HORROR Reads for Lovers of EVERY Genre! - Spooky Season Reads

The prose is beautiful, often times lyrical and you have to go back and read that line again because it's explaining or describing something truly horrendous, but at the same time there's some beauty in those words. because he's at full control even at this early stage of his career of the language that he's using.

A lot of people have read Boy's Life and that's kind of more magical realism than actually spooky. When you think about coming-of-age, I think there's kind of some high water marks in speculative fiction.

this is a wonderful epic fantasy journey with an antihero that is going to get under your skin. It's got a great framing narrative. It is some of the most inventive profanity you have ever laid your eyes on.

Hyperion is one of my top all-time sci-fi books, but also a great horror writer.

It's just the solitude is absolutely beautiful as a theme in this book. If you haven't read it yet, give it a try. And it I mean, you'll blow through this in an afternoon.

What a great character. You're going to be rooting for this character even though there's a lot of times when you're reading it you're like, "I don't know if I should root for John Wayne Cleaver, and yet for some reason I absolutely am.

This long forgotten lore as the mystery starting to unravel, you start to see that it's all chock-a-block full of Lovecraft's pantheon. You've got all the cosmic horror tropes in there.

It has Robert McCammon's prose, so you know it's just going to just suck you right in like it's a freaking pit that you can't climb out of. The best female villain I'm telling you, it's up there with Wilkes in Misery.

This is a great progression epic fantasy story with a wonderful horror undertone to it. If you love watching a hero's journey from the beginning as he takes step by step and grows stronger and stronger, this is the book for you, and it kicks off a series.

This is a book that aren't that isn't on a lot of people's all-time favorite Stephen King list. It's on mine. This is Stephen King writing a love letter to cosmic horror.

This is that amazingly creepy coming-of-age story. That line when you're just coming into adulthood and your friends are coming on that journey with you and things are never going to be the same.

It's absolutely gut-wrenching family drama at the same time. It's just becomes this dark fairy tale that you get sucked into, and there's such this amazing dividing line between the real New York City and this dark fairy tale world that you just slip in and out of as Victor LaValle walks this tightrope between the both, and it's just such a magical read.

So, it starts out as an amazing historical drama and it takes it a this dark turn that you don't see coming, but once it hits, oh, there's no way to pull up, man. You are all in. You are not going to pull up out of this dive.