October is one of my favourite months! With the cooler weather, the leaves falling from the trees, the furnace coming on, AND the scary books and movies! This month I’ll be sharing some of my favourite spoooooky books with you!
Penguin Books | July 26, 2011
Loory’s collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people–and monsters and trees and jocular octopi–who are united by twin motivations: fear and desire. In his singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.
Obviously, the thing that drew me into this book was the cover – I LOVE IT. And I love short scary stories and really, Ben Loory is a MASTER at this. This book blew me away and just writing about it now makes me want to read it again, it was that good. I loved that none of these stories were normal but all were scary. Some were a little more quaint and others were like little nightmares. I LOVE this book.
What is one of your favourite spooky books?
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