The First Week of Halloween: Trick or Treat

The First Week show notes

Welcome, horror-curious listener, to our first set of recommendations for your best Halloween ever—including a novel that took us by surprise and knocked three others out of their first-show spot, and a movie selection that may cause some controversy. So have a listen and get your Halloween started!

Recommended in this episode

Poem

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandberg

Movies

Van Helsing (2004)

The Brothers Grimm (2005)

Books

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (also on Kindle)

also mentioned:

The Weird edited by Anne and Jeff VanderMeer

Stories to Keep you Alive Despite Vampires by Ben Acker (also on Kindle)

Comics

The Dark Horse Book of Horror edited by Dark Horse Comics (available on Hoopla Digital)

Podcasts

Camp Monsters podcast

Also mentioned

Dracula (1931)

The Mummy (1932)

Aliens (1986)

Bullit (1968)

Only The End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman (available in the collection Shadows Over Innsmouth edited by Stephen Jones, and as a graphic novel from Dark Horse or Hoopla Digital)

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