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Happy Halloween: Five Books I read this Spooky Season.

 Happy Halloween🎃👻🍬 

You know I love all things Spooky and every year for Halloween, I try to read some spooky and mystery books. 

Here are five books I read this year in honour of Halloween. 









Happy Halloween my Spooky 👻🐈‍⬛👽🎃👻 Pals. 
Five books I read leading up to Halloween. 
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Finally read Dracula and since it's such a big part of our cultural Zeitgeist, I feel like I knew this story through osmosis. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it immensely and was surprised how easy it was to read and accessible the writing was. Also watched two film adaptations. One made in 1992 by Fransis Ford Coppola (which was so campy and weird). The other produced by Wes Craven (who I love) which was fun but very, very not true to text. Both films are available on YouTube. 

Mariana Enriquez was a revelation. I cannot believe it took me this long to finally find my way to her work. She writes like a dream about fairly nightmarish fare. Can't wait to read more of her twisted tales. I gave both these books 4 🌟🌟🌟🌟 and apart from just the creepy, scary and gory subject matter, I also absolutely love her writing style. So even if you don't enjoy horror, read her stories for the writing alone


Then I read a very trope-y horror novel about the Boogeymen which was fun. This was a young adult novella which I read in one sitting. 

And read the new Paula Hawkins..literally just finished it and this one was a bit of a miss. Painfully obvious and the twists weren't nearly twisty enough. Kinda mid tbh. I have higher expectations. 

Hope you have a spooky day 🎃. I plan on watching as many horror films as I can. 





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