20 Authors to Read During the Halloween Season
1. Washington Irving
Check out: The Sketch Book (1920) which includes short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”
2. Bram Stoker
Check out: Dracula (1897), The Lair of the White Worm (1911)
3. Max Brooks
Check out: Zombie Survival Guide (2003), World War Z (2007)
4. Mary Shelley
Check out: Frankenstein (1818)
5. Robert Louis Stevenson
Check out: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
6. Edgar Allen Poe
Check out: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1839), The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
7. Steven King
Check out: Salem’s Lot (1975), The Shining (1977)
8. Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Check out: The Strain (2009), The Fall (2010), The Night Eternal (2011)
9. David Wellington
Check out: 13 Bullets (2007), Monster Island (2006), Frostbite (2009)
10. Ira Levin
Check out: Rosemary’s Baby (1967), Slither (1991)
11. Daphne du Maurier
Check out: Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938) and Don’t Look Now (1970)
12. Charlaine Harris
Check out: Dead Until Dark (2001), Real Murders (1990)
13. Anne Rice
Check out: Interview with the Vampire (1976), The Witching Hour (1990)
14. Richard Matheson
Check out: Long Distance Call (1953), I am Legend (1954), Hell House (1971)
15. Robert Bloch
Check out: Black Bargain (1942), Psycho (1959)
16. Sheridan Le Fanu
Check out: Uncle Silas (1864), In a Glass Darkly (1872), Carmilla (1872)
17. Elizabeth Kostova
Check out: The Historian (2005)
18. G.W.M. Reynolds
Check out: Faust (1846), Wagner the Werewolf (1847) and The Necromancer (1857)
19. Oscar Wilde
Check out: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
20. William Peter Blatty
Check out: The Exorcist (1971)
I am going to celebrate Halloween with a few of these now – thank you!
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That’s awesome!
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There needs to be some Lovecraft on this list.
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Yeah there were a lot more I could have added but I had to stop somewhere lol
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You should’ve started with him!
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I promise to put him on next year’s list!
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Nice list! I also like ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ (Seth Grahame-Smith), but I don’t like his treatment of ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’.
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I am Legend is one of my favorite books of all time. If you haven’t read it, READ IT
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I’ll have to check these out!
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Reblogged this on The Stoic Squirm.
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Anne Rice is such an amazing writer, will def read something of hers again!
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We have The Historian in a local book club read. I am yet to receive my copy though.
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