I’ve been reading something spooky/creepy/horrific around this time for a few years now. Does anyone else do this? Any recommendations?

My reads:

  • 2023: Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
  • 2022: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • 2021: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • 2020: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • 2019: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
  • 2018: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
  • 2017: Carrie by Stephen King
  • 2016: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 2015: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  • 2014: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 2012: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
  • 2009: Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • 2008: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The older 80s-90s versions of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, the ones illustrated by Stephen Gammel, are evergreen reads. If you have a good narration voice, ideal for campfire telling or other all-ages sharing.

    Warning if you look them up: the Stephen Gammel illustrations are very creepy.

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      1 year ago

      The complete collection is on Kindle for £0.99, so I have that now, thanks. It includes the Gammel illustrations, and they look great!