Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Things That Give Me the Creeps in Books and/or Movies

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Caught Read Handed

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:

Halloween themed freebie — your choice (ie. 10 best ghost stories, 10 things that scare you in books, 10 literary Halloween costumes, 10 vampire novels, 10 books that WILL scare you, 10 non-scary books for Halloween, 10 scariest covers, etc.)

10 Things That Give Me the Creeps in Books and/or Movies (I don’t want you to think I’m a pansy. These things may creep me out, but it doesn’t mean I don’t want or read these kinds of books – okay, except mannequins. Keep those things away from me)

Dolls/mannequins that come to life
Possession
The person looking through the window/watching you when you don’t know it
People eating other people and/or using their body parts for other things (like when people wear someone else’s face *shudders*)
The dark
The person who is always facing away from you and never turns around
People without faces
The monster under your bed
Little kids singing – you know the kind I mean
When things come out of the water – in a lake or a bath

What things creep you out in books or movies?

Happy Halloween! Ten Halloween Reads

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Caught Read Handed

It’s Halloween! I’m sure I’m not the only book lover who has books they like to read during a certain time of year. This is a list of books that I recommend to read around Halloween. They are all different genres. Some are “classics” and some are newer. None of them are necessarily Halloween-themed, but they have creepy aspects or creatures that are associated with the holiday.

As always, all titles are linked to their corresponding Goodreads pages.

The Passage by Justin Cronin

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (anything by Edgar Allan Poe, really)

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (My review)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Pet Cemetery by Stephen King (there are several more I could’ve chosen)

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Haunted Book by Jeremy Dyson

John Dies at the End by David Wong (for a weird but not so creepy/scary read)

I haven’t read it yet, but I’m going to assume Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs is a good fit for the list. This is one that I definitely want to check out.

Have you read any of these? Tell me what you’d add to the list!

Top Ten Tuesday: Movies to get you in the Halloween spirit

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Caught Read Handed

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:

Top Ten Books/Movies To Read Or Watch To Get In The Halloween Spirit OR Top Ten Characters Who I Would Totally Want To Be For Halloween

I’m going to do movies because I’ve already planned a Halloween Reads post for Friday. So here are ten of the movies you can watch to get you in the Halloween spirit. I’m not a huge fan of scary movies, so most of my choices won’t be scary. They also might not necessarily be Halloween-themed movies, but whatever.

Hocus Pocus