hp-chats

Latest Posts by hp-chats

funny little man full of exotic meats

Omegaling’s Halloween Reading List

Autumn is, without question, my favorite time of year.  The weather finally begins to cool, the air is perfumed by the scent of crisping leaves and wood smoke, stick-to-your-ribs dinners simmer on stove tops, the spicy-sweet taste of pumpkin tickles our palates, and, of course, it marks the coming of Halloween.  And what better way than to spend those darkening nights, where the shadows begin to move as though they’ve taken on a life of their own and leaves scatter in the wind as though fleeing some unseen threat, than curled up under a warm blanket with a hot drink, reading a good horror story?

Here is a list of my favorite Halloween reads compiled from over a number of years.  Hopefully you’ll be able to find some favorites among them as well.

Books of Halloweens Past

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

The Nevermore Trilogy by Kelly Creagh

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Horns by Joe Hill

The Devouring by Simon Holt

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan Howard

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Fang Girl by Helen Keeble

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, by John Kelly

Twelve by Jasper Kent

The Shining by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co.) by Jonathan Stroud

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

Affinity by Sarah Waters

My 2017 Reading List

The Deep by Nick Cutter

The Devil in the White City by Tony Goldwyn

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

For Halloweens to Come

Shutter by Courtney Alameda

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

Darkhouse by Karina Halle

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

The Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft

The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

Unspoken by Sarah Lees Brennan

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

Rawblood by Catriona Ward

A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

Abomination by Gary Whitta

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf

John Dies at the End by John Wong

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

nice

Good news for you, this August 23rd.

Let our flames be eternal fire.

Keep reading

Series of oddly cryptic images that trigger your flight or fight response

spring💐

*white mom voice* okay now lets do a silly one

Black Friday cast sing Inevitable from The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

can I please have a fren? 

joining a fandom late is both the worst and best thing because on one hand you get to skip all the crazy toxic hype and shit but on the other hand the fandom could completely die at any minute. 

Now THIS is what boys being boys should mean

I want what these cats have

TRUE LOVE 🌟💛🌻

I don’t have many walk cycles under my belt yet. They are a bit rough but I aim to improve!  Even so, I still hope some of my fellow Night in the Woods fans find enjoyment in this one!

As a side note I recently added a ko fi button to my tumblr page! I kinda just thought it was cute XD but I do drink a decent amount of coffee. If you guys like my work and wanna help fuel my late nights there she is!

yo I'm just really feeling those fuckin cottage core vibes right now dude

Orville Peck: exists 

Me: A GOD, AN ICON, BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING, PERFECTION 

what a sassy lassie 

Josh during 7 Rings at Ariana Grande’s Columbus show (via Josh’s instagram story 7/2/19) 

maybe this something that was done before but uhh

made a mothman to go with this jersey devil i drew last year

listen, do you hear? the faeries are near,,,

Whisper of the Heart (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondō

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Created by Dan Mumford

ENGINEER HUX

couples yoga 

someone who doesn’t watch Unus Annus, tell me what’s going on here

i am kiri :v 

So like. I’ve made a whole bunch of DnD characters lately?? There’s various reasons. But anyway. I was having a hella of a time designing one of them, so I went through a whole bunch of steps. Might be interesting to see.

You know what I want? I want a series centered around teenage Phasma and Armitage Hux flying around the galaxy, getting into stupid situations and trying not to die. I want a series wear they go into Phasmas backstory and her life with the Scyre Clan. I want a series that goes into the danger hux was constantly in as a kid and the suffering he endured at the hands of his father. I want a series that shows Rae Sloane doing her best to keep these kids alive. I want a series that truly shows how the First Order came to be. All I want is lil armie and lil phasma ok?