Our Halloween Horror Reading Recommendations

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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