October Halloween recommendations?

[mikeC]

I'd love to hear of some great spooky books to listen to in the Fall and next coming month. I am all SK'd out so just wondering if anyone has any hidden atmospheric gems that I don't know about.
Similar to Ghost Story, Hell House, Harvest Home and such.
Thanks again!

I highly recommend the books above if you've never read them.

[Shannon]

There's this book that I heard was pretty good. It's about a clown that terrorizes kids. Can't remember the title or the author though.

[Shannon]

Found it!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61eVY57Th9L._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

[Cwalker]

Shannon, that was some of the funniest stuff i have seen all day!! Thank you!!

On topic though, while not exactly a ghost story, my wife and i just finished listening to The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott. It was quite good and takes place in the few days leading up to and on All Hallows Eve. Lots of good mythology and story-telling mixed in with plenty of blood and guts, with a plentiful sprinkling of sex.

Worth a listen i think.

[mikeC]

Found it!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61eVY57Th9L._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Pretty sure the audio is OOP but I'll keep an eye out.

[mikeC]

Shannon, that was some of the funniest stuff i have seen all day!! Thank you!!

On topic though, while not exactly a ghost story, my wife and i just finished listening to The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott. It was quite good and takes place in the few days leading up to and on All Hallows Eve. Lots of good mythology and story-telling mixed in with plenty of blood and guts, with a plentiful sprinkling of sex.

Worth a listen i think.

I love sex sprinkles thanks for the recommendation.

[Mattrick]

Buy my book.

[fernandito]

Buy Matt's book ^^

[Mattrick]

What he said ^^^

[Heather19]

I'd love to hear of some great spooky books to listen to in the Fall and next coming month. I am all SK'd out so just wondering if anyone has any hidden atmospheric gems that I don't know about.
Similar to Ghost Story, Hell House, Harvest Home and such.
Thanks again!

I highly recommend the books above if you've never read them.

If you want a quick read, I really enjoyed A Summer of Fear by Rebecca Patrick-Howard. Supposedly a true story, I thought it was pretty creepy. I'd also highly recommend The Man on the Bench, it's a novella by Robert Swartwood. It had an It vibe to me, and it was another recent one that I read that just had that feeling of dread to it.

[Girlystevedave]

One that immediately comes to mind is Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge. It's a quick, but enjoyable Halloween-ish read.

Also, do what Matt said: Buy his book. :)

[WeDealInLead]

Co-signed on Dark Harvest. Another small-press suggestions is Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Etheridge. I believe it won a Stoker. If not that, Bradbury will do just fine:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b4/c7/eb/b4c7eb587a06c0fafca8065dddea9d9a.jpg

[mikeC]

Thanks for reminding me about Dark Harvest that's one I definitely wanted to check out but I forgot about.
I can't believe October Country isn't on audio. That's a bummer.

[Girlystevedave]

I only stumbled across Dark Harvest by accident one day, but I really enjoyed it. Now that I think about it, I think I'll aim to do a re-read of it this month. :)

[Ricky]

If you want nonfiction, I read The Demonologist last year and really enjoyed it. It covers the career and cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren. It's easy to write off their cases and "experiences" as faked, but man, after reading that book...

:scared:

[CyberGhostface]

Doesn't take place on Halloween but I read 'Little Star' by John Ajvide Lindqvist in October and thought it was great.

[Ricky]

Have you read Harbor? If you have, is it better than Little Star? I've had that one for awhile but haven't read it yet. Handling the Undead is one of my favorites.

[Ben Mears]

Four Octobers- Rick Hautula
Trick Or Treat: A Collection Of Halloween Novellas (Gary Braunbeck, Nancy Collins, Riak Hautula, Al Sarrantonio & Thomas Tessier)
Johnny Halloween- Norman Partridge
October Dreams CD short story collection
October Dreams II CD short story collection
Halloween short story collection edited by Paula Guran
October Dark-David Herter

For something a bit nastier and more juvenile:

All Hallow's Eve , Once Upon A Halloween and Night In The Lonesome October by Richard Laymon

[CyberGhostface]

Have you read Harbor? If you have, is it better than Little Star? I've had that one for awhile but haven't read it yet. Handling the Undead is one of my favorites.

I enjoyed 'Little Star' better but the two are pretty different.

[Ben Mears]

A new illustrated edition of an all time Halloween classic: http://www.amazon.com/The-Halloween-Tree-Ray-Bradbury-ebook/dp/B00PEPR5P4/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

[Merlin1958]

Let's Go Play at the Adams' - Mendel Johnson

http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Go-Play-at-Adams/dp/0553198297/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1445385558&sr=1-1

A very, very creepy book!!!

[WeDealInLead]

It's not too late to mention Al Sarrantonio. Has he ever published a non-Halloween book? Ha! I'm reading Horrorween. It's a silly title but it's a cool story; first in his Orangefield series.

