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Anyone else here read horror? Looking for suggestions for a Halloween or fall themed book for my sister and I to read in October.

If not, what is your favorite horror? That is like 90% of what I read.8

I mostly prefer horror anthologies tbh. I think most full horror novels are too long to be really effective - short stories work much better for me. The downside is that anthology collections (like The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) can be kind of a mixed bag, but at least if a story isn't great, you wasted much less time than if an entire novel goes sideways in the last few chapters.
I really liked the horror/fantasy short story collection by Neil Gaiman back in the day but... yeah. Hasn't aged well.

We've read many anthologies! Never Whistle At Night and Out There Screaming are both great.

I'll look into them! Sorry for not having a lot of recs myself, I haven't read much in the genre lately. For what it's worth, I think I liked The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 quite a bit but no guarantees that it's actually good because it's been a hot minute since I read it.

Never Whistle At Night is wonderful! High five.

Though I like to watch horror, I read it pretty sparingly as it sticks with me more in written form, which is bad for my sleep. But I can offer really old recs that you've probably already read - It by Stephen King, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (like this one a little better than Silence of the Lambs), and Relic by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston. Also used to love Lois Duncan books as a teen, and Joan Lowery Nixon's The House on Hackman's Hill still gives me chills though it's aimed at a younger audience.

Lois Duncan books were my jam as a kid.

I don't much, but - the ultimate Halloween themed book is 'The Halloween Tree' by Ray Bradbury, and also 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. Both are, to me, excellent and fun.

I have like three 'horror' books that I like and have read and re-read, all Stephan King. Carrie, The Dead Zone, and The Stand.

I'm on my first read of The Stand and loving it. I love King's worldbuilding and attention to detail. The only downside being that I usually read in bed before going to sleep and even in modern reprints it's such a massive, unwieldy doorstop of a book. My partner laughs at me from behind his e-book on his phone while I haul this giant thing onto the pillow.

Heeeeeeee!! It is SO big, yes. I have the like...unedited version or whatever? So yes, massive.
I'm glad you're enjoying it! I loved that Stu sat down and read all of 'Watership Down' - that made me like that character a lot.

I need to find that Bradbury book. Hopefully I can tomorrow.

Most libraries have it. Good luck!!

You beat me to it with Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Heee!

I've been trying to get my hands on as many volumes of the Year's Best Horror anthology as my library can get me-- editor is Ellen Datlow and she tends to do a great job at putting anthologies together. She's also got themed ones she's edited, mostly horror and fantasy, but the Year's Best anthologies all have like, big segments of further recs, for runner up short horror but also for the best novels etc.

Best horror novels I've read lately... a lot has been short fiction, novels that stand out (none Halloween-themed but all excellent spooky season reads) were:

The Exorcist- william Peter Blatty- I didn't find it 'scary', exactly, but I found it BEAUTIFUL and like... I spent a long time digesting it? Like, every viewpoint character is in a very different story and those stories all converge on Regan and her possession etc, and it's just a really great read, but the film is sort of more condensed down around the exorcism and the novel has so much MORE before we get there.

Sundial- Catriona ward- Picked this up on a whim because I'd seen her OTHER novels recommended and that was the one my library happened to have, I'm not sure I even put it down until I'd finished it. Stayed up all hours, just riveted.

Mexican Gothic- Silvia Moreno-Garcia- vibes were Impeccable, writing was lush and gorgeous, great dread/horror

How to Sell a Haunted House- Grady Hendrix- I see people are very love it or hate it with Hendrix, I was firmly in the love camp here. Fantastic blend of the horror side and the human side.

The Only Good Indians- Stephen Graham Jones- THIS ONE THIS ONE THIS ONE oh man I loved this one. I read two of his books this past year and this one was by FAR my favorite.

A House with Good Bones- Ursula Vernon- horrified me but also had me laughing out loud at the turns of phrase.

The Outsider- Stephen King- LOVED this one, would recommend reading the Bill Hodges trilogy FIRST which is not what I did, I just grabbed it at the library thinking I was getting a standalone and read it after Mr. Mercedes but before my request came through on Finders Keepers. (and the three other recent Stephen Kings I read were his non-horror)

Bury Your Gays- Chuck Tingle- honestly this one feels like it was written solely to appeal to me in every way so your mileage may vary but it was everything to me.

I love everything by Hendrix and Kingfisher! The Only Good Indians is also fantastic. I should read Bury Your Gays soon. I enjoyed his first book.

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