Halloween/October reading?

[2D8HP]

As another Halloween and October passes by (and has already passed for those "back east"), I put away a book that's kept me company this month.
For decades I've had the ritual of reading a Halloweenish anthology for the month of October.
Some of my choices have included:

Ray Bradbury's "The October Country"
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Fritz Leiber's "Heroes and Horrors"
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Leiber's "Night Monsters"
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"The Best of H. P. Lovecraft"
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"The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe"
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"Vampires" (aka "Penguin Book of Vampire Stories")
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and
"Witches and Warlocks"
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Anyone else do anything similar?

[Fri]

bogleech.com (warning, it's a site by a fan of disgusting creatures like insects and snails) have an annual horror story contest in halloween, and usually the stories, more specifically the winners, are really pretty darn good. I used to read it every halloween.

[BiblioRook]

When it comes to Halloween-ish series the first thing that comes to mind is a seemingly (and undeservingly I feel) obscure favorite of mine; the Johannes Cabal (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5750628-johannes-cabal-the-necromancer) series. It's a comically serious series about the adventures of a 'good' modern necromancer, ranging from running a circus of the damned to investigating a 'closed room' murder on board an airship to even venturing into Lovecraft's Dreamlands. I can't recommend it enough.

[JoshL]

I don't get very seasonal; I read and watch as much horror throughout the year as I do during October. But as far as anthologies, I did just do a re-read of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, and I've been on a huge Thomas Ligotti kick lately. There's a fairly recent re-press of Songs of A Dead Dreamer/Grimscribe that I can't recommend enough. In particular the story "Vastarien" which hits many of my personal interest buttons! Some good picks in here, and I haven't read that Johannes Cabal, that sounds right up my alley too, so I'll have to check that out!

[Fri]

When it comes to Halloween-ish series the first thing that comes to mind is a seemingly (and undeservingly I feel) obscure favorite of mine; the Johannes Cabal (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5750628-johannes-cabal-the-necromancer) series. It's a comically serious series about the adventures of a 'good' modern necromancer, ranging from running a circus of the damned to investigating a 'closed room' murder on board an airship to even venturing into Lovecraft's Dreamlands. I can't recommend it enough.

That sounds good and actually exactly the kind of premise I'd like/


thanks for notifying me about it.