It's that time of year again: the time where I remember this blog exists and reappear to narrate my masochistic attempts to scare myself silly.
Welcome, one and all. October is literally next week, and it's time for me to plot out my horror reads. And watching. And listening.
This is a lifestyle, okay? One does not simply start reading a spooky story on October 1 and assume one has set the right mood for the season.
One must prepare.
Apologies in advance to the one reader of this blog and the FBI agent behind my webcam for this being very poorly organized. It's mainly me dumping titles - as you can see, I listed one book per day, like I'll be able to read one book while also wrangling teenaged hellions for a living and churning out homework as a student myself - and referencing said titles when I'm in the mood to lose more sleep than I already do on a nightly basis.
B O O K S
1. The Haunting of Hill House*
2. The Family Plot
3. Salem's Lot
4. The Graveyard Apartment
5. The Supernatural Enhancements
6.
7. The Grip of It
8. Under the Dome
9. The Little Stranger*
10. Anna Dressed in Blood
11. The Good House
12. Certain Dark Things
13. Dracula*
14. Now You're One of Us
15. Fledgling
16. Wilder Girls
17. The Passage
18. House of Leaves
19. Carmilla
20. The Winter People
21. The Terror (there's no way 800 pages can be finished in one day, but...)
22. Look for Me by Moonlight
23. This House is Haunted
24. Such Small Hands
25. Ring (I will never watch the movie, but the book seems safer)
26. The Haunting of Maddy Clare* (this is technically a romance but it is super spooky)
27. Sawkill Girls
28. Rosemary's Baby
29. Geek Love
30. Beloved
31. Hex
BONUS TITLES: Broken Monsters, Long Lankin, Fever Dream, I Remember You: A Ghost Story, Annihilation*
And then, we have the
MOVIES
(which I put less of considering how much I have to psych myself up to get through one horror movie)
(asterisks imply rewatches)
1. Suspiria (this may be cheating as I started this recently and have like twenty minutes left)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street*
3. Halloween*
4. The Blair Witch Project*
5. Midsommar
6. Get Out
7. It (the classic one, if I can make it past Georgie kissing Billy goodbye on the cheek without sobbing)
8. It Follows
9. The VVitch
10. The Shining
11. Psycho
12. Alien (the gore is the main thing stopping me here)
13. Evil Dead II*
14. Crimson Peak
15. Nosferatu
BONUS TITLES: The Wicker Man, The Wailing, Hush, The Sixth Sense, The Birds*
And of course, I will also be doing my annual rewatch of the sainted classics that are The Worst Witch (plus trying out the Netflix series that seems charming), Kiki's Delivery Service (my girl's a witch, okay? She counts) and Hocus Pocus. I may also rewatch classic Dracula and make myself watch 2000 Dracula for the culture (Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves).
I may also try some of the spookier Korean dramas that came out last year, but there's so much...eye stabbing. And for me, eye stabbing is no bueno.
And maybe work my way up to Japanese horror? Just not The Ring because I don't want to freak out for seven days imagining a ghost is after me?
I'm going to commandeer one of my free periods this week to craft an appropriate 8Tracks playlist that serves up autumn chill factors to accompany my reading, but my general autumn playlist will probably serve me well once again. It's been hard to work up specific themes when I live and breathe citypop and have been for the past year.
So there you have it.
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