HALLOWEEN HORROR BOOKS | Horror to Read in the Fall

[@SteveVernon]

So pleased and honored to see my novel TATTERDEMON on this list. I hope everyone who picks up a copy enjoys the read.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

It had such Halloweeny vibes. Perfect for someone looking for a dark read

[@LibraryMacabre]

Wow, thank you so much for featuring Autumncrow! I really appreciate the shoutout. You’re the best, Rachel!! 🎃

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Aww how could I make a Halloween themed horror video and NOT include it? It's perfect for this spooky season

[@JasonsWeirdReads]

Autumncrow and Halloween Fiend are both so good! Great list, Rachel!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Thanks! Yes they are both so Halloweeny

[@jjnewbold]

Tatterdemon is going on the super long TBR! I think Coraline, in addition to being my favorite read since picking up reading again last year, is pretty Halloween appropriate.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Your tbr sounds like mine! And yes Caroline is an excellent Halloween read

[@jjnewbold]

@@TheShadesofOrange Prince of Thorns, Velocity Weapon, and The Calculating Stars are all on my TBR from your channel still, looking forward to them!

[@riomadre]

My name is Autumn, Halloween season is my favorite, horror books are my favorite thing about the season, and Rachel is my favorite booktuber - this is my personal Christmas and I'm lovvving every minute!!! Thank you all year round, Rachel, but I'm sending extra love right now!!! You are awesome 🍁🍂🖤🕸🌛

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Aww thank you! Your comment made my day! 🖤🖤🖤

[@typicalbooks]

Tatterdemon sounds fab ~ as does The Halloween Fiend which I had thought was lighter fare until now. Thank you for blessing Afterlife with Archie so! It has to be the best meld of my grown-up Lydia horror and little Lydia childhood memories! Love those comics :)

[@fiberartsyreads]

Great list! I loved Afterlife with Archie and Small Spaces. The Tatterdemon sounds great. Will have to add that to my list.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I hope you enjoy it!

[@gothprincess0705]

Halloween Fiend and the Tatterdemon Omnibus sound absolutely amazing, definitely adding them to my TBR for October! Your recs have never disappointed me, we've got very similar taste in horror, and I've found wonderful gems through your channel. Keep up the good work, Rachel! 📖

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Aww thank you! I always love finding readers like yourself with similar tastes. Hope you enjoy those ones!

[@deangresswell615]

Al Sarrantonio's Orangefield books are pretty great, plus Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Etheridge. For shorter Autumnal fiction I love Kealen Patrick Burke and James A. Moore. Both have written collections based around Halloween and this time of year.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Oh thanks. I'll have to look those up

[@ReginasHauntedLibrary]

I especially enjoy horror short stories this time of year. Nice list!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Agreed! Thanks Regina!

[@SFF180]

Last Harvest and the Tatterdemon book both look like they'd be up my street! 🎃

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Oooh I'd love you to weigh in on either of those!

[@ImpressionBlend]

YES! I've been waiting for this! I've been looking for some new horror to read, thank you for the recommendations )) You're the best!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Aww thanks Marianna! I'm not quite sure if these particular books would be ones I'd personally recommend to you based on your reading tastes, but they are some fun Halloweenu reads. I know we are both looking foe the next book to give us the I'm Thinking of Ending Things" feelings

[@ImpressionBlend]

@@TheShadesofOrange Yessss! I'm really interested in the comics you mentioned for sure, they sound really cool!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Ooh I didn't know you were open to graphic novels. Yes, please check them out!

[@Phobophile]

Some great recommendations there (some I've read and some I haven't). I was pleased to see your list is entirely different from the one I posted on my own channel; it's nice to see the variety.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Glad there waa was some variety i our lists. I tried to avoid some of the really popular ones that show up on buzzfeed etc

[@ClandestineGirl16X]

AWESOME recommendations! Thank you so much

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Thanks! Hope it gave you some ideas!

[@ElizabethSagewood]

This is a great list! I'm going to be reading mostly anthologies during October I think.....I'm working through a novel that's a bit of a slog so some short stories will be refreshing.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Ahh yes, sounds like you need something easy and short if your book is a slog!

[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

Great video, but scarecrows are terrifying. Small Spaces sounds like something that would scare the crap out of me!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Haha then you should definitely read it!

[@dindranew.6808]

THE GRACE YEAR also by Tim Ligget was pretty good, though dragged a bit in the middle. You have some excellent choices! I love Harrow County; Joe Hill's Locke and Key graphic series would be a good choice, too, or really, anything by him.

