So here is a great list of scary tales, all suggested by your fellow blogger! They all sound fantastic and will make for a great Halloween experience. So light some candles, gather around the fire, and get your mugs filled, it’s time for some Ghost Stories!
Blogger favorites for Boostastically Scary Tales:
by Elizabeth Kostova
Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler.
Rated 4.0 on amazon.com
Ghost Story
Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl’s captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor’s obsession with one of his students.
A classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past…
Rated 4.1 on amazon.com
Thank You The Britchy One of bitchininthekitchen.org
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury’s incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time.
Rated 4.1 on amazon.com
Thank you Tina of tinawilliamsblog.wordpress.com
Read by Glenn Close
Washington Irving’s eerie tale of romantic rivalry along the Hudson pits new schoolmaster Ichabod
The haunting drama climaxes with the appearance of a legendary ghost-the headless horseman.
Rated 4.0 on amazon.com
“ All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; …”
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Thank you K.M. Sutton of liveinthenautical.com
by Theodore Roszak
The passionate story of Elizabeth Lavenza, a girl rescued from poverty and raised by a remarkable noblewoman of Geneva, describes how the demise of her sensual bond with Victor Frankenstein sends him hurtling into a secret life, and along a path of destruction.
Rated 3.0 on amazon.com
The Innocents
Starring Deborah Kerr
An English governess believes that her two new charges are possessed by the spirits of the previous governess and her sadistic lover in this adaptation of Henry James’ “Turn of the Screw.”
Rated 4.3 on amazon.com
Thank you Fraser of frasersherman.com
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
Heralded as the very first mystery novel. Collins, in this work, created the guidelines for the genre as we know it today: a fabulous diamond stolen, everyone in the house is suspected, three mysterious Indians sworn to protect the jewel at all costs, the upstairs/downstairs tension from the servants, and a brilliant detective who is eccentrically fond of roses.
Rated 4.1 on amazon.com
Thank you Kelsey of theressomethingaboutkm.com
The Woman in Black
Eel Marsh house stands alone, surveying the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Once, Mrs Alice Drablow lived here as a recluse. Now, Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend her funeral, unaware of the tragic and terrible secrets which lie behind the house’s shuttered windows. The classic ghost story from the author of The Mist in the Mirror: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town.
Rated 4.1 on amazon.com
Thank you Paul Bowler of scifijubilee.wordpress.com
Book Bean: Midnight Madness
(A twist on Mulled)
Place 8 oz of water in a pan over high heat, add cinnamon stick, 3 cloves, 2 slices of orange (thin) and a pinch of nutmeg, bring to boil. Stir in, 1/2 Tsp of brown sugar, 1 Tsp of honey, and 1/2 Tsp of butter (or use 2 Tsp of pre-made buttered rum😉) Remove from heat and stir in 2 oz of rum (or whiskey) with new cinnamon stick.
(make it fun, add a dollop of vanilla bean ice-cream!)
Pick your book fancy from the wonderful choices above or chose one of your own, and gather with friends and/or family for a fun night of spooky tales and cozy spirits!
Frankenstein
The Turn of the Screw
The Shining
Dracula
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave”
I love this story, and I love its origins. Mary Shelley is a fantastic Author and Frankenstein is such a tribute to her talent. This timeless tale was written with such grace and elegance, yet she fearlessly captures the relentless heart of a man desperately searching for meaning.
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