FRIGHTFALL OCTOBER 2025

With Daily Readings:

DRACULA. Chapters: #27 Days: #15 ✅COMPLETE

✅COMPLETE. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury. Chapters: #54 Days: #14

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson. Chapter: #4 /Day #4

THE 31st TRICK-OR-TREATER by Ben Farthing:
Days: #October 26 /Days Read: #12

NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER by Richard Laymon. Chapters #8/Day #4.

A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER by Roger Zelazny. Chapters: October 6 / Day #1

The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. Edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. 2025. October 1-31. Stories: # Days: #

FRIGHTFALL Titles Read: 1. THE BOTTLE WITCH OF BRIMLEY by Linda DeMeulemeester. MG Spooky. Canadian. 9/01.

2. THE HAUNTER [GOOSEBUMPS MOST WANTED] Reread from October 2022. MG Horror.

3. HOUSE IN HELL by Clyde Lafferty. Horror/Hades.

4. NIGHT OF THE WENDIGO by Clyde Lafferty. Wendigo/Horror .

5. THE COWFER HOUSE by Clyde Lafferty. Cosmic/Haunted House Horror.

6. FERDINAND THE FOX SAVES THE DAY. NetGalley ARC Children.

7. CHRISTMAS PARTY DEMON by Wendy Dalrymple. (90's setting YA Horror)

8. NAMELESS THINGS by Ernest Jensen. Survival Horror/SF. Colorado.

9. ROBBIE THE ROBOT VACUUM AND HIS BIG ADVENTURE by Sara Biggs. Children. NetGalley. Children.

10. DARWIN'S BLADE. Hoopla Virtual. Crime/Noir/Contemporary.

11. BACKWOODS. KU Virtual. Black History Month. Supernatural Horror.

12. WHITEOUT. Hoopla Virtual. Antarctica. Thriller.

13. DRACULA. Mount TBR.

14. VOICES. KU Virtual SF./Horror

15. DARWIN'S BASTARDS. Hoopla Virtual SF

. 16. POTATO MAN: THE LIVING SUPERHERO PART II. KU Virtual. Comics. For Kindle Achievement

17. THE YETI: KU. Survival Horror.

18. COYOTE TALES by Thomas King. Hoopla Virtual. Native American Heritage Mythology.

19. PERCY JACKSON AND THE SEA OF MONSTERS. KU. Virtual 10/14. Graphic. For Kindle Achievement.

20. WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE. Mount TBR.

21. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. 10/15. Mount TBR.

22. CATCH YOUR DEATH by Ravena Guron. Hoopla Virtual October Book Club

23. I BOUGHT A HAUNTED SUMMER CAMP by Sam Whittaker.

24. DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE by H. P. Lovecraft. Classic Horror/SF.

25. THE HOUSE ON DOGWOOD COURT by Robert Lass. Haunted House.

26. "Usher II" in THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury. SF/Horror

27. "Outskirts of the Family" by Nicholas Licalsi. SF Sppoky AI. 28. "Ulalume" by Edgar Allan Poe. Mythology Spooky. 29. IT CAME FROM THE PUMPKIN PATCH by Chris Heinicke and Kate Reedwood. Wisconsin Small-Town Mutant Genetic Engineering Horror. 30. HALLOWEEN TREE by Ray Bradbury. Fantasy/Mythology/Halloween Horror/Pied Piper. 31. DARK SPIRITS: THE WATCHER by Lee Mountford (Book 1). Occult Horror/Paranormal. 32. I KILLED AN ELDRITCH TERROR ON MY CAMPING TRIP by Sam Whittaker.

in Progress: THE 31ST TRICK-OR-TREATER by Ben Farthing. Halloween Advent Calendar. Horror!

FRIGHTFALL TBR!🎃🎃🎃

September-October Daily Reads: HELL HOUSE by Richard Matheson. September-October. ✅ COMPLETE September
Dandelion Wine ✅ COMPLETE September & Something Wicked This Way Comes. September -October.
DYSTOPIA by Richard Christian Matheson [60 stories] September 1-October 30 ✅ COMPLETE September

FRIGHTFALL: THE COMPLETE GHOST STORIES. M. R. James
THE YETI.
SUCK-U-BUS.(DIABOLUS IN MUSICA BOOK 1) Occult Heavy Metal Horror.
CORROSIVE RAVENS. (DIABOLUS IN MUSICA BOOK 2)
THE WITCHES OF SCOTLAND: THE EDINBURGH. FILES BOOK 1.
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. Anthology/THE STAND. 34 tales, 1 per day October 1-28, 2 per day October 29-31.
THE DARK THING.
CARPATHIANS.
MOUNTAIN OF THE DEAD.
THE TERROR.
THE ABOMINABLE.
VEIL. Janz.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE FROM HELL.
BOTHELL HELL HOUSE: POLTERGEIST.
DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS. Archie Roy. Scottish Highlands.
9 titles by Richard Matheson. Everand. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE.

