with what your Church dictates, and when those in power don't have your best interest at heart. Haunt is about the ties that bind a struggling family together, for better, or more often for worse, and the pain they face while trying to break the cycle of abuse. The presence which darkens the doorstep of the Stewarts' new haunt heightens their worst impulses and brings each and every one of them to their personal breaking point.

Haunt is both terrifying and gripping, and the 70s setting permeates every aspect of the plot; it doesn't feel like a modern story with a nostalgic 1970s coat of paint over it, it feels like something straight out of the dingy, smoke-filled, no-seatbelts-or-airbags era, an oft forgotten aspect of the decade that so many authors struggle to capture on page.

Contemporary fantasy

Monsters Are We is a story about burning bridges, both accidentally and on purpose. With some relationships, when the passion is gone, you can cut your losses and go your separate ways, but Penelope Draven doesn't have that option. Her old life with Leo the soul-sucking cheater needs to come to an end so her new life can begin.

She's danced this dance before, but this time around is going to be much more difficult for two very important reasons. First, she finally has something that makes her hesitate before throwing it all away, something she wants desperately to take with her when she goes; her teenage daughter, Clementine. Second, Leo knows what she is, what she's done, and what she's capable of, and he's not going to let either of them go so easily.

Ren explores the relationship between a mother and daughter from two very different generations, but who are more like one another than either realize. Monsters Are We is about figuring out who you are and choosing who you want to be. It's about being allowed to make irreparable mistakes so you can learn from them. The Draven girls find themselves on a road trip to hell and back which puts their lives and the lives of their closest friends into Leo's crosshairs. When they find themselves down on their luck, Penelope knows how to make her own, but it comes with a price.

Psychological thriller

Drawn to You is the story of the one that got away and one woman's twisted machinations to try and get it back. Ruby Deardon never got over her college crush, Sean Chaplin. They could have had something beautiful, Ruby tells herself, if only they had had anything at all. The timing was never right, the dominoes never fell the way she needed them to, so she lost her chance at her fairy tale happy ending.

Well, after nearly a decade of pining from a distance she decides to take matters into her own hands and insert herself back into Sean's life so they can finally have the life she's always wanted. He wants it too, she's sure of it, he just doesn't know it yet.

But just as she's about to zero in on Sean, she learns that Jeremy is zeroing in on her. She's was his one that got away, and while most women would be wary of his level of obsession, Ruby sees him as nothing but an obstacle standing between her and the future she's set her mind on. Jeremy is an unexpected dog in Ruby's game of cat and mouse, but cats have claws, and he has no idea what she's willing to do to make sure the mouse gets got.

#horror #contemporary fantasy #psychological thriller #novels #books #book recommendations #indie books #self publishing #halloween #halloween season #halloween books #halloween novels

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godzilla-reads · 7 months

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4 Spooky Books for October

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

This was suggested to me by a friend last year and it was so addicting to read. Jake Livingston is like any other teen who is trying to survive high school, survive having a crush on the handsome new student, and dealing with his family life- oh, and he can see ghosts.

2. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Edgar Allan Poe fans unite! T. Kingfisher has written an expert retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher with a killer twist. Also, she gives us a character who uses neopronouns, which was very nice!

3. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

If you can find the edition illustrated by Gris Grimly, I highly recommend his drawings, but if not, another is fine. The Halloween Tree is such a classic! It speaks to the autumnal joys and youthfulness surrounding Halloween as we travel through space and time with a group of young boys.

4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The atmosphere of this book is so eerie and gives you the chills. Two sisters who have come from money live alone outside a town and there is always tension between them and the townspeople, which is only aggravated by the arrival of someone new.

#godzilla reads #october books #halloween books #spooky books #book blog #bookworm #bookish #bibliophile #book recs #book recommendations

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unrighteousbooks · 6 months

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#halloween #halloween books #halloween decorations #halloween displays #halloween in a bookstore #aziraphale's books #october #fran #scary things mysteriously appear here #well i assume it was fran

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adharagranley-writer · 5 months

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autumn book recs

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray - OScar Wilde

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgeralds

Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The crimes of morgue Street - Edgar Allan Poe

The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde

Hamlet - Shakespeare

Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Little Women - Louise May Alcott

Any by Agatha Christie

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desdasiwrites · 6 months

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Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away.

Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

#book quote of the day #dathan auerbach #penpal #spookyober reads #horror books #creepypasta #non-linear story #stalker #book quotes #halloween books

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zombiecupcakebabydoll · 1 year

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