Omegaling’s Halloween Reading List

Omegaling’s Halloween Reading List

Autumn is, without question, my favorite time of year.  The weather finally begins to cool, the air is perfumed by the scent of crisping leaves and wood smoke, stick-to-your-ribs dinners simmer on stove tops, the spicy-sweet taste of pumpkin tickles our palates, and, of course, it marks the coming of Halloween.  And what better way than to spend those darkening nights, where the shadows begin to move as though they’ve taken on a life of their own and leaves scatter in the wind as though fleeing some unseen threat, than curled up under a warm blanket with a hot drink, reading a good horror story?

Here is a list of my favorite Halloween reads compiled from over a number of years.  Hopefully you’ll be able to find some favorites among them as well.

Books of Halloweens Past

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

The Nevermore Trilogy by Kelly Creagh

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Horns by Joe Hill

The Devouring by Simon Holt

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan Howard

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Fang Girl by Helen Keeble

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, by John Kelly

Twelve by Jasper Kent

The Shining by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co.) by Jonathan Stroud

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

Affinity by Sarah Waters

My 2017 Reading List

The Deep by Nick Cutter

The Devil in the White City by Tony Goldwyn

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

For Halloweens to Come

Shutter by Courtney Alameda

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

Darkhouse by Karina Halle

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

The Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft

The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

Unspoken by Sarah Lees Brennan

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

Rawblood by Catriona Ward

A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

Abomination by Gary Whitta

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf

John Dies at the End by John Wong

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff