The origins of All Hallow’s Eve go back to the Celts, whose autumn festival Samhain celebrates the end of the “lighter half” of the year and beginning of the “darker half.”

Come to the dark side with one of our spooky books. And have a very happy Halloween.

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
• Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (this month’s Big Read)
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Tags: Free books, Halloween, short stories, suspense, Thriller

• Posted on 29 October, 2009
  by MaggieH
• Category
  Books, Publicity