15 Books To Put You In The Halloween Spirit
The spookiest time of the year is quickly approaching :Halloween will be here soon .So,the best way to get in the Halloween spirit is with these thrilling, scary and mysterious novels.
As I am from India and we don't have any Halloween celebration over here ,so reading creepy novels have always put me in what we call Halloween spirit.
Halloween Party by Agatha Christie
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples...At a Halloween party ,Joyce- a hostile thirteen-year old girl -boasts that once she witnessed a murder .When no-one believes her ,she storms off home.But within hours her body is found,still in the house,drowned in a apple-bobbing tub.
As I am from India and we don't have any Halloween celebration over here ,so reading creepy novels have always put me in what we call Halloween spirit.
In the honor of the upcoming tick or treat holiday ,take a look at books below which contain all the Halloween elements.
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A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples...At a Halloween party ,Joyce- a hostile thirteen-year old girl -boasts that once she witnessed a murder .When no-one believes her ,she storms off home.But within hours her body is found,still in the house,drowned in a apple-bobbing tub.
Maybe you aren't fan of horror or don't want to be afraid but still want the feeling of the Halloween season? Then this is a perfect choice for you which also gives you the insight of old Halloween.
A Catered Halloween by Isis Crawford
Sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons are thrilled they've been asked to cater a haunted house fundraiser .But they soon discover that ghosts aren't the only unwanted guests when a murder strikes....
This is a great Halloween read .It is full of creepy Halloween things going on.Ghosts,murder ,a haunted house,slight twist at the end of the story and awesome Halloween recipes!
Scared Stiff by Annelise Ryan
A witty cozy mystery to read .You are brought into this party by a Halloween Party and then get to call for a dead body that brings a whole lot trouble for Mattie Winston.It is the one with the murder victim mixed in her Halloween display.Mattie has to go the crime scene in her Glinda the Good Witch costume.
Entertaining read with humor,mystery and romance throughout.I loved the interaction between Mattie and Hurley,the comments and suggestions that they make to each other.
The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston
You're just going about your daily business,healing people and whatnot,and then what happens?The plauge. Suddenly everyone in town is accusing of being a witch and clamouring the witch-finder to hang you for consorting with Satan and dancing naked with demons and whatnot. Isn't that always the way of things. Brackston provides us with several snapshots of Bess' nearly four hundred years of life.This is actually a rather dark book.The book is little all over the map .It has these great ,shining moments of insight into the nature of loss and suffering .Brackston's perspective on witchcraft is,while not all that original ,rather refreshing in tone.
Hallowed Bones by Carolyn Haines
It is the fall...and orange and black ball in New Orleans is the social event ...Sarah and her best friend Tinkie have started a detective agency.They are asked to help Doreen ...a spiritualist,who preaches love ,reads tarot cards ,beautiful ,whose touch heals -though she says it's the individual who heals themselves when they open up to Divine....and she is accused of killing her baby.Sarah has several distractions -the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny ,her love for the married sheriff and the return of an old flame.While everyone is sure that Doreen didn't kill her baby ,it proves very difficult to find out who did.
The Silent Girls by Eric Rickstad
It was for me one of the best crime thrillers I have read in a while.Set in Cannon Vermont Frank Rath was a former detective ,has a back that's acting up and misses his adoptive daughter who's gone off to college .Alone and with too much time on his hands ,he gets drawn into a missing person's case as a consultant.
but there is more to this case than meets the eye ,and the disappearances of other missing girls might be linked to it.Eric Rickstad takes you into the mind of a serial killer & the incomprehensible torture of his victims .The plot is well written ,shocking and makes you eager to learn more.
It by Stephen King
The story is of Derry Maine ...a small city, a palce as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown.Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror.Now they are grown up men and women who have gone into the big world to gain success and happiness.But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and evil without a face.
Its quite a long book but worth your time.If you in for read something scary then go for it and we also have a movie based on the book ...an add on to the horror.
Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price-and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams .But he can't pull it of alone...
Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction -if they don't kill each other first.And as an add on we also have a Netflix series based on the story.
