Creepy Reads for Halloween 🎃
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Lots of dark books for the autumn/winter months! ‘Show More’ for links. xx
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FRANKLIN AND LUNA GO TO THE MOON tinyurl.com/yb...
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THINGS MENTIONED:
The Dumb House tinyurl.com/h7...
A Summer of Drowning tinyurl.com/yx...
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The Butcher’s Hook tinyurl.com/ya...
Under the Skin tinyurl.com/ya...
How to Breathe Underwater tinyurl.com/ya...
Things We Say in the Dark tinyurl.com/yx...
Blue Beyond Blue tinyurl.com/yc...
Revenge tinyurl.com/y5...
The Dreamers tinyurl.com/yc...
Ghost Wall tinyurl.com/yx...
Notes on a Scandal tinyurl.com/yc...
Lullaby tinyurl.com/y2...
How To Make Friends with a Ghost tinyurl.com/yb...
Witch tinyurl.com/y3...
The Exhibit hyacinthgirlpre...
Frankenstein tinyurl.com/ya...
The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night tinyurl.com/ya...
Frankissstein tinyurl.com/y6...
My Name is Monster tinyurl.com/y2...
Poor Things tinyurl.com/zx...
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Frankenstein in Baghdad tinyurl.com/y5...
Raising the Dead tinyurl.com/y9...
Romantic Outlaws: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley tinyurl.com/yc...
Perfume tinyurl.com/y3...
The Book Collector tinyurl.com/yb...
Death: The Great Mystery of Life tinyurl.com/y2...
Ghost: A Cultural History tinyurl.com/y6...
What To Do When Someone Dies tinyurl.com/y2...
The Loosening Skin tinyurl.com/y4...
The Beauty tinyurl.com/y6...
The Dollmaker tinyurl.com/y4...
In Cold Blood tinyurl.com/y2...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tinyurl.com/lz...
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Last Ones Left Alive tinyurl.com/yy...
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WHO I AM
Hello, my name's Jen. I'm an award-winning poet and short story writer. My debut short story collection 'The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night' is published by Two Roads, and my children's books 'Franklin's Flying Bookshop,’ ‘Franklin and Luna Go To The Moon’ and ‘Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales’ are published by Thames and Hudson. I'm also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' series, 'The Bookshop Book,' 'The Hungry Ghost Festival’ and ‘The Girl Aquarium.’
I run writing workshops, give talks at universities & book festivals on a variety of topics, judge literary prizes, and take on freelance writing and editing. If you would like to speak with me about the possibility of working together, please get in touch via email: jenvcampbell@gmail.com x
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Hello Jen, I've been binge-watching your videos these days, it's so cozy and relaxing to hear you chat passionately about books! I wish I had friends like you in real life just wanted to say that you're amazing and love your taste in books so much. I've been reading some of your recommendations and I've liked them all so far, thank you for real I'm grateful for your existence 😊
And please can you make more videos related to your "if you liked this book" tag or graphic novels / short books? Those are my favorites.
Four of these guys are on my TBR for this month, so I need to get a wiggle on! Perfume next I think! xx
I actually really love your quick fire recommendation videos, they're always really well-spoken with a perfect couple of lines for each book that just gets me into the mood to read!
I cannot thank you enough! I love watching your videos and being introduced to all the books you share... I have added SO many to my TBR list because of you!
These seasonal recommendations always add a ton of books to my TBR! You have amazing taste, Jen Campbell! :)
Oooo yes I've been hoping you'd do a video like this so thank you! I really want to pick up Kirsty Logan's What We Say In The Dark. I'm really enjoying short story collections at the moment. I'm reading Mouthful Of Birds which is creepy and unsettling and weird which is just what I want when the nights draw in ❤️ a creepy read I loved was the Silent Companions by Laura Purcell 😊x
I am MASSIVELY embracing the spooky season this year, so this was perfect✨ Blue Beyond Blue sounds brilliant.
Lullaby sounds SO interesting!!!! Also I remember the movies Notes on a Scandal and didn't realize it was a book as well!
The book is fab; really recommend it, even if you have seen the film x
So many dark, dark, dark books... so little time. And this is my favorite time of year. You are the very best!!!
Caitlin Doughty has also written "From Here to Eternity" - she looks at the funerally practices of cultures from around the world.
