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.
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
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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
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
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co.) by Jonathan Stroud
This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
The Devil in the White City by Tony Goldwyn
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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
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