Scariest Books for Halloween - Top 6 Horror

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Adam Cesare

Adam Cesare

Күн бұрын

Today's video is getting ready for Halloween by recommending the best horror books for making your season wonderfully gloomy.
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The books discussed in the video are:
Halloween edited by Paula Guran: amzn.to/2dpI6Yo
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn: amzn.to/2dtxFPE
Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts by Orrin Grey: amzn.to/2dpHm5w
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones: amzn.to/2cQIiOT
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay: amzn.to/2cQIZrf
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod: amzn.to/2cRi5uu
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@OneBrokenDove
@OneBrokenDove 5 жыл бұрын
Me tooo. I get so excited when where i live becomes 14°C suddenly!! Around September is when the vibes are real.
@whutzat
@whutzat 7 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Borders Books. :-(
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
They were the chain I preferred! They had an actual "Horror" section instead of mixing the titles between Scifi/Fantasy and general Fiction.
@scruffy281
@scruffy281 4 жыл бұрын
Miss them .......
@cjdvise
@cjdvise 4 жыл бұрын
When did Borders get closed down for good?
@iheartlakeland5868
@iheartlakeland5868 5 жыл бұрын
Our hometown BAM is a dollar tree now! First place I remember wanting to spend the night in besides our library. When my dad started the conversation about Summer jobs, my first pick was the AMC, I got hired at BAM, and loved it. If you could put the smell of books in a candle...
@iheartlakeland5868
@iheartlakeland5868 5 жыл бұрын
Do more of these for 2019, please.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 5 жыл бұрын
Soon!
@VikingaLectora
@VikingaLectora 7 жыл бұрын
Amazing books! I recently read Disappearance at Devil's Rock and looooved it. For me, every Halloween it's time to re-read Ray Bradbury's Halloween Tree and Something Wicked this way comes :)
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Vikinga Lectora (Marian) hell yeah Bradbury!! Thanks for the compliment. Checking out your channel now!
@timmeyer2788
@timmeyer2788 7 жыл бұрын
Great video, Adam! I HAVE TO get a copy of SGJ's After the People Lights Have Gone Off!
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Tim Meyer it's a great book. And cool looking, as a bonus.
@PaperbackMania
@PaperbackMania 7 жыл бұрын
Nice recommendations, Adam. For a vintage Halloween tale, I would suggest Joe R. Lansdale's The Nightrunners. It's such a great, punchy book with an awesome Halloween vibe. Also, have you read anything by Tim Curran? His new novella, Corpse Rider, is fantastic (despite the shitty title). Give him a try if you haven't yet.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
I want to grab CORPSE RIDER, like Curran.
@HakimALIGHT
@HakimALIGHT 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the recommendations. I'm looking forward to reading Painted Monsters and Disappearance at Devil's Rock.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+kimoxxx awesome, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
@diegomariacardona8273
@diegomariacardona8273 7 жыл бұрын
I'm reading "the dunwich horror by hp lovecraft" for Halloween and "pet sematary by Stephen king"
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Diego Maria Cardona Pet Sematary is one of my top favorite King books! Enjoy and happy Halloween!
@babylovesturtle
@babylovesturtle 7 жыл бұрын
I have the Paul Tremblay book in my "to buy" list. Just purchased a big Amazon book haul containing 2 of yours, so I will check out some of the others on this list soon. Every year my Halloween tradition is to read "Once Upon A Halloween" by Richard Laymon.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+babylovesturtle awesome! Thank you! As far as traditions go, you can't go wrong with Laymon!
@haydengilbert6317
@haydengilbert6317 6 жыл бұрын
I'm kind of obsessed with the Penguin anthology "American Supernatural Tales". I always take it off my shelf around Halloween
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 6 жыл бұрын
I have that one! It's good!
@starkblast
@starkblast 7 жыл бұрын
Great list, just a heads up. Disappearance at Devils Rock is unreadable on an E-reader (Paul is aware of it and issued some info no his blog). Make sure to pick up a physical copy.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+starkblast did not know this! This was one of my Audible credits. So can vouch for the quality of the audiobook narration. It's a huge publisher, hoping they have the ebook fixed soon (or already have).
@rufuslizardboy1
@rufuslizardboy1 7 жыл бұрын
Great list! I loved Mongrels and Disappearance at Devil's Rock, also. I'd recommend Adam Nevill's "The Ritual" for a spooky Halloween read!
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
I've been hearing great things about Nevill. Gotta check him out.
