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The House Next Door | Anne Rivers Siddons

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I REALLY enjoyed this one!!! Plus loved all the late 60s and 70s references. Who knew what a Bigelow was? It‘s a carpet- I had never heard of a Bigelow before, but I‘m definitely old enough to know what an Instamatic is! This book was sufficiently creepy in a Southern Gothic way. Loved it! #Georgia Pub date: 1978

JanuarieTimewalker13 Book 22 2025 finished on 10/10/25. Posted on 10/13/25 1d

mcipher Oooh I love this book, I‘ve read it so many times. And this is a great cover for it!! 1d

rubyslippersreads This is one Siddons I‘ve never read. Stacked. 14h

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JessClark78

The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson

#HauntedShelf #BookScavengerHunt

#Atmosphere

+16 points #BlackCatCrew

BookwormAHN, PuddleJumper

KCofKaysville @JessClark78 I have only seen the old b/w movie but may read this since I liked her stories about her kids. 4d

BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 3d

dabbe @KCofKaysville @JessClark78 The 1962 movie is in my top 5 movies of all time, and the book is my favorite ghost story of all time. L♥️VE this book and movie! 3d

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vonnie862

The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson

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It's always fun to read a spooky classic, especially during October. I liked the Gothic vibe of the book and I enjoyed the characters (the doctor's wife, not so much). I highly enjoyed a good ghost story.
4⭐️

#BookspinBingo #hauntedshelf #screamteam

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LeahBergen

The September House | Carissa Orlando

This is starting out so well! A middle-aged woman finally buys her dream house (Victorian! A wraparound porch!) and nothing - not her husband nor the numerous ghosts or bleeding walls - will get her to leave it. I‘m really enjoying the satirical tone. 😆

Tamra Oooooooo 👻 5d

Cathythoughts Sounds great 👍🏻😁 5d

Cathythoughts And right on season. Stacked 👍🏻 5d

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LeahBergen @Tamra @Cathythoughts 😊 4d

Tamra I‘ll be looking for your review before I stack it! 4d

MemoirsForMe The bleeding walls would be a dealbreaker for me! 😳🩸 2d

LeahBergen @MemoirsForMe Right?? 😂 2d

iread2much In this housing market I can understand refusing to leave, even with ghosts! 1d

LeahBergen @iread2much Exactly!😆 1d

LeahBergen @Tamra Well, I finished and thought it was a clever twist on the usual haunted house novel. You have to have a high tolerance for gore, I think. 😆 1d

Tamra @LeahBergen 😝 I‘ll try it on audio if I can get it and see how it goes. 🩸🩸 I do love a clever twist! 1d

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DeeLew

Diavola: A Novel | Marie Thorne, Jennifer

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This was a good ghost story. A haunted Italian villa? Yes! I would have given this 5 stars, but every single character, except the MC, was horrible and unlikable. I‘m really thankful that my family is not like this! Still, I enjoyed it and think it‘s perfect for spooky season.

Reggie Totally, the horrific part of this book was the family for sure. 5d

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dabbe

The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe

To continue with all things spooky this month, how about sharing your three favorite scary movies? You can comment below or create your own post. I'll share our results next week. If you want to give some sort of scare-o-meter, go for it! All are welcome to play. Let's have some much-needed fun! Tagging a few to get this party going! 🧡💜🧡

AmyG, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Susanita, OriginalCyn620, TheLudicReader, Suet624, Deblovestoread, Tamra, JessClark78, Chrissyreadit, Sace, CBee, ImperfectCJ, Dilara, LiseWorks, AnnCrystal, uncommonlycozies

Tamra I will mention one that gave me nightmares throughout my childhood, that is Wizard of Oz. Not the flying monkeys, no, it was the witch‘s legs with those striped socks sticking out from under the house! 😵 6d

Karisa 🦋 Silence of the Lambs, 🦈 Jaws, ♥️ Handmaid‘s Tale (streaming) 6d

ImperfectCJ Current faves are Rosemary's Baby, Nope, and Sinners. As a teen/young adult, it was probably Poltergeist, the 1992 Candyman, and still Rosemary's Baby. My parents were big horror movie appreciators with no limits on what us kids could watch, so I've been watching horror movies for as long as I can remember (the first movie I remember seeing is The Amityville Horror). 6d

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Billypar I'm a huge horror fan, and my three favorites could be different on any given day. But today, I'll say The Thing, Poltergeist, and Ouija: Origin of Evil. 6d

KT1432 Joshua (creepy kids/bad seed movies are my jam), The Purge, Sleepy Hollow, honorable mention to Gremlins for the comedy 😆 6d

LeahBergen The Woman in Black, A Stir of Echoes and The Others. Creepy! 😬 6d

willaful I don't watch many, but my favorites are “Get Out,“ “Phantom of the Paradise“ and “Carrie.“ 6d

