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Bag of Bones Read-Alikes

Are you having a rush on Stephen King at the library this week? It could be because of the A&E miniseries based on his book Bag of Bones. However, Bag of Bones is unlike much of King’s other work, so if you don’t have enough copies to satisfy your patrons, and they’re looking for read-alikes rather than books by the same author (and King’s works run the gamut- not all of his work is going to appeal to everyone) here are some stories of ghosts and the supernatural that might appeal.

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert
So Cold the River by Michael Kortya
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

You may also want to check out our Haunted House Horror Fiction List or our reviews on the Supernatural and Occult section of the site

Happy haunting, and enjoy the show!

Posted on December 13, 2011 by , Reply

Apocalypse Then?

Well, it looks like modern readers aren’t the only ones- the fine folks of the medieval era also enjoyed a good scary story, according to the British Library. And not just the aristocracy either. “Apocalypses” were written for a wider audience that those few people who could read Latin, which is pretty cool! And here is a gorgeous page from one of these richly illustrated books.

And now I’m off to read Mike Mullin’s Ashfall. Also an excellent book about the apocalypse, although not the same one.

Posted on December 8, 2011 by , Reply

Giveaway: “Retribution” by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tired of the print vs. ebook debate? Ready for something completely different? Just in time for holiday travel, and courtesy of Macmillan Audio, we have an audiobook copy of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s newest Dark Hunter novel, Retribution, reviewed here earlier this year by the estimable Patricia Mathews. Leave a comment below telling me your holiday plans, or at least what you plan to read over the holidays, and I’ll pick someone randomly as of Wednesday, December 7.

Have a great weekend!

Posted on December 2, 2011 by , 2 comments
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