The Book Case

Our Halloween Horror Reading Recommendations


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So we have come to the last of our horror genre shows…although we have decided we like the moniker 'dark literature’ better. We have a game-changing author to end it with (in time for Halloween): Paul Tremblay. If you read ‘dark literature’ and you haven’t devoured A Head Full of Ghosts on a dark and stormy night, RUN, do not walk, to your nearest independent bookstore. But Kate has read seven of his books (so far) and has not been disappointed in a single one. We also talk to horror writer and Professor Michael Arnzen of Seton Hill University about the courses he teaches in the dark art of writing what scares us. We hope you have enjoyed our ‘dark literature’ series….we might dip back from time to time. Happy Halloween.


Books mentioned in this week's episode:

  • A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
  • The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
  • No Sleep Til Wonderland by Paul Tremblay
  • Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye by Paul Tremblay
  • Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones
  • Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay
  • The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
  • Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
  • The Pallbearer’s Club by Paul Tremblay
  • In the Mean Time by Paul Tremblay
  • Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
  • The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay
  • Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  • Absolution by Alice McDermott
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
  • Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Stand by Stephen King
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  • Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
  • Psycho by Robert Bloch
  • The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Film by Carol Clover
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