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Book lovers have been compiling their favorite scary reads for this season, and here are 10 culled from Book Riot and various other sources:

• Snowblind by Christopher Golden – phone calls from dead people, missing children
• The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (this one was on some other lists, too) – poor housing choice
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill – (film starred Daniel Radcliffe) stay away from Eel Marsh House
• The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero– from gothic to “wickedly twisted treasure hunt”
• Booster & Reeves: The Night of the Revenants by Troy Blackford – both terrifying and laugh-out-loud funny
• We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory – a support group of survivors of stuff “too crazy to be true”
• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers – classic inspiration for much that has come after, including last spring’s tv series True Detective
• Song of Kali by Dan Simmons – on several lists, takes place in the dark (in every sense) setting of Calcutta
• The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue – art not only imitates but becomes life
• Pet Sematary by Stephen King – a horror classic; even King thought it “too scary”
• And here’s a bonus link to Neil Gaiman talking about the value of scary stories

The links are to Amazon.com for convenience, but, as always, I encourage you to do business with your local independent bookstore!

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