Horror Aficionados discussion

'Tis the season to be spooky!
As we enter every horror fan's favorite time of the year, your fiend-ly neighborhood mods have come up with a Halloween reading challenge.

You can sign up here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

The challenge will be to read horror stories that meet one of the listed Halloween related subjects, either in title, theme or even book cover. Those topics are:

Bat
Cat
Ghost
Graveyard
Haunted Attraction/House
Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin
Monster
Scarecrow
Treats
Tricks
Witch
Zombie

Awesome!!!!!!!!! 🎃🍂🍁🤡🐺🧟‍♀️ I’m going to try to do them all or do multiples of a few of them 😳

✅🎃Bat - 🎃✅
🎃✅Cat - 🎃✅
✅🎃Ghost - 🎃✅ 🎃✅ ✅🎃
🎃✅Graveyard - ✅🎃
🎃✅Haunted Attraction/House - 🎃✅
✅🎃Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin -
✅🎃Monster -
✅🎃Scarecrow -
✅🎃Treats -
🎃✅Tricks - ✅🎃 ✅🎃
🎃✅Witch - 🎃✅
🎃✅Zombie -

🎃🍁🍂🧟‍♀️🐺 - September 16 - October 31

Yay!!

Sounds like a perfect chance for Stephen King’s IT

How fun!

Looking forward to it :)

Love it!

Cool! I was going to do my own personal challenge but I will combine it with this one! You mod "fiends" are awesome! :)

I am only do three and I am reading:

Ghost -

Graveyard -

Haunted Attraction/House -

Can't wait to see what books everyone will read.
It helps me expand my already overloaded tbr! woohoo!

I’ll try

This sounds great! I think I have a zombie book on my reading list already. Can't wait for more book recommendations!

Yessssss I frikkin love Halloween

I’m not really sure what to do, but I would like to participate

Am I the only one having a hard time accessing the link?

Norma wrote: "I’m not really sure what to do, but I would like to participate"

The challenge will go live after midnight tonight. You can then go to it by clicking the link at the start of this thread to sign up.
You pick how many books you think you'll read, then create a shelf on your My Books page with 2020 Halloween Season Reading Challenge (or whatever works for you) as the title. Then, when you read a book that matches the criteria, check the box for that shelf under the dropdown menu from the Want to read/ read button.

I hope I explained that right. If not, anyone else feel free to step in and explain it correctly. :D

You can also come back to this thread to talk about the books you're reading or get ideas from other peeps.

Sounds like fun!

Sounds really fun. Thanks for the hard work as always, mods.

Thank you

This sounds like the perfect way to kick off the season!

Yay! Yay! I could not be happier! 😈👻🎃

This is awesome! Made my day!

Sounds great!!
So far mine are:
Bat:
Cat
Ghost:
Graveyard
Haunted Attraction/House:
Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin
Monster
Scarecrow:
Treats
Tricks:
Witch
Zombie
I added 5 for the challenge, but hope to read more if I can ;)

Thank you, mods! How fun! 🎃

Nice! I'm trying 3 books:

Ghost: Das Gespenst Von Canterville
Graveyard: Ghoul
Monster: Memento Monstrum (vampire, yeti, fishmonster, mummy, werewolf)
Witch: The Malan Witch
Zombie: Hollow Kingdom: Das Jahr der Krähe (I think crow is a nice Halloween subject as well)
Zombie: Zombie Dash

This sounds awesome!! Can’t wait. 🎃👻!!!

Yep, should encourage myself to get to some of those books on my to read shelf

Yay best reading time of year, I have signed up for 5

1. Ghost

2. Haunted House

3. Witch

4. Zombie

5. Witch

6. Trick

Super excited!!

I plan on reading one to meet each criteria. If anyone is looking for recommendations, here are my favorites from each category that I have read previously:

Bat:

Reaching, but there is a bat creature in it at one point.


Cat:


Ghost:


Graveyard:


Haunted Attraction/House:

Story: October Film Haunt: Under the House

Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin:

Story: The Black Pumpkin by Dean Koontz

Monster:


Scarecrow:

(Not highly recommended, but the only scarecrow novel I've read).

Treats:

(Non-fiction, if that counts).

Tricks:


Witch:


Zombie:


I'll update which ones I pick this year, if anyone is interested. Look forward to seeing what you all have in store.

