Scary October reads
1
door Shirley Jackson
9,702 leden
430 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.74
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 12:05 PM
- 2 Members
- PitcherBooks, andomck
2
door Grady Hendrix
2,291 leden
188 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 5.5
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:36 AM
- 2 Members
- PitcherBooks, andomck
3
door Clive Barker
2,455 leden
32 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.09
Toegevoegd 2016-10-14, 10:15 PM
- 2 Members
- SomeGuyInVirginia, andomck
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Vols 1-3 make up the most astonishing collection of weird short fiction I have ever read.
4
door Anne Rivers Siddons
1,158 leden
45 besprekingen
3.8
Score 4.7
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 02:02 PM
- 2 Members
- SomeGuyInVirginia, andomck
- Verklaringen
- SomeGuyInVirginia: The perfect haunted house story.
5
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6
door James Herbert
477 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:33 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: The best in 70s British horror. The premise is so good- one person walks away from a catastrophic airline crash -that it's been stolen several times.
7
door Thomas Tryon
1,133 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:34 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: The other The Other.
8
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9
door James Stoddard
331 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:32 AM
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10
door Lesley Glaister
56 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:35 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: The anti-Christie.
11
door Gerald Kersh
74 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Score 2.83
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:35 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Horrific.
13
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14
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Really gross.
15
door Dean Koontz
207 leden
14 besprekingen
3.8
Score 2.56
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:36 AM
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16
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: A lady who mops up violent crimes scenes is haunted by an ancient native spirit.
17
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: The Robert Graves of splatterpunk. Unlike most who are, his agreeable, cinematic style really does bear comparison to Stephen King.
18
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19
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20
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Good lord, just try not to have a good time reading this chiller.
22
door Clive Barker
3,030 leden
64 besprekingen
4
Score 2.25
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:39 AM
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23
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: The Natural Born Killers of Vatican vampire assassin books.
24
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Ew! Ew ew ew ew ew!
25
door Alfred Hitchcock
312 leden
3 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.2
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:41 AM
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- PitcherBooks
26
door Marcus Sedgwick
509 leden
30 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 2.15
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:42 AM
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27
door Rohan O'Grady
213 leden
33 besprekingen
3.9
Score 2.15
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:46 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Like an Ealing black comedy in your head.
28
door James P. Blaylock
235 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
Score 2.11
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:42 AM
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29
door Joe Schreiber
203 leden
18 besprekingen
3.2
Score 2.11
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:47 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Gross. Weird. Under appreciated.
30
door Justin Evans
649 leden
28 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 2.07
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:52 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: The NPR Exorcist.
31
door Alfred Hitchcock
170 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.07
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:42 AM
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32
door Thomas Peckett Prest
703 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.03
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:56 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Chilling and oddly moving.
33
door Marcus Sedgwick
110 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.03
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:43 AM
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- PitcherBooks
34
door Christopher Fowler
1,606 leden
81 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 01:58 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: A homicidal maniac haunts an old theater in London. What are you waiting for?
35
door Jonathan Maberry
610 leden
31 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 2
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:44 AM
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36
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Practically perfect in every way. Get out your wallet.
37
door H. P. Lovecraft
785 leden
8 besprekingen
4.2
Score 1.97
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:46 AM
- Member
- PitcherBooks
38
door Chris Wooding
749 leden
18 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.94
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:48 AM
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39
door Margaret Millar
402 leden
21 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.94
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 02:00 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: For people who wouldn't be caught dead reading something trashy like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.
40
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41
door Michael Fessier
15 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
Score 1.92
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 02:00 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Why, he's no crazier than I am.
42
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43
door L. P. Hartley
69 leden
2 besprekingen
4.2
Score 1.89
Toegevoegd 2016-10-11, 02:01 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Contains two of the most disturbing short stories in the language; The Visitor From Down Under, and The Travelling Grave.
44
door Edith Wharton
84 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Score 1.87
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:52 AM
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- PitcherBooks
45
door Jennifer McMahon
2,221 leden
186 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.85
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:54 AM
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46
door John Franklin Bardin
228 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.85
Toegevoegd 2016-10-13, 03:10 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: A perfect Gothic shocker.
47
door William Hope Hodgson
268 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.83
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:55 AM
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48
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: A society matron pushes a baby and carriage in front of his speeding truck, and that's not even the worst thing that happens to him that day.
49
door Agatha Christie
21,202 leden
534 besprekingen
4.2
Score 1.81
Toegevoegd 2016-10-13, 09:30 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Probably the most perfect thriller of all time.
50
door Marjorie Bowen
152 leden
5 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.81
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:56 AM
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- PitcherBooks
51
door John Skipp
304 leden
12 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.79
Toegevoegd 2016-10-14, 11:45 AM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Grubby, 80s-era NYC vampires.
53
door Douglas Preston
4,043 leden
113 besprekingen
4
Score 1.77
Toegevoegd 2016-10-14, 11:52 AM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: I gave up on the Preston/Child series after Cemetery Dance, but this book is about perfect.
54
door Amyas Northcote
73 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.77
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 11:58 AM
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55
door Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,762 leden
11 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.76
Toegevoegd 2017-04-05, 12:01 PM
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56
door Fredric Brown
241 leden
10 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.76
Toegevoegd 2016-10-14, 11:59 AM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: By the pricking of my thumbs...
57
door Patrick Redmond
383 leden
4 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.74
Toegevoegd 2016-10-14, 02:28 PM
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Wish all you want! Bwahaha! Bwahahahaha! (evil laugh)
58
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- SomeGuyInVirginia: Grand guignol as social criticism.