Items tagged "Horror"

October Country: The Horror of Ray Bradbury

If you’ve heard of Ray Bradbury before, you’ve heard of Fahrenheit 451 (DB 34963). A slightly deeper cut would be the famous Martian Chronicles(DB 26787). A deeper cut, and some of my personal favorite things he has written is his horror. A podcast I really enjoy has been going through some of them for October, […]

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/october-country-the-horror-of-ray-bradbury/

An Old Friend in a New Format

Looking back on it, I definitely had low expectations when reaching into the depths of my mother’s childhood closet. I was an avid reader in middle school, and I was instructed to dig through a cardboard box stuffed with paperbacks to see if I wanted to keep any. I expected to come across old classics, […]

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/an-old-friend-in-a-new-format/

October Means Dark: Or, How I Love Horror

As anyone who knows me can tell you, I am really into horror. I enjoy this time of year because I can let some small portion of this love out and people just think I’m in the spirit of the season. I should mention I’m not into slasher horror with monsters saving teenagers from their […]

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/october-means-dark-or-how-i-love-horror/

Lovecraft!

I find that readers either like HP Lovecraft or hate him, or have never heard of him before. Not many are ambivalent. The man wrote wonderfully creepy and demented books, and he wrote what he lived. That is not to say that monsters and Cthulhu are real by any stretch of the imagination. They are […]

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/lovecraft/

Throwback Thursday: Does Size Matter?

Get ready for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s It by reading the source novel.

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/throwback-thursday-size-matter/

Throwback Thursday: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night–And Straight Into My Movie-Loving Heart

As someone who doesn’t really like many horror films, I absolutely loved A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/throwback-thursday-girl-walks-home-alone-night-straight-movie-loving-heart/

Three Creepy Ghost Stories for Halloween

This is the week leading up to Halloween. So of course I felt obligated to make a post about books that would be great to read over the holiday. And by obligated, I mean I’m super excited about this list because I’ve been super into horror lately. So here are some books that you should pick up to get in the right holiday spirit.

https://www.carnegielibrary.org/three-creepy-ghost-stories-halloween/