The gaping hole in my plan to regale you with bone-chilling reading ideas for the scary season revealed itself when I examined my book shelf and realised I don't actually read a lot of horror. Then I looked over at The Man's bookshelf and discovered it was doing it's very best impression of the 'Horror' section at Dymocks - it is a Stephen King / Clive Barker emporium. I knew I'd have to recruit The Man's horror expertise to my cause - between us, surely, we would have all our horror bases covered.
Consequently, we both came up with our Top 5 horror books and present them for you here:
Top 5 Horror Picks From My Bookshelf
1. Dracula - Bram Stoker
2. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
3. Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
4. Fevre Dream - George R R Martin
5. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Top 5 Horror Picks From The Man's Bookshelf1. The Shining - Stephen King
2. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
3. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
4. Tales of The Unexpected - Roald Dahl
5. The Last Battle - CS Lewis
I'm planning to knock over the last few chapters of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest this weekend, and then I'll be embarking on my own Halloween reading. This year I've picked Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which I really hope lives up to the hype.
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An unlikely addition, but there si a scene in Treasure Island where Pew is making his way along the clifftop to the Benbow Inn, and all you can hear is the 'tap, tap, tap' of his cane, as Jim and his mother hide.
I was TERRIFIED when I read it.
Ah yes - and while we're on the subject of pirates, I never quite got over that scene in The Coral Island where a pirate needlessly lobs a cat into the sea. Pirates: all round unsavoury guys.
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