With
Halloween coming up it's a good season for reading horror books. The
site Goodreads.com has posted their top 50 horror books. Read here
for the complete list. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary
online, “horror” is defined as “painful
and intense fear, dread, or dismay” or an intense aversion to
something (Merriam-Webster, 2019). So, when we read horror or
thriller works we expect to read something that we might be afraid of
or disturbing. I'm not someone that reads horror or watches it
either, but I have read three of the works on the Goodreads list. A
few books on the list that I want to read and a few that I've not
read but seen the movie versions.
Books
I've read
Edgar
Allen Poe (various stories)
Mary
Shelley Frankenstein
Bram
Stoker Dracula
Books
I want to read
Robert
Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Shirley
Jackson The - Haunting of Hill House
Ray
Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes
Richard
Matheson – I Am Legend
Movie
versions I've seen but not read.
World
War Z
Warm
Bodies
Flowers
in the Attic
n Poe. The Masque of the Red Death is my favorite work of Poe, because it not only sets up the eerie location and atmosphere but the story of the prince and the townspeople. It's filled with wonderful imagery and symbolism, that I go over in my review.
How
many of the books on this list have you read? What are some of your
favorite horror/thriller books? Leave your comments below or tweet to me @BelleArboreus and share your thoughts on this list.
If you are looking for a Children's book for Halloween check out mine, up on Amazon Kindle. It's called 'Who Scared Jack?' It's about a pumpkin named Jack and on Halloween night he gets terrified of a scary creature. Follow Jack around his mansion filled with ghosts, vampires and more to find out exactly who scared Jack. Link here https://amzn.to/33SatmE
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