*Curtsies* Any Halloween book recommendations, duke?

dukeofbookingham:

*Curtsies* Oh hell yes, this is my kind of ask. 

  • Classics: Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Modern classics: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Literary: The Keep by Jennifer Egan
  • Fantasy: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
  • Horror: This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong
  • Short stories: “The Body Snatchers” by Robert Louis Stevenson and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poetry: The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, and “Phantasmagoria” by Lewis Carroll
  • Drama: Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
  • Nonfiction: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  • Essays: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey

Uh, let me know if this isn’t enough or there’s a genre missing you’d like to see.

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