[@dindranew.6808]

Also, shared with other people who have now themselves bought a few off the list. I just got Tatterdemon Omnibus, At the Cemetary Gates 2, and Small Spaces. I already had several others. :D Please do more of these! I also read primarily horror, SF, and non-fiction.

[@NicholasKaufmann]

I'm currently reading and enjoying Cullen Bunn's HARROW COUNTY series, so I second your recommendation! Two other books I would recommend for the Halloween season are classics that I'm sure many of your viewers have already read, but if not they might really enjoy discovering them: GHOST STORY by Peter Straub (a novel) and THE OCTOBER COUNTRY by Ray Bradbury (a story collection).

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I shamefully I have not read those two books so I really should get them on my TBR. Maybe I can do a follow up video next year. And I'm so glad your enjoying Harrow County. I think it's perfect for this time of year.

[@NicholasKaufmann]

@@TheShadesofOrange Yup! Just waiting on the third volume of HARROW COUNTY to come in the mail! As for the two books I mentioned, I think you'll really enjoy them. However, I know it's hard to focus on older books when there's always so much great new stuff coming out.

[@joshknoll5172]

As a teacher, I'm always reading middle grade & YA novels as I add them to my classroom library after I have finished them, and I want to make sure they are okay to be read by my students. Thanks for the recommendation of some horror stories for these two groups.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

That's awesome! I'm planning to eventually do videos specifically dedicated to YA & middle grade horror in the future... but I want to read more first

[@karamarie6781]

Just finished Bone White by Richard Malfi. Very vey good! One of my new favorite authors. Great video, thank u!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Oh nice! I still need to read that one

[@mightyzorro]

Thank you for the recommendation on that Archie book...gona try to find it today...

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I hope you enjoy(ed) it!

[@kathyarrr]

Thanks for the heads up on Steve Vernon, found the omnibus on Kobo for $3.99!! He also has a ton of Maritime ghost story books through my library. W00T!

[@SteveVernon]

Hope you enjoy the read.

[@kathyarrr]

@@SteveVernon I'm sure I will!!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I love a good deal!

[@kassit8833]

I loved “The Last Harvest” so much! It’s exactly what I needed to pull me out of a reading slump.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I had the exact same experience when I read it

[@jasonmcgarry550]

I just finished it the other day and I’m a little disappointed. I feel like there were a lot of loose ends and the characters did things that didn’t make sense. Spoiler warning clay getting with Ali after his sister just died and others are dying left and right was pretty weird to me like I would think it would kill the mood. Also I’m not sure what exactly happened with Ali. I guess the explanation for all the weird stuff she does is that she was possessed or something but didn’t she know about all the devil stuff? The preservation society were all in on it and we never figured out what Tyler said to the two who turned on clay to calm them down but that kinda proves they knew what was going on. Also we Never got it confirmed if Lee was having sex with Jess. Overall a bit confusing with loose ends and I wanted to like Ali but she did some strange things.

[@emeraldobrienloveshorror]

Love your channel! Thank you for the recommendations!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Why thank you!

[@janinepipehorrorwriter3876]

So pleased to see AUTUMNCROW on your list! I love short, spooky stories this time of year and I am all about the nostalgic vibes rather than full on extreme horror. I read horror every single day, but during Halloween, I like to break out my Goosebumps and Hocus Pocus, just things that make me fee all cosy.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Love your Halloweeny reads! And yes Autumncrow is a great spooky read.

[@RivetingReads]

Thank you so much for this video! :) Such great recs!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@amandachase7691]

The Last Harvest sounds perfect for this time of year!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

It's so perfect for the season

[@marcyreads]

oh man 😭😭 I have Halloween Fiend as my Halloween night read but now that you mention animal "cruelty" I don't know if I'll be able to handle it. I'm such a sucker when it comes to animals. I've had an e-arc of Small Spaces forever 😩 why haven't I read it yet? You have definitely made me bump it up on my list. I love middle grade so much, it's so fun and entertaining. UUUMMM The Tatterdemon sounds amazing!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Aww yeah I know a lot of people avoid books with harm to animals. I hope you check out Small Spaces & Tatterdemon this year

[@BohoBookworm]

Thanks for these Rachel, I need some creepy books to read around Halloween!!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Happy to help!

