In for
some thrills? We’ve gathered our fave chilling reads for the
Halloween season. But be warned: Might wanna check with the ’rents
before picking up these haunting tales.
The
Dead, Charlie Higson
Why
It’s Spooky:
Zombies!
Set
in present day London, this prequel to The
Enemy follows a small group
of survivors from Rowhurst boarding school as they make their way
across the city to safety. The
Dead takes place right
after the disaster struck, when a terrible disease affected everyone
over the age of sixteen, leaving them dead or worse…turning them
into decomposing, flesh-eating monsters.
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the book here!
Lockdown:
Escape from Furnace 1,
Alexander Gordon Smith
Why
It’s Spooky:
Furnace Penitentiary—a
terrifying prison for young offenders, buried underground with a host
of awful inhabitants.
Alex
Sawyer is the “new fish” at Furnace Penitentiary, sentenced to
life in prison for the murder of his good friend. A murder he did
not
commit. Upon arriving, Alex realizes he has two choices, find a way
out or resign himself to death within the shadowy walls of the
Furnace.
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the book here!
Ashes,
Ilsa J. Bick
Why
It’s Spooky:
A series of mysterious electromagnetic pulses have seemingly taken
out the entire world, destroying electronics and communication in an
instant.
What if
in one moment everything you knew changed? Phones? Gone. Computers?
Wiped out. Most adults? Dead. Most young adults? Transformed into
psychotic flesh-eating monsters. Take a healthy dose of dystopian,
post-apocalyptic fiction, add a dash of survival fiction and mix in
some cannibals and zombies with an inspiring heroine, and you have
Ashes.
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the book here!
The
Unbecoming of Mara Dyer,
Michelle Hodkin
Why
It’s Spooky:
Imagine waking up from a coma with no memory of the mysterious
accident in an asylum
that caused the deaths of your best friend, boyfriend, and
boyfriend’s sister.
This is
exactly what happens to Mara Dyer. Her parents, in the aftermath of
the accident, are urged by doctors to start over in a new state, at a
new school….a new beginning. However, Mara’s new start is going
less than stellar. She keeps seeing the faces of her dead friends and
then starts to see people’s deaths just before they happen—or at
least that’s what she thinks
she’s seeing.
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the book here!
The
Name of the Star,
Maureen Johnson
Why
It’s Spooky: Gory
killings reminiscent of Jack the Ripper in London.
Rory
makes a drastic move from sweltering Louisiana to cold and gloomy
London. She starts at a London boarding school the same day a series
of gruesome murders break out across the city, mimicking the
notorious Jack the Ripper murder spree from 1888. “Rippermania”
breaks out across modern-day London, leaving the police completely
baffled, with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory is
positive she spotted the man police now believe to be the prime
suspect. However, she is the only one.
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the book here!
Teeth,
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Why
it’s Spooky:
Vampire anthology with
refreshingly less emphasis on romance (we’re looking at you,
Twilight)
and more concentration on mythology and lore.
Teeth
is a compilation of nineteen vampire stories contributed by
award-winning, popular authors, including Melissa Marr, Cassandra
Clare, Holly Black and Neil Gaiman. Each one is dark and original,
some with snarky humor, and plenty with a healthy dose of angst.
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the book here!
Have you
checked out any of these books yet? Blog about it, babes.
BY MARTHA MACK ON 10/23/2011 7:00:00 AM
POSTED IN entertainment, Book Club, books we love, book reviews, halloween, books