Yup, she's got quite a few books out now.
I am currently reading and loving The Troop by Nick Cutter ....
I read Romantic Outlaws last year and I absolutely loved it! It's a chunky one, but so rewarding and it really puts the women and their lives, achievements and experiences centre stage.
You might like The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett. Humorus Horror with that constant tension you mention.
Romantic Outlaws was wonderful. Perfume is really, really disturbing. I read In Cold Blood more than 20 years ago and have never forgotten it. Ghost Wall is slowly, relentlessly terrifying and brilliant.
You have the best reccomendations!
Thank you x
Last October I read The Dumb House and Under the Skin after hearing you recommend them, and I've just finished The Book Collector! I've always appreciated your love for dark stories and have found that your recommendations are spot-on. Thank you for bringing these creepy books into my life!
You're most welcome; I'm glad you enjoy them. x
I love halloween, its just a fab time of year for sure😊.
The terror is a goos supernatral/ nature, horror book, but it is a bit overly long
I read Romantic Outlaws last month, loved it, and am currently reading Frankenstein (again only this time an Annotated edition by Leslie S. Klinger)
Thanks for all the new books. I do a lot of rereading in October, so my library is mostly antiquarian and, until your video, I’ve had awful luck with young readers since they never recommend books I want to read. Nothing wrong with antique, of course, since Angela Carter is included n that group, along with Mary S. (Wonder if they would have liked each other? ) But fresh blood, ahem, enlivens a TBR/TBRR stack now and then. Hope you recommend scary movies, too. The young people who recommend October movies seem to favor the graphically gory, disgusting stuff. Have you watched Season 1 of Penny Dreadful? Set in Victorian London features Dracula, Dorian Gray and Victor F. as well as witch and werewolf lore. Take a look, if not. That’s, mostly, horror done well. Skip seasons two and three. The creator had the admirable good sense to stop after Season 3, even though fans wanted more. Thanks for your booklist, it will carry me through many, many Octobers.
Thanks for these recommendations Jen. I’m currently reading The Flower Girls and am really enjoying it - it does a good job as thriller that also explores wider issues around redemption and the public consumption of ‘evil’. Next up I’ve got Follow Me To The Ground out from the library which looks spooky and very strange and possibly up your dark street 💀
I’m reading My Name is Monster right now, and I plan read Frankenstein this month as well. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Monster.
The only 2 of those I've read are Frankenstein and In Cold Blood. I read both over 30 years ago, so it might be fun to read them again and see if I get anything new from them.
Some of the books you mentioned sound really great, I'll have to check into a couple.
Let me know if you do ☺️
"The Collector" by John Fowles is creepy!
The Dumb House is a bit like that ☺️ I think if you like one, you’ll like the other.
@@jenvcampbell, that's good to know! Thank you :)
Hi Jen, lovely recommendations. I love your channel and it's the one of the very few channels I come back to too often. I was wondering if you have ever reviewd Laura Purcell's books? If you have I might've missed it but it would be great if you reviewed one of her more recent ones. Thank you!
I’ve tried her but they’re not for me, sadly. x
I read The Butcher's Hook and The Dreamers a while back, and while neither are "scary" per se, both are fantastic reads and I really loved Butcher Hook in particular. Last October I read Ghost a History for my monthly nonfiction read and it's very thorough and fairly academic, so if you're into that type of in depth study then you'll enjoy it (I did). For my nonfiction pick this month I'm reading Monster She Wrote, The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger. It's a new book, just came out in the US. It has really lovely vintage style illustrations also, which I find really adds to the overall reading pleasure. The Doll Factory is on my TBR, which I hear is a bit of a Victorian gothic/macabre style so definitely looking forward to that! The House on Vesper Sands is another dark neo Victorian, but from what I've heard it also has humor so that's on my list as well. The ghost picture book you showed is adorable! Great video with lots of great recommendations.
The Dumb House is ace, and quite short, so easy to read! I prefer the book of Under the Skin to the film. Unusually, I think I'm glad I saw the film first, because if I'd seen it after reading the book it would have lost a lot of it's mystery, whereas the book is so darn weird and different from the film, that having previously seen the film didn't spoil the book in the slightest. The abridged audiobook of Lullaby was on Radio 4 a few months ago, might still be on iPlayer!
