It's Spooky Season, Bookcasters!

Hey there Reader,

Last October I asked former guests to give me their recommendations for Halloween reads and had an incredible response both from the guests and from readers like you who loved the list. So of course we did it again this year, and the response was even bigger!

From kids's books to horror novels, classics to comics, here are recommendations from 17 former guests to help you fill up your Spooky Season TBR list - you can purchase all of these from a special Bookshop.org site (linked at the bottom). You can also hear all of these great folks talk about their work an more on the Bookcast at https://okiebookcast.buzzsprout.com/.

• Magen Runyan, Chapter 47: What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell; The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan; The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling (a romance); Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley's Great-Great-Great-Great -Great Granddaughter by Brea Grant (graphic novel): Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth: The Deep by Alma Katsu
• Martha Steele, Chapter 47: A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher; Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede (strong content warning); Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• J.J, Johnson, Chapter 41: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
• Sydney Aerin, Behind the Rain: The 7 & 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Ginny Myers Sain, Chapter 7: Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt; House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland; The Accident Season by Moira Fowley Doyle
• Heather Zeoli, Chapter 11: Bag of Bones by Stephen King
• Jeff Provine, Chapter 3: Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Eric Dabney, Chapters 15 & 16: Beware! by R.L. Stine
• Jerry Bennett, Chapter 19: Afterlife with Archie by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla
• Chad Lehrmann, YNGR July '23: Killtown by Chad Lehrmann; Suicide Town by Boris Bacic
• Betsey Kulakowski, Chapter 27: Autumn Tales (short story collection)
• Kathryn Lynn, Chapter 49: Lanny by Max Porter
• Victoria Moore, Chapter 12: The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino; She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (great YA horror!); Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan; Finches by A.M. Muffaz; Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted by R.J. Joseph; I Will Rot Without You by Danger Slater (real weird, zany body horror); Fish Gather to Listen (short stories)
• Melissa Coast, YNGR September '23: The Girl in the Locked Room and Took by Mary Downing Hahn
• Pamela Wilson, Chapter 40: Dark Blue by Elliot Motl
• Samantha Bailey, Chapter 49: Trial by Fire Trilogy by Josephine Angelini (YA Lit); Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (fiction/thriller)
• Nick Lyon, Chapter 37: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendricks; Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendricks; PenPal by Dathan Aurbach

On The Okie Bookcast this month:

• Best-selling Historical Fiction Author, Mary Kay Zuravleff (10/3)
• Behind the Rain: An Audio Anthology of Oklahoma Poetry, Volume 6 (10/12)
• Best-selling Crime Fiction Author, Lou Berney (10/17)
• Round Table Conversation about Killers of the Flower Moon (10/24)
• Your Next Great Read with special guest Stacey Kade (10/31)

Be sure to subscribe or follow on your favorite podcast app to get these episodes when they drop.

Go find something good to read!

J

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