Welcome to the October New Release Giveaway Hop! Which, incidentally, I host now.
I will be giving away any October 2017 new release of your choice, up to $17. The giveaway is international, as long as The Book Depository ships there free of charge (find that out here!) Oh, and if you are a US winner, I will most likely ship from Amazon- because it will be there for you sooner!) If you prefer, I will send a Kindle edition via Amazon gift. (Please note: You may only chose ONE of these options!)
And now, the books!
Now that we’ve hit October, ALL the books are coming out! I have adored so many of these already, too!
Rin Chupeco’s The Girl in the Well and The Suffering. I slept with the lights on.
172 Hours on the Moon – that book FREAKED ME OUT. Like seriously. So freaky.
As a rule, I don’t read scary books. It is just not my thing, but I finished Haunting the Deep and it’s sort of halloween themed.
I’m not much for scary novels, so I can’t really say.
“What is the scariest book you’ve read?” I read one of the Hannibal Lecter books years ago. But I’d never go see the movie!
I don’t read scary books, because I am a Scaredy Cat!
I don’t read many outright scary books, but both Invisible Monsters by Palahniuk and Coraline by Neil Gaiman are pretty creepy.
I generally don’t read scary books. I think the farthest I’ve gone outside of my comfort zone is to read The Graveyard Book.
I don’t really read outright horror, so the scariest book I’ve ever read was probably The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud. It’s an alt-history about ghost hunters – I was careful not to read too close to bedtime, but I really enjoyed it! It has a very creative setting and tense pacing.
I’m reading There’s Someone Inside Your House right now and I’m not far but I can feel it’s gonna get pretty scary!
I’ve read a lot of scaary books so this was a tough one. I decided to go with House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Reading it is the literary equivalent of climbing Mount Everest. There is a lot going on. It starts out very slowly (you have to be patient) and then you will be entranced. There’s a sense of dread lingering always…leaking through the pages. There’s nothing more fearful than the unknown and the book is full of unknown, unexplained horrors. It’s weird layout and endless footnotes make it one of the most atmospheric horror books out there. The book is a maze, a frightening enigma…a dark door to a dreadful world.
For outright scares I’d have to go with Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter series; much more atmospheric and powerful than the films as we are allowed glimpses into Lecter’s midset.
oops, should have read ‘mindset’!
IT, freaked me out.
I don’t read any books which will scare me. I only read contemporary romance and cozy mysteries.
I love halloween but I am a scary person and don’t like scary books or movies 🙂
I don’t like scary books, though I love mysteries. I read Anne Rule’s book about Ted Bundy when I was about 14 and it was so disturbing I’ve avoided true crime ever since.
Pet Sematary by Stephan King is still the scarest book I have read!
Cujo & Pet Sematary by Stephen King scared the crap out of me.
I don’t read scary books, but I do enjoy a Cozy Mystery!
I avoid scary books, so I can’t think of one.
Any Stephen King scares me witless.
Stephen King’s Cujo – scariest book I’ve read…so far. Lol
My family dog was bit by a rabid raccoon. He literally went crazy and attacked me. It left me traumatized. Then, like an idiot, I read Cujo and watched the movie – never again!!!
Thanks so much for The Hop!!!
Anything by Darren Shan gets me in the Halloween mood!!!
Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King. It’s a collection of short stories, Autopsy Room Four and The Road Virus Heads North actually gave me nightmares. XD
Hands down, one of the scariest YA books I’ve read is Diviners by Libba Bray. It had it’s funny moments, but anything that starts with a summoning ghosts is going to be terrifying… if done well.
Also just about anything my Dean Koontz. Intensity has left me terrified of gas stations.
I don’t read scary books. I only like romances! 🙂
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson does it for me.
CARRIE!
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
I don’t really read scary books, but a suspense/thriller type of book I read that I thought was really well done was Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas.
It’s a tie between Witgin These Walls by Ania Ahlborn and Follow You Home by Mark Edwards. Both books sent tingles down my spine and I couldn’t even bring myself to get up and pee in the bathroom. These books made my imagination run wild during the night ?
The first horror novel I read and the only one that’s truly scared me so far was I Remember You. I highly recommend it!
I’ve never read a scary book before to be honest.
Stephen King’s The Shining really scares me even today!!!
Thanks for the giveaway!! The villain in False Covenent (Whiddershin’s Adventures #2) was so terrifying. I’ve never had my skin crawl so much.
If you read m/m, Evan Gilbert’s BROWN-EYED DEVIL is a YA that terrified me!
I don’t really do horror books! I get way too scared and well… my imagination makes it worse than the actual fear factor in the book itself. But I do find books like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale so creepy because well, it’s too close to reality…
The House on Hackman’s Hill by Joan Lowery Nixon was a pretty scary and creepy book to me! I read it when I was in the fifth grade and it freaked me out lol!
I haven’t read a horror book in so long, R.L.Stine books are lit. :3
Thank you for hosting the giveaway. I would pick Ringer!!
Watchers by Dean Koontz is the first one that comes to mind.
I haven’t read too many scary books, maybe in a dark dark wood by ruth ware.
Any book by Stephen King can be very scary. The Mr. Mercedes trilogy was great. I have a copy of all three books and will probably read all of them again closer to Halloween this year 🙂
I never read scary books, and I likely will never do it! xD But if you want some thriller, I’d recommend Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas.
The answer to that will always be Stephen King. He writes some scary, scary stuff. I recommend Cujo!
I’m not a fan of horrors because I think they’re a little boring, so I don’t have any recommendation. ?
as someone who freaking loves halloween, I’ve never actally read a scary book
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz will bring back memories childhood sleepovers and campfires.
I’m a huge scaredy cat, so there’s a Middle Grade book called Demon Dentist, that I found pretty scary.
I don’t read any horror books although I have a few on my list.
I don’t think that I’ve read a scary book yet.
The Diviners Series is absolutely horrifyingly creepy. I made the mistake of reading part of it at night. If you’re a chicken (like me), 10/10 would not recommend doing this.
I don’t know about THE scariest book I’ve read, but for sure these books have scared me: The Diviners by Libba Bray, Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, and Slasher Girls & Monster Boys edited by April Genevieve Tucholke.
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics was pretty creepy.
House by Frank Paretti and Ted Dekker probably the scariest lately
The scariest book that I’ve read is The Shining by Stephen King