Jen thanks for the nice long list! Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you especially for introducing me to the Nicci French novels❤️ (a few videos ago?). Read my way right through Blue Monday and Tuesday’s Gone and started Waiting for Wednesday this morning 🥰. Frieda is marvelously perceptive and the twists not (too) predictable. I’d recommend Woman in the Window by AJ Finn as the best thriller I’ve read all year because of the writing. Sorry it doesn’t really belong here as a Creepy October book, but I just thought of it now and am not likely to search out your earlier requests for thriller recommendations. Anyway thanks again👍🙏
Always up for a thriller recommendation! Thank you, Karen x
I would recommend The People Who Eat Darkness which is a true crime book about a young british girl who disappeared off the streets of Tokyo..it is an interesting chatacter study of all the people involved written by a journalist...and creepy.
I just read 'Under the skin'. Loved it! Have you seen the adaptation?
Yes, I actually saw that first. I like them both for different reasons.
@@jenvcampbell I like both for different reasons too!
@@michellewdcosta I saw the Scarlett J one. Who’s in the other.
so many interesting books! thank you for sharing ❤
Interesting. I've never heard of most of these. Will have to look up some.
They’re all linked in the description box if you want to read blurbs etc.
I’m sure you know The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson and the Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. The former is set during the Lancashire Witch Trials and is a tour de force of popery witchery, popery witchery, as the old, old, old saying goes. The Historian is 676 pages but it’s riveting all the way through. “The story of a young girl who is plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark 15th century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages.” An old one but I just read it in October 2020 and may again this year. Second Nature by Alice Hoffman is also old (1994) but I reread it every few Octobers to enjoy the story of a woman who, without understanding why, rescues a man held in a psychiatric hospital because his doctor suspects he may have been raised my wolves. The woman’s family and small close knit community respond to the stranger in interesting ways. Short, easy read, evocative. Seventh Heaven by Hoffman explores a similar theme: what happens when a divorcée and her young son, who reads minds, moves into an outwardly “normal” middle class enclave, bringing a little, not entirely welcome magic. I almost wish a better writer would rewrite and develop these books - or even Hoffman. Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Land is outstanding, also a short, easy read but full of darkness and mystery, told by a boy somewhere between five and 12, who wouldn’t remember what happened that summer for almost 40 years.
I enjoyed The Ocean at the End of the Lane, really didn't like Daylight Gate (though I generally love Jeanette's work). Haven't heard of the Kostova. Thanks for sharing. x
@@jenvcampbell I would love to hear what you didn’t like about Daylight. Too Hammer-y? Did wonder why she wrote for Hammer Books.
@@63artemisia63 I read it the day it came out, so it's been a long time. I just remember thinking it wasn't like her other work at all - felt rushed, like she was writing to someone else's spec. and deadline. x
I really want to read Notes On A Scandal now
Okay thanks for the Christmas list to give to my parents (I love horror all year round)
I am reading , The witches of the glass castle . By Gabriella Lenore .
Thank you for your creepy reads .
I Will add a few to my Tbr, for next years autumn reads .
🐶Take care.
Just bought 'Blue Beyond Blue.' Thanks for the amazing reccomendations as always Jen! You have such great taste and I always find something that calls to my heart! Dark fairy tales, psychology, & Angela Carter! Yes please! (Would love to see an update video on modern fairy tales or retelling books/short stories that you love, in the future.) I'm currently writing a fairy tale retelling collection that intertwines autobiographical prose pieces. Its a meditation on memory (the blur between what's real and what isn't) and also looks at psychological trauma (the aftermath and the unlearning.) Do you have any more reccomendations off the top of your head for research that could help? Sending all the magic your way! 😊💖
Definitely - Bestiary by Lilly Hoang tinyurl.com/hgnqcbz x
@@jenvcampbell It sounds absoloutly gorgeous Jen! Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much. 🥰 x
I finally read The Dumb House earlier this month! Not going to lie I had to skip the part about the cat....... I also read Poor Things over the summer and absolutely adored it.
I think I may have blocked out the bit about the cat...
Perfume is very disturbing.
Yup!
I've had that one on my TBR shelf for a couple years now, so maybe I'll pull it out soon!
Any one ever tell you have really good taste in horror novels.
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I found Under the Skin absolutely boring.
Halloween is not till December
well I'm not reading the dreamers this year