#Halloween books

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Witchy Books To Read This Autumn

The House Witch by Delemhach

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

A History Of Magic and Witchcraft by Frances Timbers

The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson

Accidental Magic by Iris Beaglehole

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

A Witch's Guide To Magical Inkeeping by Sanga Mandanna

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

The Witches by Roald Dahl

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

Six Women Of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Witchfinders by Malcolm Gaskill

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

The Cupcake Witch by Melante Karsak

Every Witch Way by Madison Martin

Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper

Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

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Halloween Books 🎃

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Garfield's Ghost Stories cover art (1992)

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Happy October, Friends 🍂

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What book are you reading to celebrate Halloween?

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"Bunnicula" by Deborah and James Howe

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What’s on your October reading list? Added a few of these to my list and excited to start them soon 🎃🍂🍁

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Is my roommate a vampire or is he just weird?

Just read My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine and it was... meh. It didn’t annoy me, it didn’t gave me an ick in any way and the writing wasn’t awful so it passes the basic romance novel threshold.

But I didn’t find the characters particularly charming nor was I very interested in what was happening with the plot. I kept waiting for it to get better. I was like okay, next pages it will pick up and it kinda never did.

Also if you are going for the vampire thing: for something that is so central to the plot it’s kinda funny how little we actually go over it!

I mean if you are looking for some vampire/monster fantasy rom-com you could do worse so if that’s your thing it’s only like 300 something pages... it isn’t horrible is I’m trying to say... just a bit boring truly.

And it’s so funny to me that even though our love interest male vampire is supposed to be this cute kind marshmallow we still have to throw some scenes where he is possessive or jealous CAUSE THAT IS THE FORMULA GODDAMIT!!! It comes out of nowhere and it’s hilarious.

Also anyone who has read the second book... Is it worth it? Because part of me is like: I didn’t like this one that much and all but the other part is like vampire, Reginald maybe it’s fun?? I don’t know, tell me what you though please!

Forgot to add: The cover.... Amazing ok

Now I’m gonna read the Ex Hex by Erin Sterling because it was like less than two euros on the Kobo store so... Let’s see.

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Today’s theme are the writings of Clark Ashton Smith, a Lovecraftian writer who added to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Clark Ashton Smith wrote many short stories and I have read them all. He is a fun and creative writer and not particularly dark or nasty. All of his short stories have been reissued in the last twenty years in nice volumes, but the question is where to start. Hyberborea is an excellent starting point for reading this author, a book of short stories from his Lovecraftian mythos. The best first story to read by Clark Ashton Smith is The Seven Geases, about a hunting party that descends into problems. Below are helpful links:

Hyperborea pdf:

The Seven Geases html:

The Seven Geases YouTube reading:

Hyperborea Goodreads review:

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Currently reading 📖

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15 Books About Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

World War Z by Max Brooks

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Last by Hanna Jameson

The Stand by Stephen King

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

Writing On The Wall by Tracey Ward

Zombie Blondes by Brian James

Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney

Cell by Stephen King

Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

World Departed by Sarah Lyons Fleming

Zombie Island by Samantha Hoffman

Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers

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I love this graphic novel! It is keeping my Halloween spirit alive! 🎃

Amo este novela gráfica! Mantiene mi espíritu de Halloween viva! 🎃

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If you're looking for some indie novels to get you into the Halloween mood, let me recommend the works of my friend Ren Montgomery. She's self-published over on Amazon, and I want to get the word out for her three books.

Horror

Haunt is a period piece set in the late 1970s. It tells the story of the Stewarts, a dysfunctional family who are looking for a fresh start in a brand new housing development, but the trauma they bring with them feeds into something sinister within the house itself. Pete is an abusive alcoholic, Mae is a lapsing fundamentalist at her wits' end, and their three young girls Kelly, Robin, and Lori are just trying to get through the new school year without slitting each others' throats.

Ren explores what it means to have faith when your views don't line up with what your Church dictates, and when those in power don't have your best interest at heart. Haunt is about the ties that bind a struggling family together, for better, or more often for worse, and the pain they face while trying to break the cycle of abuse. The presence which darkens the doorstep of the Stewarts' new haunt heightens their worst impulses and brings each and every one of them to their personal breaking point.

Haunt is both terrifying and gripping, and the 70s setting permeates every aspect of the plot; it doesn't feel like a modern story with a nostalgic 1970s coat of paint over it, it feels like something straight out of the dingy, smoke-filled, no-seatbelts-or-airbags era, an oft forgotten aspect of the decade that so many authors struggle to capture on page.

Contemporary fantasy

Monsters Are We is a story about burning bridges, both accidentally and on purpose. With some relationships, when the passion is gone, you can cut your losses and go your separate ways, but Penelope Draven doesn't have that option. Her old life with Leo the soul-sucking cheater needs to come to an end so her new life can begin.

She's danced this dance before, but this time around is going to be much more difficult for two very important reasons. First, she finally has something that makes her hesitate before throwing it all away, something she wants desperately to take with her when she goes; her teenage daughter, Clementine. Second, Leo knows what she is, what she's done, and what she's capable of, and he's not going to let either of them go so easily.

Ren explores the relationship between a mother and daughter from two very different generations, but who are more like one another than either realize. Monsters Are We is about figuring out who you are and choosing who you want to be. It's about being allowed to make irreparable mistakes so you can learn from them. The Draven girls find themselves on a road trip to hell and back which puts their lives and the lives of their closest friends into Leo's crosshairs. When they find themselves down on their luck, Penelope knows how to make her own, but it comes with a price.

Psychological thriller

Drawn to You is the story of the one that got away and one woman's twisted machinations to try and get it back. Ruby Deardon never got over her college crush, Sean Chaplin. They could have had something beautiful, Ruby tells herself, if only they had had anything at all. The timing was never right, the dominoes never fell the way she needed them to, so she lost her chance at her fairy tale happy ending.

Well, after nearly a decade of pining from a distance she decides to take matters into her own hands and insert herself back into Sean's life so they can finally have the life she's always wanted. He wants it too, she's sure of it, he just doesn't know it yet.

But just as she's about to zero in on Sean, she learns that Jeremy is zeroing in on her. She's was his one that got away, and while most women would be wary of his level of obsession, Ruby sees him as nothing but an obstacle standing between her and the future she's set her mind on. Jeremy is an unexpected dog in Ruby's game of cat and mouse, but cats have claws, and he has no idea what she's willing to do to make sure the mouse gets got.

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Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow- let’s go, Let’s Go, LET’S GO 🧛🏽‍♂️🐰

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Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away.

Dathan Auerbach, Penpal