Dilara I am a sensitive soul who doesn't do horror movies. I had to watch Tesis by Alejandro Amenábar in Spanish class. Walking in the university's deserted corridors afterwards was a bit of an ordeal... It definitely doesn't count as a favourite movie!
Looking at other people's answers reminded me that I did watch Get Out out of my own free will and like it. So, that's one 😊
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Dilara On the spooky side, my daughter went through a Casper the Friendly Ghost phase: we had the VHS of the 1995 film and we watched it together countless times. I don't know whether it stands the test of time though!
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AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩 So many grand movies mentioned here! 🤔 I'm going to create a post for this one! Thank You for the Tag 👏🏼🥳👌🏼👻🎬💝. 6d

Bookwormjillk Let‘s see. The Shining, Jaws, and What Lies Beneath are the three that come to mind. I remember seeing What Lies Beneath at the movie theater and people were pacing up and down the aisle we were all so tense. 6d

LiseWorks The scream movies 6d

kspenmoll I am tooo scared to watch horror movies-the visuals haunt me forever! I will say Wizard of Oz when I was young- that wicked witch etc! 6d

Suet624 No scary ones for me. The Exorcist was the last scary movie and that was in a movie theatre in full gory detail. 6d

Cuilin Oh gosh I don‘t do scary. The Blair Witch frightened the beejus out of me. I probably should not have watched it postpartum. I guess that‘s on me. 😆 6d

dabbe @Tamra That was so traumatizing as a kid! Have you seen the bookmark for it? https://www.etsy.com/listing/1862041291/wicked-witch-legs-bookmark-wizard-of-oz?...
Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Karisa Excellent choices! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @ImperfectCJ I just read ROSEMARY'S BABY last year, and I loved it. I've never watched the movie, though. On the TBW list! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Billypar I just watched POLTERGEIST last night! Man, that was a scary one! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @KT1432 I forgot about GREMLINS! A horror movie where you laugh: how ingenious! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @LeahBergen THE OTHERS is a fave. Totally surprise ending on that one! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @willaful I just watched GET OUT last year. W😱WZA! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Dilara Kudos for watching that one. It scare the heck out of me! Do you do ghost stories? There are ones that are much tamer and not gory. Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Dilara I should have read further. CASPER is perfect! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @AnnCrystal #yahoo! 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Oh, lordy, WHAT LIES BENEATH was terrifying! To see Harrison Ford play evil was just crazy! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @LiseWorks The first one always does it for me. #classic Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @kspenmoll The monkeys are what almost threw me off the ledge! Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Suet624 I've read THE EXORCIST but never had the courage to actually watch the movie! The books was easier to handle, I think. Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

dabbe @Cuilin OMG, that movie! I got physically ill when I got home after seeing that one. All the jagged camera movements gave me a severe case of vertigo. 😱 Thanks for sharing. 🍿🖤📽️ 5d

Tamra @dabbe omg, no! That is hilarious. I think I might need to get it. 😂 5d

LiseWorks @Suet624 I was 14 when I read the book, couldn't sleep for weeks 5d

dabbe @Tamra 😂😍😂 5d

ImperfectCJ @LeahBergen The Others is awesome, and I'd forgotten about Stir of Echoes! 5d

LeahBergen @ImperfectCJ I might need to watch them again 😆 5d

CindyMyLifeIsLit The Grudge REALLY scared me! I couldn‘t sleep without a night light for two weeks! 😂Another really scary one is Hell House LLC. If IT didn‘t ruin clowns for you, this one will! The Haunting of Hill House (series) is also scary, I thought. (Midnight Mass is great, too—both created by the inimitable Mike Flanagan)! 5d

dabbe @CindyMyLifeIsLit Never saw these. One the TBW list! Thanks for sharing. 📽️🖤🍿 4d

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KT1432

The Grip of It: A Novel | Jac Jemc

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Not for everyone, but it was certainly for ME!! Wtf did I even read lol? A haunted house story of sorts…(or haunted marriage?), inexplainable events keep recurring, madness ensues, and a couple simply looking for a fresh start collectively loses their minds. Who or what is haunting who? There are no concrete answers. Subtle, creepy, scary literary gothic horror. 4⭐️s #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew Cover #ScavengerHunt and #BookRec for Frightful

BookwormAHN

KT1432 I will for sure have to get my own copy of this! 6d

BookwormAHN 🩶🐈‍⬛🩶 6d

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Skygoddess1

The Carrow Haunt | Darcy Coates

Got so engrossed in this book that I forgot to neon the lookout for words from the #HauntedShelf word search, but the repetition of the word spirit in this paragraph reminded me. #GrimReaders

CSeydel

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Nicki_K

The September House | Carissa Orlando

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A seamless blend of horror/supernatural thriller, mystery,domestic suspense, and psychological thriller.To say I was captivated by just what was going on in this house would be an understatement I was fully engaged in it from start to its amazing and very satisfying ending. How Carissa managed to weave this book together with these themes and still blow my mind! An atmospheric, darkly disturbing, haunting read in all the very best of ways.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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BookwormAHN

Kill Creek | Scott Thomas

Here are the picks for #CastTheDie
@PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Oo interesting selection! 1w

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