CASTLE MACABRE 2025 - FRIGHTFALL 2025

1. September 23 #1 I remember well where I was the first time I read this (unusual) and I reread in 2021 (and probably one or two other times). I don't know that it would be my favorite: that still goes to THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (book and Liam Neeson film) but certainly one of the top. I think this rereading, although it's still scary, I am more "aware" of the evil nature. The degradation. The total devotion to destroying anything righteous in humans. The dedication to turning humans toward pursuits animals wouldn't consider! Then I read the NYT revelation on Elon Musk's father, Errol, evil this AM! I started reading two days earlier than September 1, and try to read some a day, so I am reading December 23. Florence has already had three very ugly experiences (the middle one of which was really frightening to me). But I'll save those for later discussions. Also my thoughts on the incursion of "the Richard Laymon Effect," which I've also noticed in RM's I AM LEGEND. I'll be rereading THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE for Frightfall, and also Nancy A. Collins' RETURN TO HELL HOUSE (available on KU, thankfully, as is HELL HOUSE).;

SPRING INTO HORROR 2025

April 1-30

SPRING INTO HORROR 2025

I'll be going for Science Fiction Horror! Plus the good old Horror tropes!

Titles Read: 1. I Could Pee on This: and Other Poems by Cats . Own, Mount TBR (December 2013). POETRY Month.
2. Guess Again: Sneak Peek, Charlie Donlea. Suspense.
3. 🎃 When the Moon Hits Your Eye . SF Horror.
4. 🎃 The Ghost Station. KU. Greenland Plague Horror.
5. 🎃 Haunted Wastelands . Ghost Horror. Reread prior to reading Sequel (in Progress).
6. Nothing Rhymes with Orange Libby Virtual. Children, Humor.
7. 🎃Nuclear Ghosts (Sequel to Haunted Wastelands)
8. 🎃The Exorcism at 1600 Penn. NetGalley ARC, Graphic novel.
9. 🎃 Hitler's Graveyard: A Short Tale of Terror..own, Mount TBR. Nazi Necromancy.🤐🎃
10.🎃 Witchdoctorpoet. annual reread for National Poetry Month.
11. 🎃Jurassic Dead. Own, Mount TBR.
12.🎃 Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe. Mount TBR.
13. 🎃THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CATS. own, new.SF.
15. 🎃THE EXORCIST. own Mount TBR 2013. Reread (2014). 16. 🎃EXORCIST CODE. own, new. AI.
17. 🎃🎃🎃YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY GOES, Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Ghost Horror Mount TBR.
18. 🎃 The Accidental Exorcist. Mount TBR.
19. 🎃 LETTER SLOT. KU.
20.🎃 JACKKNIFE. KU.
21.🎃 THE INDIGO ROOM. KU
22. 🎃THE BLANKS. KU
23. 🎃 NIGHT AND DAY IN MISERY. KU.
24. 🎃 IT WAITS IN THE WOODS.KU.
25. 🎃 HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF LEO MORELAND VOLUME FOUR. ARC.
26. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃THE OMEN (40TH Anniversary 2019)
27. 🏳️‍🌈 DEVIL'S CHEW TOY.
28. WILD GOOSE CHASE by Kathy Broderick. Sequoia Children's Publishing. Hoopla Virtual.
29. 🎃HITLER'S MONSTERS. Hoopla Virtual. NF.
30. 🎃HITLER AND THE HAPSBURGS. Hoopla Virtual. NF.
31. 🎃♾🛸♾DECIPHER. Hoopla Virtual.
🎃[DNF: The Sentinel, Jeffrey Konvitz. Homophobia.] 32. 🎃Planetside by Michael Mammay. Book 1. SF/Horror.
33.🎃 Forsaken Fallout (Haunted Wastelands Book 3), Ian Fortey and Ron Ripley, Scare Street. Horror
34. 🎃Belly Up (Funjungle #1) by Stuart Gibbs. MG Suspense/Horror
29 = Horror

Proposed TBR:

The Exorcist
The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear. NF.
Welcome to Halycon.
Black Veil County Trilogy (3)
Legacy.
The Casebook of Atticus Priest: 3 by Mark Dawson: Paranormal.
Mothman Tales.
How to Create a Monster.
Fiend.
It Was Her House First.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds.
In These Hallowed Halls.
Kill Zone. Nuclear Horror/Natural Disaster.
-The Mothman Prophecies.
-Cold Eternity. SF Horror
-Cold Storage. SF Horror
-Cold Storage by David Koepp. Fungal Horror Masterpiece. Reread.
-And the Last Trump Shall Sound.
-Powerless.
-The Last Request. Alaska Locked Room.
-Snakewood. Grimdark Fantasy.
The World's Most Haunted House. NF
Twice As Dead. Vampires & Zombies.
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. Anthology.
Screams From the Dark. Anthology.
The Nightmare Room (Messy Man 1)
The Hungry Ones (Messy Man 2)
The Smashed Man of Dread End.
The Black Slide.
Welcome to the Ghost Show.
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison.
More Fire: Building The Towering Inferno 50th anniversary edition.
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