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Stepping away from the scary ,Garden Spells follows two sisters with unique powers who reconnect in their hometown.The follow up,First Frost is also good but this is a real winner.The magic realism in this is fascinating.
Chicken soup when you're sick.Chocolate when you're hormonal .Lavendar for your bathroom Citrus for the kitchen.This book speaks my mother's language -that of food and how we are connected to what we eat ,serve and order.the book is lovely ,magical and enhchanting and leaves you in happiness.
A Killer Harvest by Paul Cleave
A thriller about a blind teenager who receives new eyes through corneal donation and begins to see and feel memories that he believes belong to the previous owners a detective and a serial killer.
It is a spine chilling ,often macabre ,well crafted thriller,mingled with a side order of science fiction ,that takes us on the hunt to find a missing woman and the vicious ,sadistic serial killer responsible for her disappearance.
Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge -and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them .
Welcome to cursed town of Sparrow...
This is an exquisitely atmospheric book .The subject matter is ,of course dark ,but the way the author presents the town and its curse almost feels magical .
The Devil's Rooming House by M.William Phelps
It is the first book about the life,times and crimes of America's most prolific female serial killer .Ins telling this fascinating story ,the author also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.It is the real story on which the play "Arsenic and Old lace " was loosely based ,although the play was a comedy.
No Safe Place by Sherri Shackerford
After forensic accountant Beth Greenwood uncovers a money -laundering scheme tying her company to the organization that murdered her mentor , she knows she needs to go into hiding.With ruthless killers in pursuit ,she's forced to rely on a homeland security agent Corbin Ross's protection -even as his investigation suggests Beth is complicit in embezzelment.
The suspense is not so that it'll make you bite off your nails and can't go to sleep ,but engaging and compelling and makes you turn pages to see what happens next.
The Mistake by K.L. Slater
One discovery can change your whole life....
Eight -year old Billy goes missing one day ,out flying his kite with his sister Rose.Two days later he is found dead.
Sixteen years old Rose still blames herself for Billy's death.She has never fully recovered from the trauma ,and one of the few peoples she trust is her neighbour Ronnie ,who she has known all her life.But one day Ronnie falls ill ,and Rose goes to help him ...and what she finds out in his attic room turns her world upside down.Rose thought she new the truth about what happened to Billy .She thought she knew her neighbour. And now the only thing she knows is that her life is in danger.
The Blackbird Season by Kate Moretti
Where did they come from? Why did they fall?The question would be asked a thousand times...Until,of course,more important question arose,at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.
The disapperance of a mysterious high school student whom was supposedly having an affair with a beloved teacher turns a small town on its head.This is an atmospheric psychological suspense mystery .
Please tell if you liked the above list .And also feel free to tell about your halloween reads in the comments below👇👇 .Wish you a Happy Halloween🎃🎃
Sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons are thrilled they've been asked to cater a haunted house fundraiser .But they soon discover that ghosts aren't the only unwanted guests when a murder strikes....
This is a great Halloween read .It is full of creepy Halloween things going on.Ghosts,murder ,a haunted house,slight twist at the end of the story and awesome Halloween recipes!
A witty cozy mystery to read .You are brought into this party by a Halloween Party and then get to call for a dead body that brings a whole lot trouble for Mattie Winston.It is the one with the murder victim mixed in her Halloween display.Mattie has to go the crime scene in her Glinda the Good Witch costume.
Entertaining read with humor,mystery and romance throughout.I loved the interaction between Mattie and Hurley,the comments and suggestions that they make to each other.
You're just going about your daily business,healing people and whatnot,and then what happens?The plauge. Suddenly everyone in town is accusing of being a witch and clamouring the witch-finder to hang you for consorting with Satan and dancing naked with demons and whatnot. Isn't that always the way of things. Brackston provides us with several snapshots of Bess' nearly four hundred years of life.This is actually a rather dark book.The book is little all over the map .It has these great ,shining moments of insight into the nature of loss and suffering .Brackston's perspective on witchcraft is,while not all that original ,rather refreshing in tone.
