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And we hope you had a Happy Halloween!
October 1
A Book: The Stand is an epic battle between good and evil by Stephen King in the aftermath of a horrifying worldwide plague.
And A Movie: The Evil Dead (1982) is a cult classic that stars Bruce Campbell in his first fight with the Deadites.
October 2
A Movie: John Carpenter’s The Thing traps Kurt Russell in the arctic with one of the grossest shape-shifting aliens ever.
And A Book: The Annotated HP Lovecraft collects four of the horror pioneer’s best-known stories with many interesting footnotes.
October 3
A Book: Dracula by Bram Stoker uses letter and diaries to tell the story of one of fiction’s first vampire and the people who hunt him.
And A Movie: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) is a fantastic adaptation of the novel starring Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins.
October 4
A Book: People become terrifying rage monsters after an alien invasion on the microscopic level in Infected by Scott Sigler.
And A Movie: Trick R Treat is a horror anthology that includes everything great about Halloween in one movie.
October 5
A Movie: You’ll never look at trucks (or their drivers) the same way after watching Duel, one of Steven Spielberg’s first movies.
And A Book: Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend is another classic vampire story and the inspiration for Night of the Living Dead.
October 6
A Book: A musician must face off against a demon from his past in Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
And A Movie: Scream parodied the slasher movies of the 80s while still providing plenty of scares on its own.
October 7
A Movie: It might seem a little corny today but the original Friday the 13th is still a movie to lose your head over.
And Two Books: The zombies are everywhere in World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, both by Max Brooks.
October 8
A Book: The Long Walk is the first book Stephen King ever wrote and the dystopian novel is still one of his best.
And A Movie: Don’t make a sound when giant underground worms try to devour a Nevada town in Tremors.
October 9
A Television Show: Gather round the campfire for Are You Afraid of the Dark? Volume 1, an episode collection of the Nickelodeon show.
And A Book: If the stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz don’t scare your kids the illustrations will.
October 10
A Book: Quoth the librarian… you should read The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe.
And A Movie: Prepare yourself some fava beans and a nice Chianti before sitting down to watch Silence of the Lambs.
October 11
A Movie: “If it bleeds, we can kill it!” And if its available, you should watch Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And A Book: If you ever wanted to read about Han Solo fighting zombies, Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber is for you.
October 13
A Book: A hardboiled vampire detective chases down a zombie in Already Dead by Charlie Huston.
And A Movie: They say that no one can hear you scream in space. Clearly these people weren’t watching Alien starring Sigourney Weaver.
October 14
A Television Show: Catch up on everyone’s favorite zombie show with The Walking Dead: Season 1.
And A Book: Feed by Mira Grant mixes together zombies and a Presidential election. Trust me, it’s better than the debates.
October 15
A Book and A Movie: We’ve got a two-fer today as The Exorcist (the book by William Peter Blatty and the movie starring Linda Blair) is scarily turning heads.
October 16
A Movie: Wes Craven showed us that he didn’t need a dreamy demon to make a scary movie with Red Eye starring Rachel McAdams.
And A Book: Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is considered by many to be one of the best haunted house tales of all time.
October 17
A Book: In The Terror, Dan Simmons blends a fictionalized version of an 1845 arctic expedition with a monster story.
And A Movie: Today’s pick is here as we recommend the haunted house flick Poltergeist from 1982.
October 18
A Book: Clive Barker is one of the biggest names in horror and his Books of Blood trilogy is a good one for new fans.
And A Movie: Candyman is based on a short story by Clive Barker and it’ll make you think twice about looking at mirrors.
October 19
A Book: Government experimentation, an army of super-intelligent monkeys, and murder! Read Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz.
And A Television Show: Prepare yourself for its return in January with all nine seasons of The X-Files. The Truth Is Out There!
October 21
A Book and A Movie: It’s another book/movie combo as we make The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson (and its 1979 film adaptation) today’s pick.
October 22
A Book: Another book from Dean Koontz as we select his apocalyptic monsterfest The Taking today.
And A Movie: If you love vampires, we recommend the bonkers fun of From Dusk Til Dawn starring George Clooney.
October 23
A Book: They’re not zombies, but the “haters” in David Moody’s novel Hater will tear you apart just the same.
And A Movie: Let Me In is a moody coming-of-age movie about a lonely boy who meets a lonely girl (who’s also a vampire).
October 27
A Book: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is terrifying and unsettling and almost beyond description.
And A Movie: What’s that in the shadows? It’s Insidious, a pretty great haunted house flick from 2010.
October 28
A Movie: The Conjuring is a spooky little film about a pair of paranormal investigators in the 1970s.
And A Book: An evil spirit haunts four men with a secret in Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.
October 29
A Book and A Movie: The devil took possession of today’s pick, selecting Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin and the film starring Mia Farrow.
October 31
A Movie: Listen up! Our final movie pick is Army of Darkness, which will prepare you for tonight’s premiere of Ash vs Evil Dead.
And A Book: This is it, so fittingly enough, the last of our scary selections is It by Stephen King.
Published on November 1, 2015.
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