[Dan]

It's not too late to mention Al Sarrantonio. Has he ever published a non-Halloween book? Ha! I'm reading Horrorween. It's a silly title but it's a cool story; first in his Orangefield series.


Haha, I read this last week. You're right, I'm pretty sure all his books are Halloween related.

[Wicked]

If you want nonfiction, I read The Demonologist last year and really enjoyed it. It covers the career and cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren. It's easy to write off their cases and "experiences" as faked, but man, after reading that book...

:scared:

After seeing The Conjuring, I'm not sure I can handle that stuff in book form!

My reading comes late at night, when the house is quiet and the Savannah cats have finally stopped their shenanigans (I have 4 of them) and I can go a few hours without having to jump up every 10 minutes or so. Literally the dead of the night. I'm pretty sure stuff does lurk under the bed, I dunno if I need confirmation of it, I'll never sleep! :panic:

[becca69]

If you want nonfiction, I read The Demonologist last year and really enjoyed it. It covers the career and cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren. It's easy to write off their cases and "experiences" as faked, but man, after reading that book...

:scared:

After seeing The Conjuring, I'm not sure I can handle that stuff in book form!

My reading comes late at night, when the house is quiet and the Savannah cats have finally stopped their shenanigans (I have 4 of them) and I can go a few hours without having to jump up every 10 minutes or so. Literally the dead of the night. I'm pretty sure stuff does lurk under the bed, I dunno if I need confirmation of it, I'll never sleep! :panic:

I want to see pics of your Savannahs! I've wanted one for a long while.

[Bethany]

Buy my book.


Buy Matt's book ^^

What they said.

[Mattrick]

If like three people tell you to do something, I think that, by law, you kind of, like, you know, have to do it :)

[Wicked]

If you want nonfiction, I read The Demonologist last year and really enjoyed it. It covers the career and cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren. It's easy to write off their cases and "experiences" as faked, but man, after reading that book...

:scared:

After seeing The Conjuring, I'm not sure I can handle that stuff in book form!

My reading comes late at night, when the house is quiet and the Savannah cats have finally stopped their shenanigans (I have 4 of them) and I can go a few hours without having to jump up every 10 minutes or so. Literally the dead of the night. I'm pretty sure stuff does lurk under the bed, I dunno if I need confirmation of it, I'll never sleep! :panic:

I want to see pics of your Savannahs! I've wanted one for a long while.

hehe! Happy to share! Let me figure out how to do this and incoming!

[becca69]

I want to see pics of your Savannahs! I've wanted one for a long while.

hehe! Happy to share! Let me figure out how to do this and incoming!

If you have a Photobucket account or similar, just use the "IMG" links provided.

[Wicked]

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/Sara1.jpg

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/Sun_lovergal.jpg

This was my F-2 Sarafina. She passed this July. :cry:

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/playing2.jpg
This is my F-3 Anisha. She is just lovely.

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/Goldie2_May11.jpg
This is my F-3 Goldie/Gasira. She is not your conventional Savannah as she is Bengal and Serval.

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/spotted_boy_21.jpg
This is my boy Sekani. He is an F-4. He is much bigger now, but I'm on my laptop with no big boy pics of him.

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/Take_My_Own_Pic.jpg
This is Shere Khan. He is an F-7 (which is wanted for breeding. Anything F-4 an before is sterile in male Savannahs) He is a Snow Spotted Savannah.

[Wicked]

I want to see pics of your Savannahs! I've wanted one for a long while.

hehe! Happy to share! Let me figure out how to do this and incoming!

If you have a Photobucket account or similar, just use the "IMG" links provided.

That's so odd, when I do that, they vanish, at least, I can't view them.

Okies, tried that again and still wonky. I checked in my settings and [IMG] tags should be fine and enabled for me, I think imgur is an issue. I've noticed in the gallery, some of the pages look oddly blank to me, as if there are pictures that should be there, which for some reason, aren't showing on my end.

[becca69]

Hmmm, weird. I never have issue with Photobucket so maybe it's Imgur??

I clicked your links and your cats are lovely. Do you breed them or just collect (LOL)?

[Merlin1958]

I want to see pics of your Savannahs! I've wanted one for a long while.

hehe! Happy to share! Let me figure out how to do this and incoming!

If you have a Photobucket account or similar, just use the "IMG" links provided.

That's so odd, when I do that, they vanish, at least, I can't view them.

Okies, tried that again and still wonky. I checked in my settings and [IMG] tags should be fine and enabled for me, I think imgur is an issue. I've noticed in the gallery, some of the pages look oddly blank to me, as if there are pictures that should be there, which for some reason, aren't showing on my end.


Are you inserting the image link into the icon of a "Picture Frame" which appears right next the one that looks like an envelope?

[Wicked]

Yeah, I think it's just imgur.