@MrFogrider
@MrFogrider 7 жыл бұрын
Love your channel. Just subscribed to it and your website. What is project Black T-Shirt? I can't seem to locate an explanation. I am probably looking over it.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Tom Jeffers hi Tom, thanks so much for the sub and the kind words. You're not overlooking it, Project: Black T-Shirt is just my halfassed attempt at branding. I'm a writer with a bunch of traditionally published books, but for my self-released stuff I came up with the name Black T-Shirt Books. There's a better explanation of the name in my first video (a bluray review, I think), but that's the gist of it. I hope you keep enjoying!!
@syondas7707
@syondas7707 7 жыл бұрын
Great reviews man! I think I'm gonna get all of these actually haha, trying to get back into fiction reading
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Syon Das thanks, Syon! All these books are pretty different but I love them all in their own ways. Hope you enjoy, most of my videos are horror movie reviews that come with book recommendations, if you need further reading.
@salvadorrodriguez239
@salvadorrodriguez239 3 жыл бұрын
Love watching recommendations by other male readers, especially horror novels.
@cleetusvd072
@cleetusvd072 7 жыл бұрын
lol, I just received Tribesmen in the mail yesterday and was looking through KZfaq for some reviews of these types of books and found your channel. I had no idea you were on youtube, now subbed. Didn't read Tribesmen yet and it is my first novel by you but it looks right up my alley being that I love Cannibal flicks of old.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
Haha. That's awesome! I hope you like both the book and the channel. But mostly hope you like the book. :)
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
And THANK YOU!!!!
@cleetusvd072
@cleetusvd072 7 жыл бұрын
Adam Cesare thanks for the reply and I already love the channel, have just about watched 3/4 of all the videos today. I have a very good idea that i will love the book, will probably read it next as I am in the middle of Clickers now. Next up of yours that I want Is bottom feeders, the giant monster/weird animal genre is another favorite of mine.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
CLICKERS is great! Bottom Feeders is a novella I co-wrote with Cameron Pierce, so if you don't like it blame him. :-) (but seriously, we also wrote another aquatic horror novella together, so we enjoy going on creature feature jaunts as co-writers)
@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf
@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf 5 жыл бұрын
How does the Halloween anthology compare to the other anthology October Dreams? I've been wanting to pick up Halloween for a while after seeing this recommendation the first time, but a few reviewers on Goodread and Amazon have suggested October Dreams as a better alternative.
@Mike739107
@Mike739107 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the recommendations. You've probably already read it, but Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry is a great book.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 4 жыл бұрын
I've read some Maberry but not that one, will have to check out.
@TamikaMichelle
@TamikaMichelle 7 жыл бұрын
new subscriber. need more horror recommendations in booktude. I appreciate this video.
@debbiemann2752
@debbiemann2752 4 жыл бұрын
TamikaUploaded anything by Riley Sager.
@mr.t6142
@mr.t6142 3 жыл бұрын
Witness in West Virginia by Thomas C. Stuhr
@killrqueen7
@killrqueen7 4 жыл бұрын
A Head Full of Ghosts is probably my favorite horror book. I recommend it to everyone who asks me about horror literature. I'm currently reading Paul Tremblay's 'The Cabin At The End Of The World'. He really has a great way of combining psychology and supernatural elements. 'Disappearance At Devil's Rock' is on my shelf to be read next (:
@lees4912
@lees4912 Жыл бұрын
I just bought the kindle version of Head Full of Ghosts. Can't wait to read it!!!! Also the book The Cabin At The End of The World, isn't that the movie Knock at the Cabin? I just watched that last weekend and OMG SOOOOOOOO good!!!! I bet the book is way better!
@666jswful
@666jswful 3 жыл бұрын
Four years later and come back to these videos. Dude, Halloween everyday all the time, even as an adult.
@AquariusAylmer
@AquariusAylmer 7 жыл бұрын
awesome list & channel
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Kaleb Elmore (FBS) thanks Kaleb. Hope that you keep enjoying.
@magic.nostalgic
@magic.nostalgic 6 жыл бұрын
New subscriber and fellow writer- (unpublished)- Just wanted to say hey! Good job, and that Sharp Objects by G. Flynn is definitely her best novel by far.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 6 жыл бұрын
+tikikitten I love it! Welcome aboard and good luck with your writing!
@debbiemann2752
@debbiemann2752 4 жыл бұрын
Oldie but goodie Night in Lonesome October by Richard Layton! I walk at night a lot and this one scared me.
@LovewarpstainIV
@LovewarpstainIV 7 жыл бұрын
Consider doing a video where you show off all your DVDs and Blu-rays. Even just a slow pass with the camera would be awesome. You look like quite the collector.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
I've had a few more people tell me they wanted this. Maybe October is the month!
