I’ve put together a list of 30 spooky reads that were turned into movies to use as a checklist for October! Hopefully I can make time for some scary movie marathons and binge reading. How many books and movies have you read/seen from this list?

• The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
• IT – Stephen King
• The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter) – Thomas Harris
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
• Psycho – Robert Bloch
• The Shining – Stephen King
• Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
• Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Carrie – Stephen King
• The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
• Bird Box – Josh Malerman
• Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
• The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
• Ring – Koji Suzuki
• The Girl Next Door – Jack Ketchum
• I Know What You Did Last Summer – Lois Duncan
• The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
• Pet Sematary – Stephen King
• Coraline – Neil Gaiman
• Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Schwartz
• The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
• In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
• Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn (technically this is a miniseries but I make the rules)
• Misery – Stephen King
• Jaws – Peter Benchley
• A Stir of Echoes – Richard Matheson

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