#allhallowsread

Dare to Care – Share a Scare Horror book giving phenomenon All Hallows’ Read is brooding on that ominous Halloween horizon. Listen! Isn’t there a voice in the cold, ill wind? It almost sounds like Neil Gaiman giving his all in a hoarse whisper to remind you of his marvelous idea: 
 – Wouldn’t it be awfully nice if people gave each other good scary books along with the Halloween candy, to spread the joys of reading horror? All alone? In the dark? With spider-leg-like chills creeping up the back of your legs? [A cackle of ghoulish polite British excuses is swallowed by the surrounding darkness...] ——— Here you’ll find my book monsters of yore.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ⁣ - Edgar Allen Poe⁣ ⁣ 🖤⁣ ⁣ We’re getting into the spooky spirit with these beautiful editions and anthologies from @britishlibrary including their Tell Tale Heart and Other Stories from Edgar Allen Poe and The Gothic Tales of HP Lovecraft... ⁣ ⁣ Read something wicked this Halloween season, friends.⁣ ⁣ 🖤🍂🎃👻⁣ ⁣ #edgarallenpoe #hplovecraft #hplovecrafthistoricalsociety #thebritishlibrary #thebritishlibrarycrimeclassics #readsomethingwicked #readsomethingspooky #telltaleheart #thetelltaleheart #gothichorror #horrorbooks #horrorbookclub #horrorbookclubpgh #halloween #halloweenbooks #classichorror #currentlyreading #allhallowsread #bookstoread #igreads #collectiondevelopment https://www.instagram.com/p/B38JvZ0A2WM/?igshid=1w0dt6llwxt66

Share the chills! Join in Neil Gaiman’s All Hallows’ Read effort! 
Here are all the cursed books I’ve painted to inspire people to trick and treat others to the joys of reading good scary books on Halloween. Seven books for seven years make quite a gruesome hoard. I’ve even resurrected the first AHR-fanart I did eight years ago to stalk the feed once again, misplaced hyphen and all. 
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I wonder if Neil Gaiman thought of it as a trick or a treat when he imagined All Hallow’s Read into being a thing?

Have fun!

A truly frightening offering for the #13BooksofHalloween countdown today: you might be surprised to learn that #ENesbit beloved author of #therailwaychildren, #fivechildrenandit, and other favorites, penned a series of dark and haunting #ghoststories for grown-ups; the very best of which are collected here in this anthology from @penguinukbooks with an introduction from @naomi_alderman. "Lurking in the background are dead children, thwarted love, jealousy, vengeance, and the sense that even the best kind of love - the famous love that never falters, the love that pays the price - has something dark within it" - @guardian 💀🕯🕸🕷🎃🦇#allhallowsread #bumpinthenight #spooky #halloweenbooks #scarybooksforadults #haunting #needtoread #classichorror #horror #thepower #disobediance #naomialderman #scary #creepy #chills #horrorstories #coverart (at Chicago, Illinois)

#13BooksofHalloween: it's ok to leave the light on tonight after you read some of this chilling history of #horror 💀 @britishlibrary examines our centuries long fascination with the genre and tracks it's evolution from the first #gothicnovel in 1764 through the #newweird, the post-millennial zombie trend and beyond! Bonus: the macabre #coverart is stunning 🖤#antebellum #pennydreadful #gothicromance #fallfavorite #halloweenbooks #halloweendisplay #horrorstories #zombies #bookcover #bookstagram #allhallowsread #librarylove #horrorgeek #scarystories (at Chicago, Illinois)

Kicking off the #13booksofhalloween is a middle grade staff FAVORITE from The delightfully twisted pen of @chris_riddell: the 4th installment in the whimsical and macabre #GothGirl series, Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony 🤗🖤💀😈! #staffpicks #fallfavorite #halloweenbooks #middlegrade #chapterbooks #spooky #BOOks #allhallowsread #spiders #girlpower #mysteries #kidlit #librarylove #bookstagram #bookish #nerdgirls #gothic #classicliterature #readingrocks (at Chicago, Illinois)