Local media host shares list of scary reads for the weekend

Traci Thomas, host and creator of the local book show The Stacks, released a curated list of horror recommendations on October 30.

Thomas compiled the titles to provide readers with material suitable for the Halloween weekend.

The list categorizes 32 books into three distinct groups: fiction, horror anthologies, and nonfiction.

In the fiction category, Thomas includes classic and contemporary titles. Stephen King appears twice with Carrie and Rosemary's Baby, the latter written by Ira Levin. Toni Morrison is represented by Beloved. Other authors listed are Agustina Bazterrica, Stephen Graham Jones, Chuck Tingle, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kim Bo-Young, Tananarive Due, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Victor LaValle, Jen Sookfong Lee, Carmen Maria Machado, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, Gabino Iglesias, Mariana Enríquez, Han Kang, and Mira Grant.

Several of these works are translated editions. Sarah Moses translated Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica. Sophie Bowman translated A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young. Megan McDowell translated Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez. Deborah Smith translated The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

The anthology section features three edited collections. Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. edited Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology and its sequel, Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II. Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams edited Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror. Cynthia Pelayo edited Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror.

The nonfiction section contains eight true crime and historical accounts. Lizzie Johnson wrote Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. Ben Wickey wrote More Weight: A Salem Story. Wright Thompson wrote The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. Philip Gourevitch wrote We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry wrote Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. Daniel James Brown wrote The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party. Heather Ann Thompson wrote Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Iris Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Richard Lloyd Parry wrote People Who Eat Darkness: Murder, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows.