Halloween Reads?

[cheese]

Anybody reading anything just because it's October? I was in the book store and I picked up a copy of The Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a Halloween treat to myself. Great book so far! I love short horror stories.

 

[SharonT]

Just downloaded "The Box - Uncanny Stories" by Richard Matheson from Audible. Love to listen to horror stories.

 

[Anamnesis]

October's an all-horror month for me. Right now I'm in the middle of Edward Lee's Incubi and Dan Simmons' Children of the Night.

 

[lenny nero]

How are you liking Incubi? I didn't think it was that great, however Succubi is a fun read, check that one out if you get the chance. I didn't dig Children of the Night that much either. My October reading has been entirely taken up by the first 2 volumes of The Strain trilogy.

 

[Will]

It's Halloween all year round on my bookshelf...

 

[Anamnesis]

How are you liking Incubi? I didn't think it was that great, however Succubi is a fun read, check that one out if you get the chance. I didn't dig Children of the Night that much either. My October reading has been entirely taken up by the first 2 volumes of The Strain trilogy.

So far I like Incubi. The dream sequence with

Spoiler

that melting corpse

was so gruesome. He really has a knack for thinking up nasty situations. I think I'll try Lucifer's Lottery next.
I'm also enjoying CotN as well, even though it feels more sci-fi than horror.

 

[lenny nero]

Yes, Lee does go for the gross out! Of those 4 books that he wrote that take place in hell, City Infernal and Lucifer's Lottery are the best.

 

[mmyap]

October is most definitely dedicated to chillers. I started with Adam Nevill's Banquet Of The Damned. I'm now in John Harwoods The Seance. Next is Susan Hill's A Woman In Black. Then comes The Chronological Man by Andrew Mayne. I may still be working my way through the list at Thanksgiving. So many books, so little time.

 

[Fantasy Moon]

I've been reading The Strain trilogy as well, and working on The Vampire Archives this month.

 

[cheese]

Finished the Doyle. Fantastic stories. I really like the way he writes.

Moving on to Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy.

 

[Cenere]

I have considered collecting some of Edgar Allan Poe's works and reading them on Halloween night. His solitary aptitude can bestow quite a frightful demeanor and I find his allegory purely enticing.