2. Here at the Xlibris offices, that feeling is in
the air! The leaves are falling, decorations
are up, and a new Paranormal Activitymovie is 6) The Stand by Stephen King – Remember what
hitting theaters. Halloween is here! we said about King filling this entire list?
We’ll give him two spots. King’s apocalyptic
Despite the undeniable pleasure of Halloween tale of good versus evil is truly one of his
parties and candy-gathering, one of the great masterpieces.
joys of the season is curling up at night with
a horror or suspense novel. Here then, in no 7) I am Legend by Richard Matheson – Imagine
particular order, are ten blood-curdling reads being the last human on Earth, while the rest
to keep you up at night! of the population has been turned to vampires.
Or why imagine it, when you can read Matheson’s
1) The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty – Like page-turner?
the film it inspired, Blatty’s story of demonic
possession and supernatural horror is a 8) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley –
modern classic. [Trivia question: What’s the Like Dracula, no introduction is required here.
name of the main spirit that possesses Regan? Shelley’s classic about the man-made creature
Answer: the Assyrian and Babylonian demon gave life to one of the iconic characters of
Pazuzu.] horror.
2) It by Stephen King – King’s work could fill 9) Phantoms by Dean Koontz – What happened
this list, and choosing one is largely a matter to the hundreds of residents of Snowfield,
of personal preference. We’ll go with It, about a California? You’ll have to read Koontz’s
group of friends returning to their hometown Halloween favorite to find out!
to face the horror they first encountered as
children. 10) Various stories and poems by Edgar Allan
Poe – No Halloween list would be complete
3) Ghost Story by Peter Straub – Four aging without Poe. His stories and poems stand on
men are haunted by something they did in their their own as suspense and horror fiction, but
youth. The past won’t stay buried in Peter have also been the inspiration for many of the
Straub’s ghost tale. eight authors above.
4) Dracula by Bram Stoker – This one almost That should be enough to keep you busy this
needs no introduction. Dracula almost single- Halloween season! Do you have your own tale of
handedly created the vampire sub-genre, and ghosts, monsters, or things that go “bump” in
you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to read the the night? If so, why keep it to yourself?
classic that started it all. By self-publishing with Xlibris, you can share
the terror with the rest of the world!
5) The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – This
one neatly bookends Stoker’s Dracula. Kostova’s
debut novel is a thrilling story about a
modern search for Vlad the Impaler.
Haunted reads
3. Delivers to the Literary
Genre of Horror with a
Masterfully Written
Tale, July 7, 2012 By
Diane Gibson
– Amazon Reviews
About the Author: Overview:
Drew Hardy A Southern Horror
brilliantly Story unfolds in
captures small town page-turning
life and the suspense as it
horrors faced by starkly reveals the
the "Hatcher" story of a family
family. and a town wrenched
apart by obsession
and horror.
Haunted reads
4.
About the Author: Overview:
Nino Lama is a Sacrificial Lamb—a
trial attorney Legal Thriller is
practicing in likely the most fast
partnership with paced novel to be
his son, Ciano, in found anywhere..
Ithaca, New York.
No Lack Of Action Here, July 3, 2008
By Sidney Grayling (Ithaca, NY)
– Amazon Reviews
Haunted reads
5. From morbidly sweet to
nightmarishly
horrifying, March 22,
2008 By J. Hill "El
Barbaroja"
– Amazon Reviews
About the Author:
Brian Fatah Steele Overview:
is probably sitting Seek out the mythic
in front of the and the macabre in
computer with a this collection of
cigarette in his tales about Gods &
mouth, drinking Monsters, Angels &
coffee and listening Demons, and the humans
to some pretentious caught somewhere in
music you've never the middle.
heard of.
Haunted reads
6.
About the Author: Overview:
There aren’t too many
Berlinda was born in
humans who go
Sydney in 1967; she
through their daily
spent her childhood
lives aware that
travelling Australia
there are two worlds
with her family. She
here, the human
is married with three
existence and the
children and has
Demons. Demon are
spent her married life
everywhere, some even
travelling Australia
live amongst humans.
with her husband of
20 years.
“Novel explores another World
of Magic, Demons, and Struggle
for Power,” May 05, 2012 Haunted reads
– Yahoo Daily News
7.
About the Author:
A Matter of Privacy, Overview:
Hunter says, “I hope “Oh, to be a fly on the
the suspense does wall.” What would your
not keep you up all life be like if you
night.” To learn could eavesdrop on
more about this your boss’s
extraordinary conversation? Listen
individual, Hunter to the banter at your
Silvastorm, visit teenager’s party?
his website at
www.huntersilvastor
m.com
“A Matter of Privacy” is an exceptional
tale. At the end of each and every chapter,
I couldn’t turn the page fast enough.”,
Haunted reads
– April Broome
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