Top Ten Tuesday : Halloween
26 October 2021
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Chiller, Ghosts, Halloween, Murder, Mystery, Recommendations, Vampires
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic :
Halloween Freebie
With the exception of one of my chosen topics (the adaptation – which I loved btw and highly recommend) all the books below have been fairly recent reads that have been read during the last 12/13 months. I was going to go all old-school horror but decided I’d like to use this topic to look at some more recent reads that I’ve enjoyed and are perfect for this time of the year.
Haunting/Ghostly
Later by Stephen King
Favourite Adaptation
Dr Sleep by Stephen King
Vampire
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Creature Feature
Near the Bone by Christina Henry
Psychological/Thriller
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Gothic
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell
Slasher Style
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Fictional retelling of true crime
In the Garden of Spite (aka Triflers Need Not Apply) by Camilla Bruce
Horror/Thriller
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Dystopian horror
The Phlebotomist by Chris Panatier
No.31 Dragon #Drawlloween
Today is day 31 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is the final day – Dragon!!. So, I thought, I’m going to spend ages drawing a dragon, Smaug, and then I thought maybe not! Maybe I’ll do a quick sketch instead. Anyway, I’ve really enjoyed this event – but, will just apologise now for inflicting my nonsense upon you all!
No.30 Spider #Drawlloween
Today is day 29 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is Spider. Just sorry – this one is not really… welll… ppfft
No.29 Scarecrow #Drawlloween
Today is day 29 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is Scarecrow. I was going for something creepy…so don’t laugh.. or maybe do!
No.28 Black Cat #Drawlloween
Today is day 28 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is Black Cat. Best I could come up with! Cat and Mouse:
Books and travelling with Lynn 