Planning a month of spooky reading / creeping through my bookshelves for haunted books

welcome to this year's october tbr full of spooky reads

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[danaegeorgakopoulou]

This is the year that I'm going to give exams, to go to the uni, I don't have any time to read books and when I do have time I am exhausted. Watching your videos makes me feel close to books ❤ I miss reading so much

[honeysuckle]

Ooh wishing Emma and everyone here the best autumn this year! Have lots of hot chocolate, coffee and an overall cozy reading season. 🍂🌟

[silverplim]

I just read The Haunting of Hill House yesterday and ADORED it! I think you will love it if you have an appreciation for psychological horror

[honeysuckle]

I'm reading Dracula currently. It's my 3rd book for October and it's just so atmospheric and amazing for this beautiful season. And it's my birthday in two days! 🍂🌟

[maanya__]

Hi Emma, I am going to read Phantom of the Opera this month. Your passion about it has really sparked my interest for it since the last year when you read it in October. I am finally reading it this month and I am so excited for it, all thanks to you!🥀

[theeldritchfox]

My spooky/cozy TBR for the month:
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz
Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw
Once Upon A River - Diane Setterfield
Small Spaces - Katherine Arden
The Bone Mother - David Demchuk
Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson

[ТаисияСулейманова]

Okay, now I feel like I have to write another comment... I highly appreciate your way of telling about books! It feels like talking to a friend. Your inner warmth and cosiness has been keeping me happy since this summer. It's such a blessing finding your channel randomly in "recommendations" section
Thanks for being your wonderful self :"3
Have some awesome reads is SpOoKy SeAsOn🎃💜

[aimeea]

On my TBR this month: Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Tomie (manga), The Thief, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle which I've been saving for this month! I also read Sheets and I liked it. My heart feels for Wendell. I'm definitely going to read Delicates. Happy reading Emma :)

[stirlingpiano]

I have never conformed to a strictly spooky theme for my October reading before, but I am trying to do so this year. So my current spooky TBR includes:
-Mexican Gothic
-Carmilla
-The Vampyre
-Frankenstein (reread)
-The Turn of the Screw
-Metamorphosis
-Northanger Abbey (reread)
-The Haunting of Hill House
-Some more Edgar Allen Poe stories

So far, I have also already read A Long Fatal Love Chase and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow this month. (By the way, I would highly recommend reading A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott. It is extremely underrated.)

I hope your spooky reading goes well and you are having a wonderful week!

[JessieJoystick]

I don't have a set tbr, but I'm currently re-reading 1984 and I just started the magicians by Lev Grossman :) thank you for your videos they are so lovely and relaxing 😊

[jamesduggan]

There are some other BookTubers who have BoMC as a sponsor. For me, the effect is after seeing the ad is a feeling of familiarity with the titles - something like "Oh, I've heard of that!" IMO that's a counterintuitive result, and impressive that the people there understand that BT's plugs can and do have a cumulative effect.

[Lokster]

King Lear has moved up my list of favourite Shakespeare plays since I saw Frank Langella as Lear in Chichester and then Simon Russell-Beale as Lear at the National Theatre. The Langella was small, intimate and totally broke me. The Russell-Beale one was huge, director driven (it was a big play about big issues he thought and damn he was going to prove it)and really annoyed me. So, between the two of them I kind of found my way to a new appreciation for Lear as a play.

[selenalee]

these monthly planning videos are my absolute favourite!! 🥺

[MorningGlimmerLibrary]

oo! I'm also doing Paradise Lost this term :D university is definitely the spookiest thing this season

[BunsBooks]

I’m fully in the spoopy mood now. I just finished Dracula and now I’m reading Carmilla. I’ve also been listening to The Faerie Queen for some weeks now, I put it on whilst I clean and it makes the menial more fantastical. The Monk is incredible, I’ve not been the same since, and I highly recommend the audio cause the songs in it are performed beautifully

[jenniferpalmblad]

I've got a lot on my TBR this month. Mainly mysteries and gothic classics because that is 100% my mood at the moment. I'm actually reading Phantom of the Opera for the first time ever and I'm really excited about it!

[azuregiant]

Now this is a treat! I’m already feeling festive, snuggled up inside, eating mini gingerbread men with hot milky tea, watching the grey clouds and flecks of rain on the windowpane 🤗

[isabellehall]

I'm currently reading Notre Dame de Paris and i rlly like it. On my october tbr are Dance Dance Dance, Carmilla, The Haunting of Hill House, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Bunny, and Things We Lost in the Fire

[aditmaryadi]

I will having my birthday the end of this Spooktober and seeking through my shelves to find any spooky unread book and.. it's nothing 😂 Seems like i have to buy a spooky book as a gift for myself to celebrate this month 🎃(another reason to buy a book ehh)

[colourless]

I started The Hawthorne Legacy a few days ago, the second book to The Inherintance Games, and I must say I'm very hooked to it for now, as the plot, mysteries and puzzles are getting interesting. The first book was a huge let down for me, that I thought of DNF-ing the series. But I have already bought the second book during its preorder (before cracking the first book), so I'm giving a chance for it to redeem my disappointment and so far as I said, it does.

I don't celebrate Halloween, and so I never really thought of October as a spooky month to read spooky books. But I'm very intrigued to see your TBR books. I hope you'll enjoy them all!