Hi all! So I desperately jockeyed to get picked to host my books clubs October meeting and now I’m (definitely) overthinking my book pick! I am a big horror person and regularly listen to horror podcasts and watch horror movies alone for fun. The girls in my book club have been picking cutesy romances (Emily Henry, Taylor Jenkins Reid) and then we just did a thriller (Frieda McFadden) that some of them were really scared of (I am at a loss as to why). I guess I want something slightly scary and Halloweeny but I don’t want to scare these girls off completely! I just read How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix and thought it was a little flat but maybe there’s a better pick of his? Can’t wait to see what you guys can suggest!
by teelee90
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*The Thief of Always* by Clive Barker
Harvest Home by Tom Tryon blew my mind.
It’s definitely got the Halloween vibes but fair warning- it gets very, very disturbing.
Professor Dowell’s Head by Alexander Belyaev, a Russian horror classic about an insane surgeon and his hospital of horrors.
cackle by rachel harrison!!
it’s witchy but not necessarily halloween-y but it’s not very scary and it’s an easy read. I’m a big baby and this was a super fun story for me (if you look this up on goodreads it says best horror book of the year or something and I promise it’s NOT horror lol – it’s like kind of spooky chick lit).
it’s about a woman going through a major breakup, she moves to a new tiny lil town and befriends a ~mysterious local~ Weird stuff starts happening to/around her and she has to decide to return to her old life, or embrace new changes.
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (dorky guy accidentally becomes the embodiment of death on earth the same day he becomes a single dad, hilarious, also sweet, not scary)
Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox (a vampire copes with the fact that feeding on tourists with a belly full of fast food makes for a very fat vampire, funny, not scary at all)