All Hallows Read and Downside Sale

[alanajoli]

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First reader Arielle alerted me to a very cool celebration of reading happening this month. It's called All Hallows Read, and the idea is sharing a scary book with someone. Arielle was specifically looking for YA recommendations of scary books for a friend, and two of the scariest books I read in the YA category in the past few years are In the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, a post-apocalypse zombie novel that is brilliant and terrifying (but which ended up in my "worthy" category rather than in my "enjoyed it" category), and Prom Dates from Hell and its sequels by Rosemary Clement Moore, which I found deliciously scary, with wonderful mythic resonance, and I recommend without reservation.

I probably read a lot more adult novels in the horror/scary book category and could recommend a great number, but instead I'll just mention one series I've been enjoying that have been on an e-book super sale since the end of August. They're the Downside books by Stacia Kane, who's here on livejournal as stacia_kane. The series starts with Unholy Ghosts, on sale for only 99 cents. The two sequels are priced at $4.99, so you can get all three for $11 (or less than two mass market paperbacks).



Of course, you could also give someone the gift of Haunted, (because I'm not above just a little self promotion!).

But definitely do yourself a favor this Halloween and share a scary book, whether as a gift, a recommendation, or reading a new title yourself!

Comments

EEK

[erin maureen dixon (from livejournal.com)]

Ok, I'm a total scardey cat....any "scary" book recommendations that you'd maybe let a 7th grader read?

Maybe something to ease me gently into horror....my beagle is my source of protection from the paranormal....ya know?

Re: EEK

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'm a fluffy bunnies horror kind of girl myself on a typical day, so it doesn't take a lot to scare me, either. I wouldn't recommend Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely to a seventh grader I didn't know well, necessarily, because I think it has some content that would appeal more to older teens, but I do think it's a great fairy story in a modern setting (with some definitely creepy fae in the mix). If the "Hallowmere" series by Tiffany Trent had finished, I would recommend those without reservation for that age group. (They're worth reading even though the ending doesn't happen -- you just have to imagine it! The rest of the series is so worth it.)

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