A while back, I discovered this cool website, The Shepherd.com. It's a book of lists, including all sorts of lists about books. Specifically, writers can create lists of their favorite books, and then categorize them by subgenre or topic.
Best Books About Demons. Best Books About Other Planets. Best Books About Monsters That Eat Cities.
You get the idea!
So, I decided it would be fun to do some of my own. And today, my first one came out. It's called The Best Books About Evil Houses, and it can be found here: Best Evil Houses.
I'm not going to spoil the fun of going to read the list by repeating it here, but I will say that the books I chose range from the 1950s to the 2000s, and they are all guaranteed to keep you up at night.
The reason I picked Evil Houses as my topic was partly because there wasn't one already done, partly because I love the whole haunted house concept, and partly selfish.
I'd just finished writing a book about a an evil, haunted house, called The Wakening.
The Wakening is actually based on a true story, one that I heard while in college. It was told to me by a priest who for years had been the official New York State exorcist for the Catholic Church.
He had a lot of stories, but one really stuck with me over the years and became the basis for the first chapter of the book, and from there I kind of ran away with it.
I've always been a fan of the classic monsters and tropes - vampires, haunted houses, mummies, werewolves, etc. - and I wish more of that stuff was still being written. Which is another reason I made my list - to remind people that you can still find great books in the horror genre without them including zombie apocalypses or chainsaw-wielding serial killers!
I hope you enjoy the list, and if you haven't bought the books on it, do that and enjoy them, too!
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