Last year in the sister website . . . With Intent to Commit Horror, I compiled a list of horror books librarians might want to gather for a display and patrons might enjoy reading. I’ve begun planning a new list for this year, but I’d thought I’d share last year’s list — for those of you who can’t get enough.
Horror for Halloween: A 2007 Booklist
This is a booklist for librarians and anyone else interested in good scary reading this Halloween season. I’ve selected a mix of paperbacks and hardcovers for this list and tried to stay within 2006-2007 publication dates but I wasn’t always successful. Feel free to print up this list and use it as your personal checklist or use it to create a display or bookmarks.
The titles are linked to the Clevnet Web Catalog.
African-American Authors:
The Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Hardcover, 2005)
The Wicked: A Vampire Huntress Legend Novel by L. A. Banks (Trade Paperback, 2007)
Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Anthology:
Horror: The Best of the Year, 2006 edited by John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace (Trade Paperback, 2006)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: The Year’s Best Terror Tales edited by Stephen Jones (Trade Paperback, 2006)
Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams vol. 3 edited by Brandon Massey (Trade Paperback, 2007)
Apocalyptic Horror:
The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene (Mass Market Paperback, 2006)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Hardcover, 2006)
Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel by David Wellington (Trade Paperback, 2007)
Ghosts:
Bones of the Barbary Coast by Daniel Hecht (Hardcover, 2006)
Chasing the Dead by Joe Schrieber (Hardcover, 2006)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Hardcover, 2007)
Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due (Hardcover, 2006)
Golems:
Mr. Hands by Gary Braunback (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Historical Horror:
The Queen of Wolves: A Novel of the Vampyricon by Douglas Clegg (Hardcover, 2007)
The Terror: A Novel by Dan Simmons (Hardcover, 2007)
Humourous Horror:
Fangland by John Marks (Hardcover, 2007)
Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez (Hardcover, 2005)
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore (Hardcover, 2007)
Vamped by David Sosnowski (Hardcover, 2004)
Ohio Horror:
Blood and Rust by S. A. Swiniarski (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Darkness Wakes by Tim Waggoner (Mass Market Paperback 2006)
Mystery Horror:
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris (Hardcover, 2007)
Poltergeist by Kat Richardson (Trade Paperback, 2007)
The Unquiet: A Thriller by John Connolly (Hardcover, 2007)
Wraith by Phaedra Weldon (Trade Paperback, 2007)
Romantic Horror:
Bite Me if You Can by Linsay Sands (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Dead Sexy by Tate Hallaway (Trade Paperback, 2007)
The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires by Katie MacAlister (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Shapeshifters:
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Ivy Cole and the Moon by Gina Farago (Hardcover, 2005)
Kitty Takes a Holiday by Carrie Vaughan (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Stray by Rachel Vincent (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
The Theme Books:
Halloweenland by Al Sarrantonio (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Hallows Eve by Al Sarrantonio (Mass Market Paperback, 2004)
Horrorween by Al Sarrantonio (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Things That Go Bump in the Night:
The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
The Ruins by Scott Smith (Hardcover, 2006)
Things Mortal Man Was Never Meant to Chat With:
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz (Hardcover, 2006)
Vampires:
13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale by David Wellington (Trade Paperback, 2007)
Baltimore,: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Hardcover, 2007)
Bottomfeeder by B. F. Fingerman (Trade Paperback, 2007)
They Hunger by Scott Nicholson (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
Valentine’s Resolve: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E. E. Knight (Hardcover, 2007)
Vampire Detectives:
The Blood Books vol. 1-3 by Tanya Huff (Mass Market Paperback, 2006)
No Dominion by Charlies Huston (Trade Paperback, 2006)
X-Rated Bloodsuckers by Mario Acevedo (Trade Paperback, 2007)
Worlds With Monsters:
For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison (Hardcover, 2007)
The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton (Hardcover, 2007)
No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong (Hardcover, 2007)
White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Hardcover, 2007)
Zombies:
Cell by Stephen King (Hardcover, 2006)
Dead City by Joe McKinney (Mass Market Paperback, 2006)
Dead Sea by Brian Keene (Mass Market Paperback, 2007)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (Hardcover, 2006)
Using This List
When I first published this list, I published it under a creative commons liscense. I’ve removed it. Print copies of the list, use the list as you like. If you attribute it to me that’s great but no body will be hurt if you don’t. If you use this list, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section. If you think I left off somebody who deserved to be on the list let me know that too.
(Based on a post originally published in . . . With Intent to Commit Horror)
I just wanted to thank you for posting this list. I did a book display highlighting horror books from our collection, and I found your blog post VERY helpful! I’ve publicly thank you: http://firstconclusions.com/2008/11/18/oh-the-horror/
Hey Anna,
It’s comments like yours that make all the work worth it — well, okay all that work was fun, however, it still made my day to hear from you.
Thank you for mentioning me on your blog. That was really very nice. Please, let me know if there is ever anything I or my fellow RATS can do to help other librarians out.
–Greg
P.S. I enjoyed reading First Conclusions. Great work!
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