Thank you! No, I'd never breed, I couldn't handle it, it's alot of work and heartbreak, plus, fwiw, 2 of these were gifts and 2 were rescue kitties. I only got one on my own! Some folks think "nice cat!" and get in over their head with a breed (that was the case with Sekani and Sarafina) that is just a little more than just a normal kitty. As sweet as Sarafina was to me.. every vet visit required she literally be put under for vaccines, bloodwork, etc. She could not be handled by anyone other than me. She got like this when she was angry..

http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/500/mad_sara.jpg

They're a wonderful breed, and she is the exception, not the rule given the right upbringing (which sadly, she lacked the first few years of her life)! Smart, but not a lap cat, they all come running when I bring out a leash and a collar and line up at the door. They all play fetch. They all respond to their names and 3 out of the 4 them have run 2 German Shepherds away from their food bowls numerous times. :)

[Wicked]

Yup, I used the picture frame inserter, too. I think it's something odd with imgur links.

It doesn't give me errors, but when I hit 'post' and look, it's just blank, as if I'd added nothing. Not even a garbled mess of bad BB code.

I uploaded a photo of Mad Sara to my member gallery here, and voila, no issues! This surely might explain all those blank areas in the Artwork area of the forum if anyone used or is using Imgur. Perhaps Firefox isn't being nice, but I have full script allowance on this site, and Imgur, so I can't even fathom the issue. BB code is way friendlier than HTML (the stuff is the devil and is responsible for many hand cramps of mine) so I just can't see much room for error other than Imgur is bugged out.

[Mattrick]

The cats in our family have tanks
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My bodyguard Romeo sleeps with one eye open.
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Maine Coons are my breed. Never want to have anything else. Smart, friendly, lap cats (except Romeo, hasn't sat on my lap in two years!), great hunters, perfectly evolved for the northern wilderness, and they can be HUGE. They also tend to be rather clownish. Quiet breed, too. Nothing I hate more than loud cats that won't shut the hell up...Maine Coons mewling is a heck of a lot more tolerable than most cats meowing. Plus they look funny when you bathe them.
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/24955_10150176124980571_8011866_n.jpg?oh=39b5ab38b 751a0edbbb518f62d182db4&oe=56C58C66

[Wicked]

:biggrin1: hahaha! A damned tank!! Now that I just love.

People think I'm a freak for giving them a covered, screened in deck they can lounge in the sun on their own time, and their own room with towers, etc.. and even satellite TV (they love Dog TV, I swear it!) but that tank, is too damn precious and I know that cat feels powerful indeed!

lol! Maine Coone all wet makes me feel so sad, it's like someone pulled a "Thinner" on them! :eek:

[Girlystevedave]

Oh my gosh, the last thing any cat needs is a freaking tank. :lol:

[mikeC]

I'm listening to this
The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween by J. Tonzelli
It's pretty damn good.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Summer-Thirteen-Tales-Halloween/dp/098844688X

[Merlin1958]

Check this out. It's hysterical.......................


http://www.aintitcool.com/node/76482

[Ben Mears]

I'm listening to this
The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween by J. Tonzelli
It's pretty damn good.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Summer-Thirteen-Tales-Halloween/dp/098844688X


Just finished reading this. Some really good stories.

[St. Troy]

I guess this is as good a thread as any in which to post this info, and it's about the right time of year to resurrect this thread anyway:

The Folio Society has published an edition of The Exorcist, which looks quite nice (and uses some artwork that should be familiar to some of you): http://www.foliosociety.com/book/EXC/exorcist

[Girlystevedave]

I've never read The Exorcist (to be honest, the thought of it terrifies me :lol: ), but that edition looks pretty nice. I dig the artwork.

[Girlystevedave]

and it's about the right time of year to resurrect this thread anyway:



Correct you are!

[Tommy]

I've never read The Exorcist (to be honest, the thought of it terrifies me :lol: ), but that edition looks pretty nice. I dig the artwork.

It's a very creepy book and one of my favorites. I read it long after seeing the movie and it still managed to unnerve me. LOVE IT!

[Girlystevedave]

I've never read The Exorcist (to be honest, the thought of it terrifies me :lol: ), but that edition looks pretty nice. I dig the artwork.

It's a very creepy book and one of my favorites. I read it long after seeing the movie and it still managed to unnerve me. LOVE IT!

The movie creeped me the fuck out for days after I watched it, so I can only imagine what the book would do to me. :scared:

[Ricky]

I read the book before the movie, but neither really did it for me. I think I remember enjoying Legion (Blatty's sequel) more.

[mikeC]

I love Exorcist 3 and I've always wanted to read Legion but there is no audiobook.

I read this last year and it was pretty good:
http://www.cemeterydance.com/dark-harvest.html

I recommend Harvest Home is you have never read it.
https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Home-Novel-Thomas-Tryon-ebook/dp/B00EZEX7PW