Oof, I’m starting late this year. I’ve been thinking about this for awhile but just haven’t jumped in yet. (Side note: yesterday I finished Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died—a book that I was vaguely aware of, but then one day realized that this whole time that 10-year-old H has been blasting through early-2000s Nickelodeon shows, I’ve been watching Jennette McCurdy! Anyway, that connection made me curious enough to read her memoir, and it was a heartbreaker, although not quite scary enough to count as a Halloween read.)
So—I went through my Storygraph “to read” list, and pulled out some recent things that I’ve saved that count as horror. Here’s what I’m planning to read for the rest of this month:
The description of this online is “Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary’s Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler.” Sold.
I really liked Tender is the Flesh last year, and I’ve been thinking about trying to read more short stories, so I think this is perfect.
I requested the audiobook version of this at the library, so we’ll see if it comes in quickly enough—I don’t currently have any audiobooks going and it would be good to have something on hand.
Another short story collection. I recently reread Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Other Stories, and was reminded again how much I like her work and I feel like that’s what I aspire to write like. I hadn’t seen this collection before but picked it up at the local bookstore a few weeks ago because I thought it would be perfect for this month.
And then finally—not exactly horror, but I think I’m going to read this with H at bedtimes. It’s high time she knows this story.
The Cameraphone Diaries 