Can y’all suggest some good Halloween books?

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown !!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, one of my favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, and full of mystery (with a potentially supernatural origin) and misdirections.

Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, Robert Louis Stevenson’s DR. JECKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and Henry James’ TURN OF THE SCREW – all of them in the Gothic/romance tradition, dealing with vampires, monsters and ghosts, respectively.

Alan Moore’s FROM HELL (a collected one-volume comic or graphic novel), a masterful take on Jack the Ripper. Most comics written by Alan Moore are at the very top echelon of literary quality – sophisticated, multi-layered and most of his major works have all broken new ground in the medium.

Richard Matheson’s I AM LEGEND – psychologically tense, in turns both melancholic and chilling, and touched with a downward spiral into paranoia with a supremely ironic twist at the end. A short post-apocalyptic work.

Arthur Miller’s play/drama THE CRUCIBLE. Whilst not technically dealing with the supernatural, it depicts the lengths to which people will go when taking advantage of the extant mass hysteria and the atmosphere of fear and distrust – in this case the hysteria during the Salem witch trials. Very, very good play and doubly scary because of the lies, deceit and accusations that spin out of control.