Welcome to my regular Thursday feature, Turning off the TV! In this feature I recommend books similar to TV shows or films you may have enjoyed, both series and specific episodes. This is a special Horror October edition of the feature, with lots more recommendations under a general theme. Obviously, the theme is horror (surprise, surprise!), but I’ve separated the books out by the main element of the story and suggested a film for each one. Each cover leads to the Goodreads page for the book.
Haunted houses e.g. Poltergeist
Experimentation e.g. Splice
Ghosts e.g. Paranormal Activity
Werewolves e.g. The Howling
Terrifying beasts e.g. Trollhunter
Vampires e.g. Nosferatu
Rinn Reads 
The Terror started me on a reading digression based on some historical facts. I did a long review, but my 6 word summary: Engrossing. Cold. Starvation. Horror. History. Myth. The Historian was also very good, and The Turn of the Screw is terrifically eery!
Suggestion: Renfield: The Slave of Dracula
http://bookgarden.blogspot.com/2007/10/renfield-slave-of-dracula-rip-challenge.html
I feel like I need to read more classics, so The Turn of the Screw is totally fitting 🙂
I read my first Gaiman recently and can’t believe I have not read his stuff earlier. I am definitely adding The Graveyard Book to my TBR list!
It’s not a really creepy one, but it’s atmospheric and… well, Gaiman-like. I’m pretty sure anyone who has read his books knows what I mean by that, he’s very unique. 🙂
I would add “The Shining” by Stephen King under Haunted Houses (although the setting of the book is in a hotel).
Tssk didn’t even think of that one and I love it! Nice suggestion 🙂
For what it is worth I LOVE Lonely Werewolf Girl, though it is more clan politics and a bit of humor than horror. Great, great book.
Yeah, not so much horror, but definitely a GREAT werewolf book 😀 I never expected it to be so witty!
There is something about Ghost books that makes me more scared than other paranormal creatures like werewolves. Perhaps because there are more stories about real life ghost situations. I liked Anna dressed in blood and I have to pick up the sequel soon. Haunted house: The fall by Bethany Griffin. Vampires: Kagawa – The immortal rules.
I can totally understand that! There are just so many urban legends to do with ghosts out there.
I have read lots of horror and I can generally say that I like contemporary, gritty, realistic horror. I don’t mind a supernatural element now and again, but I don’t like the “alternative world” books, where everyone has some kind of superpower.
I used to read alot of King and Koontz but then I grew tired of the over-writing- Nowadays I am not particularly loyal to any one writer, and I read alot of crime.
I like to switch between. The realistic stuff is normally a lot scarier though…