Spooky Fall Lineup

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gothic, halloween, reading, spooky reads, werewolves, zombies

Autumn is my favorite time of year. Cool breezes, leaves dancing on the wind, my warm boots and of course Halloween, are all things on my mind. My reading too is affected by the change. I gravitate toward monsters! Here’s my Fall lineup of spooky reads I’ll be tackling before Halloween.

Reading now:

Overwinter by David Wellington

I’m more than half finished with Overwinter and it does not disappoint! Dire Wolves and Inuit spirits and blue-skinned Russians, oh my!

Overnight is the sequel to Frostbite. Check out my previous post on the book and David Wellington here.

Reading Next:

Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther

Zombie monsters struck from the mold of countless drive-in B movies supply mayhem and gore in Darkness Falling. Their onslaught is heralded one day by a predawn flash of unearthly light that cuts off middle-American everyville Jesman’s Bend from communication with the outside world. When four employees of local radio station KMRT investigate, they find the town mysteriously depopulated, apparently in the middle of regular routines. Familiar folk reappear shortly afterward, all wearing concealing sunglasses and gloves and driven by malignant alien motives revealed when they descend en masse upon the terrified foursome . . . (via Goodreads)

Autumn: The City by David Moody

A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, theAutumn series chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse.  Animated by “phase two” of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities… sight, hearing, locomotion…  As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence.  Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal – to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world:  those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1… While the first Autumn novel focused on those who escaped the city, Autumn: The City focuses on those who didn’t. Without ever using the ‘Z’ word, the Autumn series offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There’s no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore’s sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero’s classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear. (via Goodreads)

White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick

Some secrets are better left buried; some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow. Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, White Crow unfolds in three voices. There’s Rebecca, who has come to a small, seaside village to spend the summer, and there’s Ferelith, who offers to show Rebecca the secrets of the town…but at a price. Finally, there’s a priest whose descent into darkness illuminates the girls’ frightening story. White Crow is as beautifully written as it is horrifically gripping. (via Goodreads)

What are you reading this Fall?

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