It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for ‘Top Ten Tuesday’ from The Broke and the Bookish. I wasn’t sure I would manage the Halloween Freebie but I had a look through the books I’ve read and I have enough for a post, just maybe not 10.
As always, in no particular order. Links are to reviews, pictures are affiliate links to amazon.
I read this modern day Dracula story when I was at uni. At the time a lived in a house where my room had lots of fitted cupboards, I used to wake-up after having funny dreams and check all the cupboards before I could go back to sleep. Despite (or maybe because of) this it remains a favorite of mine.
Probably any of Murakami’s books could fit here (except maybe Norwegian Wood which is sort of…normal). I chose ‘After Dark’ because of the storyline with the girl who gets transported to a sort of parallel universe inside the TV, it’s a bit hard to explain which is why I skipped reviewing it, but it’s pretty classic Murakami style which I love
I could probably have put any of the Potter books too, but I chose Chamber because of the voice in the walls, it’s just spooky. (Half-Blood Prince was a close second with the inferi)
What would happen if the devil was sent to Earth to live as a human? This humorous book answers this question
The Radleys- Matt Haig
A family of recovering vampires are trying to fit in in a normal neighbourhood. Can it work?
Is the old house haunted? And is it possible to fall in love with a ghost?
Bellman and Black- Diane Setterfield
I read Bellman and Black before Setterfield’s much loved ‘The Thirteenth Tale’ and I remember it better. It concerns Mr Bellman and his strange and mysterious business partner ‘Black’
A more classic ghost story than ‘The Glass Guardian’. I somehow missed reviewing this one
The Lucifer Effect- Philip Zimbardo
This one is scary because it’s true. It chronicles Zimbardo’s famous ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’ where students were randomly assigned roles as ‘prisoners’ or ‘guards’
