House in Amityville, New York, where the Lutz family fled from their I won’t sell your information.Probably almost everyone has heard about the famous so-called haunted GIVEAWAY: Win a signed hardcover of Amity by using the rafflecopter. And while it is not actually scary at all, I also adore Peter Brown’s My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I am Not.), which has a great message and turns the “scary grown-up” angle on its ear.ĭon’t miss tomorrow’s stops at Book Chic Club and Book Briefs I also devoured (no pun intended) Courtney Summers’ This is Not a Test, thanks to the pathos and humanity she brought to the zombie trope.Īnd finally, if you want to get your little one hooked on horror from day one, there are some fantastic spooky picture books out there! (Grimms’ fairy tales, original flavor, anyone?) The wild things of the eponymous Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) were pretty intense for me as a small child at bedtime.

Atmospheric, chilling, and a phenomenally unreliable narrator. I have to shout-out to the brilliant Adele Griffin’s Tighter, an update of Henry James’ classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. Psychological horror done right-est.Īs for YA horror, it’s a genre that is not as populated as you might think, once you filter out paranormal romance, sci-fi, and dystopian from the category. I consciously modeled a lot of Connor’s journey in Amity after Jack Torrance.Īnd of course, I have to mention (again) Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, which, as discussed, is the absolute number one ne plus ultra haunted house tale. His Overlook Hotel as a sentient being, a re-imagined nexus of evil a la Shirley Jackson’s Hill House, is iconic, and I also love the larger question of whether a person is innately evil, or becomes evil under an external influence. I’m an enormous groupie of all King’s work, but perhaps more than any of his other novels, The Shining is the one I come back to time and again. Ooh, I love this topic, because, as you may have guessed, I LOVE scary stories!Īt the very top of the list would have to be Stephen King’s The Shining. Stick around to the end to win a signed copy of Amity! I would LOVE to welcome Micol Ostow to Good Books & Good Wine today! Micol is author of upcoming YA horror novel, Amity and she’s here to share her favorite horror novels with us.

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