[@SouthernChimes]

After watching this video I read The Halloween Fiend straight away and it was so good. Halloween was so creepy and just reading the book made my skin crawl. It really made me wish that the book was longer so the author could have gone deeper into the other townspeople and the history of the town

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Agreed! It would have made a good novel. Halloween was such a creepy monster

[@gp365y]

Wonderful list! My October read is Richard Laymon's " Night in the Lonesome October ". He makes a standard late night walk seem sooo eerie. Love that book. And I personally think more demons should look like scarecrows just saying. 😁

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I need to read more Laymon! Maybe I'll read that one next

[@makarovdude]

Well, these all seem very unique and disturbing. Great list! I would recommend Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Intensity by Dean Koontz. I read Intensity around my birthday, which is in November, so I always associate it with Fall. Either way, it's a great, one-of-a-kind slasher thriller.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Oooh yes Scary stories is perfect for the season. And I really need to read Intensity. Everyone keeps recommending it to me

[@mindysbookjourney]

Great recommendations for Halloween. I really liked Halloween Fiend.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Thanks!

[@notconvinced2204]

It’s funny. Halloween fiend is a book I was most excited about and I’m definitely going to start with that one after this review. I think Halloween is the only excuse for me to read middle grade, because the season is all about nostalgia for me so I’ve also got small spaces in my shopping cart now. I can deal with most horror but it seems so many Halloween books involve children dying, i was wondering if any of these books have that, mainly the tatterdemon omnibus.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

No I don't think any of these books involve children dying

[@kaelinreads6748]

I have Small Spaces! It looks so good! Got to get to that!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Ooh definitely read it!

[@kaelinreads6748]

I love Archie!! I may need to read that one!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

It's on Hoopla if your library has the elibrary!

[@letsgetfictional4711]

Halloween Fiend has the perfect spooky vibes, it legitimately creeped me out! I'm always looking for more short story collections and Autumn Crow is definitely on my list 😁 thanks for sharing these, happy October 🎃 ~Laura

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Ah yes I'm glad you agree about Halloween Fiend. Hope you have a good spooky season!

[@tiboraranyossi9263]

Nice recommendations video 😊 I added some to my TBR 😉

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Awesome! Thanks

[@rahulanand1136]

try "The Silent Companions " its good

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Thanks. I might have to chexk that one out

[@opheliasgrace]

Well, I was interested in Halloween Fiend until you said animal harm. I can stomach anything but that.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Aw yeah I understand. That's why I try to do those content warnings when I remember

[@kristinestaples7607]

Yes! I was going to say the same thing. That is literally the ONLY thing I can't take.

[@kristinestaples7607]

@@TheShadesofOrange i thank you too for mentioning that. I've DNF'd books because of this, so I appreciate the warning.

[@karamarie6781]

Agreed!

[@Septembergirl70]

Thank you SO much for giving a warning for animal abuse/etc. I wish everyone would do that - now I know to stay away from that book!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I'll admit, I don't always remember, but I try to give content warnings for animal abuse because I know a lot of people avoid those books

[@dewey5978]

You want scary. I bought some tide pods and someone sharpened the bag. Got 2 paper cuts from that nightmare bag. Gonna face off with it using sand paper later tonight.

[@horror-sickness]

This month is such a good one for me to get all the book recommendaions. I really love anything that has to do with Halloween...can not lie. I already wanted to read Halloween Fiend last year and I did not get to it, hopefully this year 🎃 The Last Harvest is still undead on my shelves....the shame 😂🙈

[@esliet]

Binge watching your channel , excellent horror

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Thank you

[@gillianhall7250]

The tatteredemon is now on my kindle! 🎃

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Ooh yay! I hope you enjoy it!

[@Zuvona]

Added ALL of them 😂

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Yay!!

[@patrickpanuco89]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Pet Sematary by Stephen King are my favorite books to read during Halloween.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Love Pet Sematery... still need to read Frankenstein 🙈

[@LiteraryStoner]

I enjoyed Halloween Fiend (I've read it, I think last year). Great list :) My favorite book to read during this time of year is Frankenstein (1818). It's a book I *must* read every year this time of year.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

That's awesome. Frankenstein intimates me 😬

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

Hey

[@cherryactually]

The horror short story collection "Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked" by Christa Carmen definitely fits the season. Multiple stories were set during All Hallow's Eve/Halloween! My favorite things about this collection are the vivid imagery and the fact that each story is centered on women. 😔

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Ooh I didn't know that about that collection!