It is the fall...and orange and black ball in New Orleans is the social event ...Sarah and her best friend Tinkie have started a detective agency.They are asked to help Doreen ...a spiritualist,who preaches love ,reads tarot cards ,beautiful ,whose touch heals -though she says it's the individual who heals themselves when they open up to Divine....and she is accused of killing her baby.Sarah has several distractions -the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny ,her love for the married sheriff and the return of an old flame.While everyone is sure that Doreen didn't kill her baby ,it proves very difficult to find out who did.
It was for me one of the best crime thrillers I have read in a while.Set in Cannon Vermont Frank Rath was a former detective ,has a back that's acting up and misses his adoptive daughter who's gone off to college .Alone and with too much time on his hands ,he gets drawn into a missing person's case as a consultant.
but there is more to this case than meets the eye ,and the disappearances of other missing girls might be linked to it.Eric Rickstad takes you into the mind of a serial killer & the incomprehensible torture of his victims .The plot is well written ,shocking and makes you eager to learn more.
The story is of Derry Maine ...a small city, a palce as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown.Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror.Now they are grown up men and women who have gone into the big world to gain success and happiness.But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and evil without a face.
Its quite a long book but worth your time.If you in for read something scary then go for it and we also have a movie based on the book ...an add on to the horror.
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price-and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams .But he can't pull it of alone...
Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction -if they don't kill each other first.And as an add on we also have a Netflix series based on the story.
Stepping away from the scary ,Garden Spells follows two sisters with unique powers who reconnect in their hometown.The follow up,First Frost is also good but this is a real winner.The magic realism in this is fascinating.
Chicken soup when you're sick.Chocolate when you're hormonal .Lavendar for your bathroom Citrus for the kitchen.This book speaks my mother's language -that of food and how we are connected to what we eat ,serve and order.the book is lovely ,magical and enhchanting and leaves you in happiness.
A thriller about a blind teenager who receives new eyes through corneal donation and begins to see and feel memories that he believes belong to the previous owners a detective and a serial killer.
It is a spine chilling ,often macabre ,well crafted thriller,mingled with a side order of science fiction ,that takes us on the hunt to find a missing woman and the vicious ,sadistic serial killer responsible for her disappearance.
Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge -and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them .
Welcome to cursed town of Sparrow...
This is an exquisitely atmospheric book .The subject matter is ,of course dark ,but the way the author presents the town and its curse almost feels magical .
It is the first book about the life,times and crimes of America's most prolific female serial killer .Ins telling this fascinating story ,the author also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.It is the real story on which the play "Arsenic and Old lace " was loosely based ,although the play was a comedy.
After forensic accountant Beth Greenwood uncovers a money -laundering scheme tying her company to the organization that murdered her mentor , she knows she needs to go into hiding.With ruthless killers in pursuit ,she's forced to rely on a homeland security agent Corbin Ross's protection -even as his investigation suggests Beth is complicit in embezzelment.
The suspense is not so that it'll make you bite off your nails and can't go to sleep ,but engaging and compelling and makes you turn pages to see what happens next.
One discovery can change your whole life....
Eight -year old Billy goes missing one day ,out flying his kite with his sister Rose.Two days later he is found dead.
Sixteen years old Rose still blames herself for Billy's death.She has never fully recovered from the trauma ,and one of the few peoples she trust is her neighbour Ronnie ,who she has known all her life.But one day Ronnie falls ill ,and Rose goes to help him ...and what she finds out in his attic room turns her world upside down.Rose thought she new the truth about what happened to Billy .She thought she knew her neighbour. And now the only thing she knows is that her life is in danger.
Where did they come from? Why did they fall?The question would be asked a thousand times...Until,of course,more important question arose,at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.
The disapperance of a mysterious high school student whom was supposedly having an affair with a beloved teacher turns a small town on its head.This is an atmospheric psychological suspense mystery .
Please tell if you liked the above list .And also feel free to tell about your halloween reads in the comments below👇👇 .Wish you a Happy Halloween🎃🎃
Good picks! A Killer Harvest really caught my attention. I'll have to add that to my TBR list.
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