Let's get scared? Top 6 best books to read for Halloween!

1. Ray Bradbury - All Saints' Eve
2. Roger Zelazny - Lonely October Night
3. Agatha Christie - Halloween Party
4. Stephen King - Pet Sematary
5. John Updike - Eastwick Witches
6. Koji Suzuki - The Bell
7. Things to know (Q&A)

If you want to create a creepy mood for yourself from October 31 to November 1 and feel the atmosphere of this gloomy holiday - read one of the books in this collection.

Ray Bradbury - All Saints' Eve

Have you read Bradbury's All Saints' Eve on Halloween yet? Correct urgently, because this book has already become practically one of the most important attributes of this holiday. Through the main characters of 12-year-old boys, who changed into costumes and went to collect sweets, we will learn everything about this holiday, get imbued with its spirit, atmosphere and even think about something high! It's a short story. So just an evening of cozy reading will provide you with.

And when you get to know all the books in this collection, look into the section about what is worth reading for more interesting recommendations!

Roger Zelazny - Lonely October Night

If you are swimming like a fish in water in the world of horror literature, then be sure to read this book by the legendary science fiction writer, it will definitely delight you with a meeting with your favorite characters. Here you will find a cocktail of many famous heroes of the books of such masters of horror as Edgar Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Howard Lovecraft. Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes and others get together to play a strange game ... Intriguing? Then read the book! It is also quite small, but full of events headlong.

Agatha Christie - Halloween Party

On Halloween, not only the inhabitants of the other world play pranks on the earth, but also ordinary people of flesh and blood. Ariadne Oliver is invited to the house where they are preparing for Halloween with might and main. The situation is diluted by a girl who publicly declares that she saw the murder. Soon, the funny dreamer is found dead and everyone understands that she did not invent, but spoke the truth, and the killer continues to cover his tracks.

Stephen King - Pet Sematary

Where is without the king of horrors in this scary collection! And since the holiday of mysticism and horror, then heavy artillery is required. "Pet Sematary" himself King called his most terrible novel, which he even reread was terrifying, and the author knows a lot about horror. Why the worst? Because he will not talk about vampires and ghosts, but the most difficult experiences for each of us, the main nightmare of the majority will come to life on the pages of the novel. An ideal happy family moves into an old mansion, and who would have thought that this new step in their life would open the door not to even greater happiness, but to embody a nightmare.

John Updike - Eastwick Witches

The story is more famous for its adaptation of the 80s, of course, such stars starred there! Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon play three witches who yearn for their ideal man in a small American town. But dreams come true and the charming heartthrob devil Daryl van Horn (Jack Nicholson) comes to them! Be sure to watch or read about this game of cat and mouse, but it's not clear who else is the mouse in this story ...

Koji Suzuki - The Bell

And, finally, if you consider yourself a tough nut to crack and all these atmospheric fairy tales do not appeal to you, read a real horror book from a real master. This is the very source of the famous film about the girl in the well, which is no less frightening! A mysterious cassette falls into the hands of journalist Asakawa Kazuyuki, and if he does not figure out how to escape, in a week he and his family will be dead. To complement the atmosphere of horror, we advise you to follow the film adaptations, both Japanese and American.

Things to know (Q&A)