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October 29, 2025 57 mins

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Halloween is just around the corner.  In celebration of this spooky season, we're discussing some of the monsters who have jumped from the pages of the books we've read and given our wimpy hearts a real fright.

Books Mentioned:

  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
  • I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling 
  • The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lous Stevenson, narrated by Richard Armitage
  • What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
  • The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Girl With All the Gifts  by M. R Carey
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
  • Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
  • Strange Practice by Vivien Shaw
  • Dead until Dark by Sookie Stackhouse
  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  • Eragon by Christopher Paolini
  • The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
  • Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ranson Riggs
  • Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James
  • The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
  •  It by Stephen King


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