Does anyone else do Halloween reads? (lemmy.ml)

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I've been reading something spooky/creepy/horrific around this time for a few years now. Does anyone else do this? Any recommendations?

My reads:

2023: Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
2022: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2021: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
2020: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2019: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
2018: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
2017: Carrie by Stephen King
2016: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
2015: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
2014: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
2012: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
2009: Dracula by Bram Stoker
2008: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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[-] Tenbot@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yes! I've also been doing a Spooky Season last month and this one with some of the same classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man, and now Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I had never read any of them before! Based on the popular conceptions versus the reality of the text, I'd say Frankenstein was the most interesting.

[-] Deebster@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I liked the format* of Dracula, that was a welcome surprise.

* I looked up the term: "epistolary".

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