{"id":4980,"date":"2015-10-30T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T13:32:17","slug":"spooky-reads-countdown-to-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4980","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4981\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4981\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4981\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/5977253911_5993c4a0ac_z.jpg?resize=584%2C438\" alt=\"haunted house\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/5977253911_5993c4a0ac_z.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/5977253911_5993c4a0ac_z.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo: Sean MacEntee, creative commons license)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The book-obsessed websites haven\u2019t overlooked the opportunity to capitalize on the scary underpinnings of the Halloween season. A reader poll by the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2015\/07\/16\/10-scariest-books-youve-read\/?utm_source=Book+Riot+Subscriptions&amp;utm_campaign=f745af0df1-RIOTRUNDOWN_SUNDAY&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ffcca77bbb-f745af0df1-320350249&amp;mc_cid=f745af0df1&amp;mc_eid=8d5c6b7c97\">BookRiot<\/a> yielded this top 10 list, with <em>The Shining<\/em> scariest of all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shining by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>It by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>Salem\u2019s Lot by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty<\/li>\n<li>Pet Sematary by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski<\/li>\n<li>The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson<\/li>\n<li>The Stand by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill<\/li>\n<li>Bird Box by Joshua Malerman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you recall that Joe Hill is Stephen King\u2019s son, that family has lock on half the fright mindshare.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/spooktacular-books\/#.VjN7ICs4ezz\">The American Scholar<\/a> takes a more high-brow approach to its list of \u201cSpooktacular Books,\u201d with the only overlaps <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vweisfeld.com\/?p=1331\">House of Leaves<\/a><\/em> and <em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>No time to read whole books? Jonathan Sturgeon, writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/545251\/30-of-the-scariest-moments-from-western-literature\/view-all\">Flavorwire<\/a>, has assembled 30 of the scariest <em>moments<\/em> from Western literature\u2014going all the way back to 760 BCE. Once again, Shirley Jackson and Hill House make the bloody cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book-obsessed websites haven\u2019t overlooked the opportunity to capitalize on the scary underpinnings of the Halloween season. A reader poll by the folks at BookRiot yielded this top 10 list, with The Shining scariest of all: The Shining by Stephen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Spooky Reads: Countdown to Halloween - nothing like a chilling tale on a dark and stormy night","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,40,104,32],"tags":[89,303],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction","category-the-morgue","category-thriller","tag-reading","tag-stephen-king"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}