This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is a Halloween freebie. Instead of going for creepy recommendations of books I’ve read, I am going to post my top ten scary books on my TBR that I’ve been wanting to read for ages but haven’t yet. I hope the guilty conscience helps me get onto these…
- Sarah Lotz – The Three
- Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House
- David Wong – John Dies at the End
- Helen Oyeyemi – White is for Witching
- Frances Hardinge – Cuckoo Song
- Mercedes M. Yardley – Pretty Little Dead Girls
- Lisa Goldstein – The Uncertain Places
- Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves
- Robert Jackson Bennett – American Elsewhere
- Bram Stoker – Dracula
Some of these books I’ve started, some I’m reading right now (House of Leaves has been next to my bed for over a year but it takes a lot of concentration which I don’t have in the evenings), but all of them are must reads for me. I’ve been putting them off for far too long.
I’m already very behind on most of my challenges for the year so there’s no time to catch up on all of these, but I plan to squeeze one creepy book from this list into next week. You know, because Halloween.
I think I’d love to read Cuckoo Song 🙂
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The Three is awesome. I may check out House of Leaves, sounds interesting.
My Halloween TTT: https://samwhitehousewriter.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/top-ten-tuesday-halloween-top-ten-fictional-fighters-of-evil/
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The Three is great! Has some very creepy kids 😉
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Ok, you all have convinced me.
I started The Three last night and – holy shit, that opening chapter is terrifying! I’ll need some Disney movies after reading this book.
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Such an inersting list. I’ve been meaning to read Dracula and The Haunting of Hill HOuse for ages too.
The first cover The Three is amazing 🙂
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