Any Halloween reading suggestions?

[Dave Vicks]

I usually read HP LOVECRAFT.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I usually read HP LOVECRAFT.

MR James has a lovely collection out

 

[Foxbat]

Ray Bradbury’s The October Country

 

[BAYLOR]

The Dead of Night - The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions

 

[tobl]

ray bradbury the halloween tree

 

[BAYLOR]

Adrift on the Haunted Seas( The Best Short Stores of William Hope Hodgson) He's always good for a read on Halloween.

 

[Randy M.]

Some really good suggestions above. Here are a few others.

The Bone Key by Sarah Monette. Her purpose was to merge M. R. James and H. P. Lovecraft. If not as disturbing as either of those writers' work, the stories in this collection are still fun, and good reading for October and Halloween.

More hardcore: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge. Takes place around Halloween and focuses on what's needed for a good harvest. Not really Lovecraftian, but rather like Bradbury influenced.

More literary: The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan. Ghost story told from perspective of teens who had died a previous Halloween. Bradbury influenced, but darker than most of Bradbury's work I've read.

More recent: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Not exactly Halloween time, but autumnal. Gothic haunted house (sort of) tale with links to Lovecraftian doing. (Moreno-Garcia edited an anthology of HPL-ish works by women.)

Also Lovecraftian: Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell. One of the more disturbing books I've read. A long gone silent film star's work has a bad effect on a film critic. There is a Lovecraftian link so understated it's easy to miss.

Randy M.

 

[BAYLOR]

Wetbones by John Shirley

 

[.matthew.]

The Felix Castor series by Mike Carey was pretty good (although it did start weaker). Less Halloween horror but for those into the whole detective PI thing, it's a good shout for the season (he's an exorcist).

 

[BAYLOR]

The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell

 

[Dave Vicks]

Wasn't there a horror novel about a ship stuck in Ice?
THE CAR is a good horror novel.

 

[Montero]

Not read Lovecraft, so don't have him for calibration, however
Roger Zelazny's A Night in Lonesome October might fit the bill in several ways.

 

[Dave Vicks]

Hark Who Goes There? By John W. Campbell.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Not quite horror, but good for Halloween nonetheless.

You can't go wrong with the classics, so I recommend Frankenstein as well.

 

[Vince W]

Dark Matter by Garfield Reeves-Stevens. I don't read much horror but I quite enjoyed this one.

 

[Dave Vicks]

DARK CITY might make a good Art Deco
Halloween film.

 

[Randy M.]

DARK CITY might make a good Art Deco
Halloween film.

Pair it with The Black Cat (1934) with Karloff and Lugosi, which was very much an Art Deco setting.

On the reading front, Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year. It's a little Bradbury-like. Not hard-core horror, but really a good story of kids working together to face a threat, and in that rather like Something Wicked this way Comes.

Randy M.

 

[BAYLOR]

Escardy Gap by James Lovegroave and Peter Crother

 

[dask]

I’m reading Poe right now.

 

[Vince W]

I’m reading Poe right now.

I hope your Poe reading improves.