My List;

- Ghost & Haunted Attraction
- Witch
- Witch

- graveyard on cover

Awesome House of Leaves here I came

Awesome! Not sure if I can actually read 5, as October brings both some needed company and a trip, but I'll try!
- Scarecrow
- Monster
- Treats/Tricks
This is Halloween by James A. Moore I just started this, and so far, it has satisfied both the Scarecrow and the Treats/Tricks! (Hmmm, are they 2 separate items?) (Finished!)

-Jack O'Lantern / Pumpkin
Hallows Eve by Al Sarrantonio will be my 2nd and possibly 3rd book. I've read the first book (last Halloween), so I've started on "Hallow's Eve," the second book in the omnibus. (And I've finished the 2nd book!)

- Ghost
- Graveyard
- Haunted Attraction/House
- Witch
The House by the Cemetery by John Everson will satisfy those 4 categories! (Finished!)

- Cats
The Cats by Nick Sharman fulfills the "Cats" category! (Finished!)

-Monster
Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson will probably be my last book, fulfilling the "Monster" category. I doubt I'll get to the Bats, but oh well, I can't do everything & take a trip down south! (Finished!)

Although I've read the 5 books I pledged, I'll continue to read this book, because I've still got 1 category unread:
- Bats!!!
Bats by William W. Johnstone.

Yahoo!!! I conquered the Halloween Challenge!!!

Yes! This is awesome - thanks to the ghastly fiends who put this together 😈🤡

I might reread This Is Halloween for mine, Karen. I loved it back in 2017. We shall see

Jason wrote: "My List;

- Ghost & Haunted Attraction
- Witch
- Witch
[bookcover:The Bell Witch: An American ..."

Jason, i’d Be willing to buddy read Sour and The Year of Witching if your interested.

Yeah deffo on the buddy read Latasha....

Oops bit keen

Should finish kin today, and I've git sour comming from Amazon should get it next week. So could start the year of witching first

For a scarecrow book, I recommend

Latasha wrote: "Jason wrote: "My List;

- Ghost & Haunted Attraction
- Witch
- Witch
[bookcover:The Bell Witch..."

Add me to the Sour buddy read! I’ve been meaning to read that!!

Cool

Does a Shark count as a Monster?

Karen wrote: "Awesome! Not sure if I can actually read 5, as October brings both some needed company and a trip, but I'll try!
This is Halloween by [author:J..."

'This is Halloween' is a great set of short stories. I highly recommend everything by James A. Moore. Hope you enjoy it.

I picked 3 for the challenge...

, by Grady Hendrix for ghosts/haunted house
, by Mira Grant. for zombies
, by Tim Meyer. for monsters

If I should complete these I'm going to do 2 more that I have waiting.

Scott wrote: "Karen wrote: "Awesome! Not sure if I can actually read 5, as October brings both some needed company and a trip, but I'll try!
[book:This is Halloween|36313942..."

I agree with you, Scott! That’s why I’m doing a reread after Karen’s post reminded me of it. I love his fantasy series too. I just forgot the name!!

Scott! I wanted to use Horrorstor for this challenge. I didn’t even think it could be used for ghost!! I was looking ghost in the title and couldn’t decide 😂🤣

Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "Scott wrote: "Karen wrote: "Awesome! Not sure if I can actually read 5, as October brings both some needed company and a trip, but I'll try!
[book:This is Hall..."

'Seven Forges' is the name of his first fantasy series, you're right it is fantastic one of my favorite fantasy series.

Scott wrote: "Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "Scott wrote: "Karen wrote: "Awesome! Not sure if I can actually read 5, as October brings both some needed company and a trip, but I'll try!
[bookcover:This is Ha..."

Yes!!! That’s it!! I have the paperbacks. Well I did the other day at any rate 😃

Yes I'm In 9/16 - 10/30

Bat
Cat

Cat on cover. Finished 10/4
Ghost

Some supernatural stuff happens. Finished 10/2
Graveyard

Murder takes place in a graveyard. Finished 9/17

Haunted Attraction/House

Wedding takes place on a Haunted Island. Finished 9/20

Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin
Monster

A character turns out to be a centuries old monster. Finished 10/10
Scarecrow

The villian is called The Scarecrow. Finished 10/6
Treats

MC owns a store and sells sweets. Finished 9/30
Tricks

People and things are not what they seem. Finished 9/18
Witch

A character is called the Black Witch cause she always wears black and she's evil. Finished 10/11
Zombie

Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ wrote: "Scott! I wanted to use Horrorstor for this challenge. I didn’t even think it could be used for ghost!! I was looking ghost in the title and couldn’t decide 😂🤣"

it can be used for ghost.

Yay!!

Now I have to find one for bat 🙄