@plaguedoctormasque8089
@plaguedoctormasque8089 5 жыл бұрын
Moron this is about Books, you should learn to read above a 2and grade level then prehaps you can enjoy books too dear!
@cheridud
@cheridud 4 жыл бұрын
I love a spooky tbr of anthologies!
@wyrdhorror6898
@wyrdhorror6898 7 жыл бұрын
Nice choice of books!
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Wyrd Horror Thank you!
@plaguedoctormasque8089
@plaguedoctormasque8089 5 жыл бұрын
Paula Grons Halloween is the bomb, I read it. Good stuff
@epicjake1998
@epicjake1998 6 жыл бұрын
A bit strange but I want to read sharp object but I want the book with the razor on the cover but I can’t find it anywhere, any help?
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 6 жыл бұрын
Hey Jake, I'm betting that whatever edition I'm holding up in the video is out of print. I'm not 100% it'll work, but my guess would be if you buy from amazon but select to get the book "used" from a 3rd party vendor, they'll probably send you the older edition.
@epicjake1998
@epicjake1998 6 жыл бұрын
Adam Cesare thanks il have a look it’s just a little thing it’s not going to take anything away form the book but it’s like ocd I guess I like the design a lot more
@WalkerFilmsOfficial
@WalkerFilmsOfficial 7 жыл бұрын
Could you do a Top 5 horror books for a summer night?
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+WalkerFilms whoa! This is a great idea! Will try and do it in the beginning of June! Thank you!
@OneBrokenDove
@OneBrokenDove 5 жыл бұрын
I just set Halloween by Paula Guran on hold in a used shop :)
@sandraweilbrenner67
@sandraweilbrenner67 6 жыл бұрын
good list
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Sandra.
@djavatar68
@djavatar68 7 жыл бұрын
Adam have you read GRIMM MEMORIALS by R. Patrick Gates?
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Anthony Martinez I'll put it on my list, haven't read it!
@djavatar68
@djavatar68 7 жыл бұрын
It's pretty fucked up! An adult Grimm's fairy tales trip.
@johnhestand5577
@johnhestand5577 7 жыл бұрын
I just might have to abandon the book I'm currently reading and read the last one.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
It's really good. Will leave you feeling cold and stressed. But I guess that's the intended effect!
@judithchavarin4290
@judithchavarin4290 7 жыл бұрын
I need to read Sharp objects 😲
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Judith Chavarin it's great! You'll love it.
@drjacobsen6833
@drjacobsen6833 7 жыл бұрын
Since I am an English major I go to Hamlet and McBeth, the first great horror stories. Ghosts and witches and in Hamlet everyone dies. Then Faustus with a man selling his soul for knowledge and Hellen of Troy. Then early American terror, Salem witch trails where ultimately 19 men and women were hanged and one man was pressed to death. Plus headless horseman.
@baymeosplit8537
@baymeosplit8537 6 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail had me cracking up
@daniyajaweed5900
@daniyajaweed5900 5 жыл бұрын
the add warning sold me to subscribe
@Deadbynight2
@Deadbynight2 7 жыл бұрын
Hey Adam big fan me and you see eye to eye with horror man I just recently got a shit ton of your books tribesmen and video night also zero lives remaining and con season and gotta say I love it all man I'm enjoying your work and it's inspired me to write my first horror novel Matheson grove which I hope I finish soon so you could check it out but enuff fanboying lol I wanted to recommend a horror writer to you maybe you read him idk but his name nick cutter he's really good he's right up your alley with books like the troop and the deep also his newest title little heaven which is pretty good you should check him out I really think you'll like him ! Well thanks for the great books looking forward to reading more from you and hopefully you keep it up with the video thanks !
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Doom Animal THANKS SO MUCH! It means a lot that you picked up (and enjoyed the books). If you get a spare minute to review any of them on Amazon: that stuff helps me out immensely. Great to hear about the book! Congratulations. Got a link so we can check it out? I love Nick Cutter's work. I haven't had a chance to check out Little Heaven yet, but I have it. He actually was kind enough to blurb my novel Mercy House. He's a great writer and a gracious dude!
@Deadbynight2
@Deadbynight2 7 жыл бұрын
Adam Cesare Haha great to hear from you Adam I'm happy you wrote back of course I'll do that I enjoyed your books so I'll go on Amazon and give them a review I really enjoyed them and look forward to reading more from you! Thanks 😅 but it isn't finished yet actually you kinda help me get back into writing it and get it published idk your work In courageous to write my book and get it published hopefully I do get it out there so others can read it hopefully they come out as good as yours but if I get it published you be the first to know ! Oh that's awesome he did that I haven't read mercy house yet but I do look forward into reading that one ! But I'm glad you enjoyed him I thought he be up your alley! But read little heaven whenever you get the chance it's really good I think you'll like it !
