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part 367 bears and wolves oh my

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

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It's time for the 31 Days of Meme Halloween! A month of ghouls and ghosts and nightmare monsters! A month of dastardly Halloween discussions, petrifying Halloween picspams, and as always, scary streams.

Who doesn't love to curl up with a nice, spooky book during October? Especially if the natural ambiance is just right--crisp air seeping ever so slightly through the window, a calm silence reigning over the cool autumn night, the pervading fear that if you don't make sure your feet are tucked into the blanket that something will grab them with its sharp claws and drag you underneath the bed?

Are you reading any spooky books this October? Have you read any good scary books so far this year? Looking for anything new and exciting? I'll be posting a list of some of the highlights of 2018's new horror novels, but please do share your own reading selections (old, new, borrowed or blue!) too!

If you're looking for something new, maybe one of these will tingle your spine!

The Ghost Notebooks by Ben Dolnick

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum.

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

The members of the ill-fated Donner Party are starving, desperate, and driven to the brink of madness as they wonder who, or what, could be behind a growing rash of disappearings among their rank: "What if there is something waiting in the mountains? Something disturbing and diseased... and very hungry?"

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

A young girl taken in by the wealthy Frankenstein family must make herself indespinsible to their brooding son, Victor, in order to stay off the streets. As the years pass, Victor becomes more volatile and Elizabeth must take more drastic measures to ensure she survives.

The Wrong Girl (Return to Fear Street) by R.L. Stine

Poppy Miller swears she will get payback for Jack Sabers’s cruel prank that humiliated her in front of all her friends. Then her classmates start turning up dead. All eyes are on Poppy. Is Poppy being framed? Or did the kids of Shadyside High mess with the wrong girl?

The Last Time I Lied: A Novel by RileY Sager

A young woman returns the summer camp where 3 of her fellow-campers disappeared 15 yeras before at the behest of the wealthy new owner, who is desperate for an on-site painting instructor. As she struggles with the figurative ghosts of her childhood, disturbing truths begin to surface about her missing friends--and the camp itself.

The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox

In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters—Catherine, Lydia and Emeline—flee Boston for their new country home, Willow Hall. The estate seems sleepy and idyllic. But a subtle menace creeps into the atmosphere, remnants of a dark history that call to Lydia, and to the youngest, Emeline. All three daughters will be irrevocably changed by what follows, but none more than Lydia, who must draw on a power she never knew she possessed if she wants to protect those she loves.

Dracul by J.D. Barker

It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here. [Inspired by the notes and texts left behind by Bram Stoker]

In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt

In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman in the forest. Then everything changes.

Oooo that last one looks really good

I have high hopes for it!

thanks for these!

Np!

/notes down a lot of these

Don't they all sound lovely! Any 1 or 2 that stick out in particular?

I'm rereading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson! Mainly to get over my disappointment that the Netflix series isn't an actual adaptation of the novel.

It's a classic, if you haven't read it and you love spooky ghost novels, you definitely should!

One of my favorite quotes from the book:

"Am I walking towards something I should be running away from?"

It's such a gorgeous, somber book. Have you seen the 1960s movie? It captured the oppressive feeling very well, even if it left out a few of my favorite moments.

I think I'm going to try to read a bunch of the Fear Street and Christopher Pike books I've picked up this year! Light reading, won't take a lot of mental effort, lol. Plus maybe a few non-fiction books about horror related topics.

Feeeaaar Streeeet!!

That sounds fun! I may do something similar! though with just FS, not Pike. Any favorite books you picked up from either series?

i have the truth of all things, angelica: a ghost story, the tenant, and hell house on my nook, all never-before-read

i always have a struggle at the beginning of reading ebooks because then i'm juggling whether i should keep to that format or splurge on a physical copy. i feel like i'm called to do so with hell house just because basically the first sentence is a bronte callout. (plus my version has huge distracting paragraphing so)

Those sound very interesting!

I have trouble reading ebooks so I try to get physical copies if I can. Are they maybe available from your local library to save on ghosts?

to save on ghosts?

t...to save on ghosts?... :O

baha, that is a good idea. hrrm hrrm. did you ever see the legend of hell house movie?

btw miss witch, i was out last weekend and saw an art print of a vintage-looking lovely witch with a little owl resting on her broom and it made me think of you. i wish i'd bought it ;A; but it wasn't cheap and it was my first time going to a new age witchy kind of shop afterwards, so i didn't want to spend a lot at my first stop in case there was more i'd like elsewhere. and then that first shop was closed by the time we got out of the other store.

I just finished The Cabin at the End of the World and it is excellent, 100% recommended.

A married gay couple and their young adopted daughter are vacationing at a remote cabin without cell service, when four strangers with very strange weapons come knocking with a promise not to hurt them... and the humble request that one of them should be willingly sacrificed by the other two in order to prevent the end of the world.

The rest of the book occurs over a very short amount of time, so almost anything else I could add would be spoilers, but just trust me this is a hell of a ride and a definite one-sitting rush read kind of book.

That said, I will say the ending may be divisive; I loved it and was surprised by the number of people who totally hated it in the amazon reviews.

Also, I am annoyed by whoever the editor is; there were at minimum four errors that I caught. Missing word, wrong tense, a couple straight up spellcheck typos. It doesn't distract from the pleasure of reading the story, but this really shouldn't be happening in a professional publication.

Currently reading Wolf Winter (the one by Cecilia Ekbäck, yes I totally copy-pasted to get that ä; there are several other novels that share this title), not quite horror but still kind of in the spirit of the season, a bleak slice-of-life about murder and hardship among subsistence farmers in 18th century Swedish Lapland. The kind of unrelentingly cold book that makes you feel extra cozy with the warm glow of schadenfreude!

But seriously, it's very good. And, it's the sort of historical novel perspective that is fairly rare and which I personally really crave more of: the story of the day-to-day struggles of the common people, without riches or glamor or amazing talents or connections to famous people/events. Trying to scrape by to next year is often equally pressing a concern as, you know, not getting murdered by the apparently local serial killer.

bleak slice-of-life about murder and hardship among subsistence farmers in 18th century Swedish Lapland

Holy shit. I'm going to have to read this one immediately.

[/slaps Wolf Winter onto his to-read list]

Thanks for the rec, anon.

I've heard such mixed things about the Cabin at the End of the World! I will give it a try, though.

That first book sounds really interesting. Thes econd one definitely has a creepy vibe, it seems like.

You know I almost put Cabin at the End of the World on my list above, but the reviews were so polarizing and then I closed the tab and forgot about it. It's available at my library in a few weeks, guess I should give it a go after all.

Oh no @ the errors! That can take you right out of a book...

'Wolf Winter' sounds intriguing!

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