If you are anything like me, Halloween is the most magical time of the year. Come August, when I can no longer control my obsession, every movie I watch or book I read revolves around ghouls, vampires, werewolves, and witches. With only about 10 weeks to revel in the spookiness, and it still be considered socially acceptable, starting early with your reading list is a must! I’ve compiled a few of my go-to books for the Halloween-obsessed. Leave a comment if there are any books that you’d add to the list!
1. Practical Magic
“The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.” -Alice Hoffman
2. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.” – Shirley Jackson
3. NOS4A2
“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.” – Joe Hill
4. Hell House
“If you only knew the beauty which awaits you, Daniel. If you only knew how lovely are the realms which lie beyond this house. Would you keep yourself locked in a barren cell when all the beauties of the universe await you on the outside?” – Richard Matheson
5. Thirsty
“People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can’t see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.” ― M.T. Anderson
6. Helter Skelter
“Since we place so much value on human life, why do we glorify, in a perverse sort of way, the extinguishment of life? The answer to that question, whatever it is, is at least a partial answer to why people continue to be fascinated by Hitler, Jack the Ripper—Manson.” ― Vincent Bugliosi
7. A Head Full of Ghosts
“On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.” – Paul Tremblay
8. The House of Small Shadows
“The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.” – Adam Nevill
9. The Witches of Eastwick
“Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.” -John Updike
10. Let the Right One In
“-there was something in her, something that was…pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.” – John Ajvide Lindqvist
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11. Meddling Kids
“They walked out into the first morning after the apocalypse – a day that had just barged in sweaty and unkempt like a late commuter, asking, Anything happen while I was out?” – Edgar Cantero
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes
“The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries.” – Ray Bradbury
13. Frankenstein
“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.” – Mary Shelley
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