Tag: Dracula

• Reading journal: Mid-February

  Reading has slowed down, although I have one new recommendation to post shortly. I reread The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin with my son, which I think was a bit too old for him, but I still love it. I also reread Dracula on audio. I last read Dracula as a pre-teen or youngish teen. I don’t remember exactly when, […]

  Shannon Turlington

  February 15, 2016

  Reading

  Acquisitions, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Ellen Raskin, Genres, I Remember You, Icelandic fiction, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let Me In, Penguin Classics, Reading, Rereading, Swedish fiction, The Westing Game, Vampires, Yrsa Sigurdardottir

• Halloween picks: The Scariest books

  I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big […]

  Shannon Turlington

  October 30, 2014

  Reading

  Classics, Day of the Triffids, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Halloween, Haunting of Hill House, Heart-Shaped Box, HG Wells, Horror, House on the Borderland, HP Lovecraft, Ira Levin, IT, Joe Hill, John Wyndham, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Max Brooks, NOS4A2, Ray Bradbury, Rosemary’s Baby, Scariest books, Scary, Scott Smith, Shirley Jackson, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stephen King, The Ruins, The Shining, War of the Worlds, William Hope Hodgson, World War Z