Staff Picks: Spooky Reads
It’s spooky season, and PFL staff love a creepy read! Browse the list for some of our newest favorites and current thrills.
A picture book in which we learn how all the classic monsters say goodnight.
Perfect middle grade seasonal horror
WWI with a supernatural element
Maybe you’ve seen the 2013 film starring Scarlett Johansson and her signature dead-eyed stare? The movie isn’t bad, but the book is so much better.
Unreliable narrator and so therefore extra spooky.
Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington
This study of women as movie monsters in 21st-c. cinema is a satisfying (if at times irksomely postmodern) update on Barbara Creed’s classic (at times irksomely psychoanalytical) The Monstrous Feminine.
Palestinian-American author Helm’s debut novel follows three women’s troubled return to their ancestral home in the city of Haifa, lost to the family after the 1948 Nakba and now tainted by a sickly haunting.
An art historical treatment of women artists’ involvement in spiritualism.
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse
Horror criticism meets memoir meets the most incredible filmography of celluloid madwomen, all served up in a gorgeous full-color coffee table book.
A zombie story in an isolated Maine island community, except the zombies are… coral? So much fun!
The classic I remember from my own childhood that my children are currently enjoying.
Spores of Doom edited by Aaron Worth