@ColonelPanic007
@ColonelPanic007 Жыл бұрын
You should read The Dark Descent. It's a large anthology of dark fiction. I think it's from Tor Books. It's very good.
@ok-qt5qj
@ok-qt5qj 4 жыл бұрын
Please tell me good ghost horror book.
@mr.t6142
@mr.t6142 3 жыл бұрын
Please Check out and review. Thomas C. Stuhr 'Witness in West Virginia' E-book.
@nolimitsamputee5219
@nolimitsamputee5219 4 жыл бұрын
If you put aside your disbelief and just take the story for real.... The Amityville Horror. I read it at work in college in broad daylight and it gave me chills. Pretty quick read in a couple hours but worth it. You won’t be able to put it down once you stop.
@susanburgess820
@susanburgess820 4 жыл бұрын
Yes yes yes!!!
@sunflowermonroe666
@sunflowermonroe666 7 жыл бұрын
new subbie but do you tend to choose more male led books? dont want to sound sexist as i am still interested its just a question. thanks
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Sunflower Monroe hi Sunflower, I try to keep a good mix of female authors in my videos (and my reading in general!), but some may skew more male. Hope you enjoy!
@markbaumbargt3430
@markbaumbargt3430 6 жыл бұрын
Ever read Tim Curran?
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 6 жыл бұрын
I have GRIMWEAVE on my kindle (impulse buy because of a neat cover) but haven't read it yet. Where do you recommend starting?
@markbaumbargt3430
@markbaumbargt3430 6 жыл бұрын
I've been reading his stuff for years, I started off with Dead Sea, and then Hive. Dead Sea is about some saliors suddenly stuck in a strange sea in an alien world where there are things in the water, and the air, that are trying to kill them, and then things really start to go bad. Hive is a sequel, kinda, to Lovecraft's novella At The Mountain Of Madness, characters will die screaming. I recommend both, but both have since been "restored" so I read the shorter versions. A much later book, Cannibal Corpse, M/C, is about a post-apocaliptic world that only be saved by an outlaw biker gang. God help us all. Curran wears his iinflences on his sleeve. Modern horror pulp at its finest. I posted reviews of all three on Amazon. He's also a Michigan boy, like me. Forgive my herky-jerkey response, I'm posting this response from my hospital room.
@Mr_Raro
@Mr_Raro 7 жыл бұрын
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge is a good Halloween read.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for reminding me. Every year I'm like "Going to read DARK HARVEST" and like 3 years running I've forgotten. Not this year!
@PossumLint_1927
@PossumLint_1927 7 жыл бұрын
I scrolled through the comments to see if anyone beat me to Dark Harvest.
@nope5657
@nope5657 2 жыл бұрын
Can't get into Tremblay to save my life...
@jonwisniewski
@jonwisniewski 7 жыл бұрын
I want to read, "my best friends exorcism." Have you read that?
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+jp wis no, but I'd like to and I read that author's (Grady Hendrix) last book. It's called Horrorstor and it's printed to look like an IKEA catalog.
@sierrawinfield5680
@sierrawinfield5680 4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure you’ve probably read it by now, but that book is fantastic and perfect 80s styled horror
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@-----REDACTED----- 4 жыл бұрын
Giving the ISBN of the book would go a very long way in helping us acquire the respective book........
@nicolelong2709
@nicolelong2709 7 жыл бұрын
If you enjoyed Sharp Objects definitely check out Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. It's a great winter read and it's better than Gone Girl imo!
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
Nicole Long I've had it for a while but haven't gotten around to it (probably because I'm bummed I'll be all done with Flynn once I read it) but will have to move it up the list!
@AI-gd7lz
@AI-gd7lz 4 жыл бұрын
Adam Cesare there’s also the short story The Grownup! not quite as good as the other novels but still good.
@Spookhousedelver
@Spookhousedelver 7 жыл бұрын
ORRIN GREY RULES
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
hell yeah
@rocsimmons8535
@rocsimmons8535 Жыл бұрын
👍🏽👍🏽
@MoodyMegReads
@MoodyMegReads 7 жыл бұрын
I just finished Sharp Objects and I don't think I'll ever get over it. lol! Ughhhh such a terribly awesome read.
@AdamCesare
@AdamCesare 7 жыл бұрын
+Megan Hambey with a great ending!
@barbarasenteney1011
@barbarasenteney1011 5 жыл бұрын
Blair Witch was one of the most boring, non stories I ever saw
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