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The theme for our October group read will be YOUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN READ. Please, please read the rules and check to see if your nomination has been read before suggesting them. Previous group reads and listens are not eligible. Authors may not nominate their own works. Please link to your nomination. You can NOT do this in the app! Please keep your suggestions to 2 max. Feel free to +1 as many as you like. Thank you and Happy Spooky Season!

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PREVIOUS GROUP READS/LISTENS
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What’s the theme??

Previous group reads are NOT eligible. Please check this list before nominating.

PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE

14 by Peter Clines

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatmans' Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke

Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill

The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

You Like it Darker by Stephen King

Judy Cadena wrote: "What’s the theme??"

"The theme for our October group read will be YOUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN READ"

T. E. D. Klein - DARK GODS

Playground by Aron Beauregard

The Sundown Motel by Simone St James! Perfect Halloween ghost story.

Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell from 1980. One of the scariest southern Gothic revenge horror books I ever read.

Harvest Moon

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

I nominate

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Ascension by Nicholas Binge

Quanisha wrote: "FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven"

Previous group read. Not eligible. Please read posts 1 and 3 before nominating.

+1 Harvest Moon

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I nominate

The Wendigo by Kelsey Nichols

Vampire$ by John Steakley

Hex by Robert Olde Heuvelt!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti

1) The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett--fabulous, intensely creepy, plenty of substance, folk horror

2) Diavola by Jennifer Thorne--psychological & straight up haunting horror

The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition by William Peter Blatty

+1 Harvest Moon
+1 A Night in the Lonesome October
+1 The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition

Hex

Piñata
or
Dark Harvest

(both are available from Kindle Unlimited, too)

+1 The Dark Between the Trees
+1 Stolen Tongues

+1 Harvest Moon

The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve

+1 The Sun Down Motel

Em wrote: "
2) Diavola by Jennifer Thorne--psychological & straight up haunting horror"

This is literally a current group read already.

Super Halloweeny:

The Night Country

All Hallows - Christopher Golden

I nominate:

Psycho

+1 Stolen Tongues. I hear good things on that one.
+1 Hex. That is equally creepy and devastating.

I nominate by Ramsey Campbell.

I would also like to nominate by Lisa Tuttle as another "Paperbacks from Hell" choice.

+1 A Night in the Lonesome October

I nominate The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones :)

+1 The Exorcist

I'd like to nominate:

- A Sliver of Darkness
- Red Rabbit

+1 Stolen Tongues
+1 Dark Harvest

+1 for Hex

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

+1 Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Dark Harvest!

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

+1 All Hallows - Christopher Golden

October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween by Richard Chinas (collection of author contributions)

*Richard Chizmar (lol darn autocorrect!)

+1 The Willows