Some spooky reads just in time for Halloween…

The nights are getting longer, the evenings darker, and there’s a strange chill in the air… it must be time for some Halloween reads!

This weekend we’re recommending you try something a bit new, and delve into some spooky tales to get yourself into the spirit for Halloween on Tuesday. Here is part one of our recommendations (more creepiness to come on Tuesday!):

The Three by Sarah Lotz (Out now http://amzn.to/2yPqZFL )

They’re here … The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there’s so many …  They’re coming for me now. We’re all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len warn them that the boy he’s not to­­–   The last words of Pamela May Donald (1961 – 2012)

Black Thursday. The day that will never be forgotten. The day that four passenger planes crash, at almost exactly the same moment, at four different points around the globe.

There are only four survivors. Three are children, who emerge from the wreckage seemingly unhurt. But they are not unchanged. And the fourth is Pamela May Donald, who lives just long enough to record a voice message on her phone. A message that will change the world.

HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Out now http://amzn.to/2gF2SVC)

Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves.

Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Blind and silenced, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children’s beds for nights on end. So accustomed to her have the townsfolk become that they often forget she’s there. Or what a threat she poses. Because if the stitches are ever cut open, the story goes, the whole town will die.

The curse must not be allowed to spread. The elders of Black Spring have used high-tech surveillance to quarantine the town. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town’s teenagers decide to break the strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into a dark nightmare.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King (Out now http://amzn.to/2gFR2ur)

All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze.  If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent…

In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women’s prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep – and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain?

The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling’s Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake.

And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether…

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (Out on 2^nd November http://amzn.to/2gHJtU2)

‘Eerie and compelling’ Paula Hawkins

In a dazzlingly original and chilling reimagining of this most notorious of unsolved American true crime case – the Lizzie Borden murders – Sarah Schmidt opens the door to the Borden home and leads us into its murkiest corners, where jealousies, slow-brewed rivalries and the darkest of thoughts reside.

Check back in on Tuesday for more Halloween reading recommendations to chill your spine and scare your soul!