HELLO.
IT'S NEARLY HALLOWEEN AND I AM EXCITED. I love Halloween. It's like Spooky Christmas to me and I am all about it and to help get me in the mood for Halloween, I know I like to spend the week reading some spooky as heck books. SPOOKY AS HECK, I SAY. So I thought I would share with you, dear readers, some of my favourite spooky Halloween books to help us BOTH get into the spirit of Halloween. But I am always in the spirit of Halloween. THIS IS MY TIME.
HERE ARE SOME BOOKS:
The Name of The Star by Maureen Johnson
We start this list of Halloween books with the most wonderfully creepy and very good The Name of the Star. The best book in the series (out of two, so not much competition...) The Name of the Star combines Johnson's charm with her creepiness. Also, JACK THE RIPPER BUT GHOSTS. Now you're interested. If you haven't already read it.
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
This is Not a Test is the book I read for Halloween last year and it is MY FAVOURITE. Zombies. High schoolers. High schoolers trapped in a high school with zombies. EMOTIONS. DRAMA. ZOMBIES. How much spookier can you get. Really.
The Night Itself by Zoe Marriott
Okay, so The Night Itself isn't actively scary, but the Nekomata is one of the creepier monsters in an urban fantasy that I've read and I just like this series a lot and it seems Halloweeny to me.
The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Again, not an actively scary book, or creepy really, but LOOK at that cover. It just screams Halloween to me. Halloween is not just about being scared, guys. The spirit of Halloween takes many forms and some of them are YA urban fantasies about goths and vampires.
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Steifvater

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Kind of a no brainer, really. Anna Dressed in Blood is pretty much THE YA horror. Or it was when it came out. I'm not really up with the times these days I don't really know what's happening on the YA horror scene but this book is gross (SHE RIPS A MAN IN HALF IT'S AMAZING) and creepy. And just look at that spooky cover. So spooky.
Say Her Name by James Dawson (but Hollow Pike is pretty spooky tooooo)

Dead Romantic by C J Skuse
Do you like Frankenstein? Do you like Weird Science? Do you like kind of weird but also kind of funny books with excellent covers about girls who try to construct the perfect boy and also adorable dog companions? LOOK NO FURTHER.
CORALINE BY NEIL GAIMAN SO SPOOKY
'Cicely, why is Coraline in all caps when the rest of the book titles are normal and also Neil Gaiman's name is not Neil Gaiman So Spooky are you okay?'
To answer the question imaginary you has just posed to me, no. I am not okay.
Read Coraline, and you, too, can not be okay.
*hisses at the cover* THIS BOOK IS NIGHTMARES
The Diviners by Libba Bray

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
I'm glad you said that, imaginary audience! Correct, Good Omens is NOT scary. It is a funny apocalypse book about the four horsemen and some children that noone I've even spoken to who has read the book actually cares about and an Angel and a Demon that everyone cares about. It's the best. And to me it screams Halloween, and this is my list and I'll do what I want with it.
Also I was trying to think of a 13th book to put on this list because I am lame like that and this was all I could think of.
HAPPY HALLO-FRICKING-WEEK MOTHERFRICKERS
The Raven Cycle series is phenomenal. I'm currently reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue and I'm so hooked!
ReplyDeleteI actually didn't like Coraline and couldn't finish it, but I have watched part of the film and was so creeped out by it! Woah!
Brilliant post, Cicely! This is one of my favourites of yours!