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Share your favourite spooky books for Halloween to win a box set of new edition Harry Potter books

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RachelMumsnet · 10/10/2014 20:45

We're wanting you to share your favourite spooky tales / terrifying horror stories for both adults and children so we can put together a compilation of the best books for Halloween. Let us know which books send shivers down your spine by posting on this thread before the end of Friday 17 October. Everyone who contributes will be entered into a draw to win a beautiful boxed set containing all seven Harry Potter novels in new edition paperback.

Share your favourite spooky books for Halloween to win a box set of new edition Harry Potter books
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TheDowagerDuchessOfDinglyDell · 10/10/2014 21:06

Edgar Allen Poe. Tales of Mystery.

I read them when I was about 12 and staying with my granny. Couldn't sleep for about a week.

There's one about being buried alive

ShatnersBassoon · 10/10/2014 21:03

I loved Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. So atmospheric, I was sucked right in.

BigfootFiles · 10/10/2014 21:02

PS - I've just googled and Caroline B Cooney also deserves an honourable mention for the short story "Where the Deer are" in the Point Horror series. I mistrust deer to this day!

BigfootFiles · 10/10/2014 21:01

For kids spooky stories, can I confess to a weakness for the R.L. Stine Point Horror novels? For adults... Christine by Steven King springs to mind.

skyeskyeskye · 10/10/2014 20:58

I love The Mist by Steven King, and the Rats trilogy by James Herbert.

A book that has always stayed with me is called In the Shadow of the Cat, about a woman who could be an evil witch, but doesn't realise until after her mum dies and she realises that all is not as it seems, particularly her fiance. A very spooky book.

DoctorLawn · 10/10/2014 20:54

There is a really creepy in a not at all obvious way short story by Steven King, called The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet. It's not like one of his 'normal' horror stories, it's about a normal person going mad and imagining tiny creatures living in his typewriter... or is he? It really plays with the reader and leaves a very unsettled feeling.

mrscumberbatch · 10/10/2014 20:50

It's a classic so I'll get in there first and mention it- Steven King's IT.

Truly terrifying. I can't bring myself to read it again!

Best kids halloween book would be THe Worst Witch series- theres nothing scarier than school! Wink

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