I LOVE the covers from The Whispering House and The Ancestors. I need to check these out.

Halloween is my favourite holiday of the year! I, too, enjoy ghost stories. :)

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The Ancestor has actually been on my TBR for a while - maybe it’s time I actually got a copy and read it? Great list!

These look really spooky! Great choices for Halloween!

I love Halloween because I love to dress up. And it's the day before my birthday. Scary stuff? I think not.

Thanks for sharing all these interesting titles.

I totally relate to getting older and enjoying scary less and less! I love the chocolate but not dressing up! Great post today!

I love how creepy and yet stunning these covers are. Now I have some new books to add to my TBR :) I used to love dressing up for Halloween and even did it with my kids, but now... yeah, no. I hope you have a relaxing Halloween!

Here's my post: https://www.nbiblioholic.com/2020/10/toptentuesday-halloween-freebie.html

I love Halloween, but I'm not the biggest fan of scary horror stories. But just a little creepy can be perfect :) The Haunting of Brynn Wilder sounds like the perfect Halloween vibe.

It Will Just Be Us is one of my favourite books from this year - it is amazing x

I am surprised to hear that people are going door-to-door this year. I loved living down south, where they didn't really do Halloween. The churches had fall festivals instead. That cover for Don't Tell a Soul creeps me out every time I see it, and McGinnis is just scary in general

I love all the covers on these! Really like the sound of The Ancestor too

Ooh...I like Wendy Webb. I'll have to look for The Haunting of Brynn Wilder. (The rest of the books on your list look really good, too.)

Ooh, great list! The Shadow in the Glass looks like one I'll have to read. :) Happy Halloween!

Oh my word!! These all sound amazing and will be added to my TBR.

These all look thrilling. I haven't read any of them. Happy Halloween!

Hallo, Hallo Susan,

It has been half an age since I've been able to travel round to visit with everyone; I've been struck down heavily in Spring & Summer this year with migraines whilst this past week I've been dealing with the grievious loss of 40+ year old cedar trees struck down for senseless progress and contruction for a project NO ONE will use as they have never needed it; so my emotions have been taxed. I'm hoping as we shift into November and Wintry months I can start visiting with better frequency as thankfully I will be feeling better than I have most of the year til now. Its been a long hard year for my family overall and it has been that way for many but I am just thankful I keep surfacing on my blog to be honest and inked out a bit of joy along the way too.

I appreciated seeing your comment pop up on today's Top Ten Tuesday as I switched things up a bit and did a creative topic for a blog tour - I felt the topic was spookified for the season and as I love ghost stories, its a regular theme I explore on my blog, too.

I LOVE Halloween - always have! I miss dressing up and sorting out my costume whilst I love now as an adult I can try mixed drinks which bartenders create for the holiday, too! I had a delightful cocktail a few years ago and I'm at a loss to remember what its called!? I renamed it though after a vampire! lol

I do love a good Cosy Horror, Contemporary or Historical Thriller and other chilling reads but honestly the ones you've selected are a bit too much for me to handle! Eesh. You really like that kind of chill! I just like it in a different way!

I will be revealling more posts leading into Halloween which play off my favourite themes for this time of year whilst trying to get all my #SpooktasticReads posts released - I had a shoddy connection last week and my connectivity isn't really improving this week but I'm trying to get through it the best I can. I had plans to release posts each day but the last several days I've just been emotionally spent over the trees and felt a bit sick in the process.

Thank you for continuing to support me and my Top Ten Tuesday posts! I hope you'll find another book to read through the ones I'll be blogging about soon.

This is the second year in a row that our girls have been gone on Halloween. It's still weird.

Great list. The Whispering House, The Nesting, and The Lost Village all sounds amazing.

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Being an "unwanted" sounds pretty fun! We aren't doing very much but hopefully it will be fun. I love your book choices! Definitely some thrills and chills (maybe a bit too many for me!)! I have The Ancestor on my TBR. It looks like an interesting one.

I love costumes! When I sign up for 5K "runs" (I'm a jogger at best), I will pretty much only sign up if I get to dress up. I guess you can tell where my priorities lie!

These books look plenty spooky to me! The Shadow in the Glass in particular catches my eye. I love a good fairy tale retelling. I do love Rebecca so Don't Tell a Soul looks good too.

I am so not a horror or scary book reader! I freak myself out too easily. But, I do like dressing up for Halloween :-)

Ooh I love a good scary read this time of year! And that sounds like a fun way to spend Halloween. :) Anyway, the Webb book I didn't realize was set on Lake Superior. And Moretti's book sounds good too!

The Shadow in the Glass sounds good. At the same time, it also doesn't seem like a horror book.

I was never a fan of dressing up either. It was really neat to see extravagant costumes, and it was a nice phase when I was really young and could fit princess dresses and such, but as I got older, honestly I'd just put on some black sweats and some cat ears and go with that...Not the greatest idea, but still acceptable to get some candy, so it was enough. Haha. As for the books, I don't like horror, but I love retellings, so The Shadow in the Glass has got me *very* interested.

I had to laugh. The one time I do a twist on the TTT, you follow the subject. LOL
I think "The Ancestor" could interest me. Thanks.

And thanks for visiting my TTT earlier.

Hey - thanks for dropping by my site & introducing yourself. I like your site. I'm a wimp about scary books and I don't read many. You have a good list here though. I'm trying to read some Shirley Jackson this week for Halloween but I'm feeling distracted. Hope you have a nice evening -- on Halloween! We just pass out candy ... & watch a movie / the usual.

Oh, Don't Tell A Souls looks so creepy and interesting!! I used to love a lot of things when I was younger and the older I get the more of a chicken I become!! I used to love scary movies but they became too gory and I was out!

Great list and Happy Tuesday!

The Girls of Brackenhill was my Amazon First Reads choice for the month! It sounds so good. :)

We don't celebrate Halloween in South Africa, so no dressing up or trick or treat. You also won't be able to leave a bowl of candy under the porch light. Bowl, candy and light will be gone within 30 minutes.

Most of your selection has the haunted mansion vibe. Love those. As long as there's someone with me in my own friendly house, I'll go for it!

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I was personally disappointed in Brynn Wilder but LOVED Brackenhill. I hope you love them both!

Susan, I have never been a big fan of Halloween either. I think an early night in with one of these spooky books, sounds much better than trick or treating! 😉

I didn’t know there was a new Mindy McGinnis book coming out! I need to read that one for sure.

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Oh, I didn't know there was a new Wendy Webb! I had a few from her backlist still waiting, but this one looks more exciting, haha.

Also I am definitely here to read a YA retelling of Rebecca! Honestly, all of these look good; you have great taste in creepy books.

My son has just hit that "I'm too cool to treat or treat" phase and it, in addition to COVID, definitely made this a weird Halloween for us. We handed out a little bit of candy but then spent the rest of the evening watching Harry Potter films, lol. Great list of books you've got here though. That Mindy McGinniss one has been on my radar too. It sounds so good.