The Ultimate Halloween Reading List

it's kind of predictable but also through its setting and through Emily Carol's brilliant artwork it still feels quite a unique experience even if it doesn't do anything new story-wise

this is a novel that examines the creepiness of mundanity ordinary Suburban life but off-kilter as suburban life so often is

honestly I didn't find this book scary at all but it is a really fun time

this is Frankenstein if it was overtly gay and about plants and I love this book so much it is brilliantly campy brilliantly Gothic and very dark

boys in the valley by Philip frassi is another favorite of mine This is actually the novel that has probably frightened me the most

a book that has stayed with me since the day I read it and has quickly become one of my favorite horror novels is Brother by Ana alborn I so adore this novel

like I said this is my favorite horror novel I love this more than I can say it is queer it is clever it is fun it is everything I love about good horror

it's genuinely frightening this is a book with some really creepy moments especially in the very first chapter when our protagonist who is a young teenage girl is sure that there is something haunting her bedroom something under her bed

things go truly off the rails in a really fun really unhinged and very gory way I thoroughly enjoyed this

it's also a brilliantly allegorical novel that explores Womanhood identity autonomy queer culture and of course immigration

this is a brilliantly clever work of literary Fiction

I love this book more than I can ever say and I say that a lot I talk about it a lot so let's move on Frankenstein is the best thing that's ever been made by any person ever fact

I was so impressed with how this novel handles its subject matter while also being a very fun summer camp slasher story

Hell Followed With Us is fantastic a wonderful work of queer horror fiction

this novel is so much fun and it ends without spoiling anything too specifically with basically a boss fight I was so entertained and enthralled by this thing this is my favorite Grady Hendrick novel

this is one of the smartest books to come out in the last year or so I was hypnotized by it

Grant Morrison is a genius Chris Burnham's art is grotesque and wonderful they are a dream team

this is a very unsettling novel I can't say I enjoyed it but it is really good

I am very excited to reread this series over the Halloween period I love this comic book so much

if you love folk horror and Gothic Horror in particular this collection is a perfect amalgamation of those two things every single story in here is a gem

this is a wonderful work of kind of cosmic kind of body kind of monster horror it is all three of those and it's so satisfying to read

what makes this so compelling is the fact that yeah it's a good ghost story it's a good Haunted House story but it's also a very compelling look into the psyche of someone who is lost and alone and Confused

this is a brilliantly complex and wonderfully haunting work of fiction it's also pretty dense and that gives you time to really sink into it for better or Worse

this is a really clever and satisfying vampire story

the spirit Bears its teeth is my personal favorite Andrew Joseph white novel

I love every single Tale in both of these books they are dark and twisted and frightening they are clever they are queer and they come at horror from so many different angles

there are five stories in here and every single one of them will stay with you the first one in particular I have never ever forgotten it is really chilling

I love every single Tale in both of these books they are dark and twisted and frightening they are clever they are queer and they come at horror from so many different angles

whisper by Chang Yuko is an incredible work of Taiwanese ghost fiction