Thank you for the Halloween recommendations. They all sound very interesting to me. Also, your red and white gingham dress is absolutely darling......Crystal. It's
Excellent video showing such a variety of spooky books ! It is a pitty that I have the genes of a rabbit and get scared from my own shadow and in my young years I have got a reading trauma from Edgar Alan Poe tales.Perhaps I should try the Gobbolino and the poems.But you make all these titles sound so interesting...Love your tea mug and your dress!😍😍😍
Thank you for some more great suggestions 🙂. I really fancy The Stranger Diaries. I absolutely love your background Halloween set up with your beautiful wallpaper & candles, so atmospheric. Also, your dress is gorgeous, I love it!
Thank you so much, Jane! I just loved The Stranger Diaries - such a good read. My mum hadn’t read it yet, but after I raved about it she raced through it too. Such a great Halloween read!
I’m so glad you shared your thoughts on “the haunting of hill house” by Shirley Jackson. I thought it might be really spooky but glad to know that you got through it 😊. Road Dahl short adult stories are some of my favourites. I like the eccentric way he writes his stories like Royal Jelly. So many good recommendations. I’ll have to revisit this video again. Take care.
His short stories are just fantastic! So glad you enjoyed this video, thank you! And yes - I really didn’t find The Haunting of Hill House frightening xxx
I look forward to every video. I enjoy to listen to you talk about so many different books that I might have never considered before. Some would be UK popular but not necessarily known in the US. But you also have a wide scope of different books you talk about and challenge me to maybe look at a certain book that I might dismiss, in a different light.
I have that exact same edition of the Edith Wharton book. Such a gorgeous cover! I was watching this video with my husband sitting in the same room, although he was not really listening. Until, that is, you mentioned The Stranger Diaries, when he snapped to attention. He loves Elly Griffiths' books and he had not yet heard of this one, so I am going to see if I can get it for him from the library. Also, I just ordered Sleep No More as it sounds really good.
Thanks for these suggestions. I'm going to make Pine my Hallowe'en read for this week. I love Oscar Wilde. It's nice to be reminded that he wrote a spine-chilling novel alongside all of his sparkling, witty plays.
Hi Miranda, I really enjoyed your spooky collection and have a couple that I haven't read to add to my wish list, thank you. I always like to read Susan Hill's ghost stories either now or at Christmas and The Small Hand was very atmospheric and scary. Enjoy your ghostly reading, Teresa 🍂🧡👻💛🍂
Thanks for another great post Miranda, there are so many books you mentioned that I have on my shelves and I'm excited excited again to get around to them. Being in the Southern Hemisphere it's usually hard to get into such atmospheric reads at this time of year but it's still quite cool and a bit wet at the moment so perfect for curling up with some spooky reads. I think I'm going to finally get to 'The Turn of the Screw' while the mood strikes! 'The Stranger Diaries' is a great book and the Ruth Galloway series is really worth reading as well, I've read all of them. I'll be interested to see what you think of them too. Happy reading!
Thank you so much! I’m glad to have inspired you to pull some books off your shelves. I’m so enjoying the Elly Griffiths books. Looking forward to reading more Ruth Galloway ones! Xxx
A friend of mine rented a room in Oxford in someone’s house for a night. I then told him about Dahl’s short story called The Landlady and my friend got so spooked he almost gave up. Dahl is amazing, for any age.
I just love everything about this, the beautiful table setting , the soft, cozy lighting and, as usual, your wonderfully descriptive and articulate suggestions. The Stranger Diaries is next on my list with Lolly Willowes--which I've been carting around for years--to follow. Thank you for reminding me of it!
Oh, wow!! So many awesome, spooky suggestions! I literally had to keep pausing the video to add books to my TBR or to put them in my AbeBooks cart - lol! I also loved how you decorated your side table - so pretty and the flowers are really lovely. How are you liking the oil lamp with castor oil? I have a lamp, too, and I wasn't sure about using the castor oil. Might try it, though. The spooky or autumn books I've read this month are: Frankenstein, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Silent Companions (loved!), A Quartet in Autumn, The Turn of the Screw (great on audio!), October October (omg...loved this book and I cried so much), Green Jade, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall, Cit of Ghosts, The Jane Austen Society, The Exorcist and How to Make Friends with a Ghost (soo cute with lovely illustrations!). I want to see if I can squeeze in a couple more books before November 1st - lol. Thank you for such awesome recommendations, Miranda! *hugs* xoxo :D (P.S. I always listen to Agatha Christie's Halloween Party on audio during this month. The Hercule Poirot tv adaptation is wonderful, too!)
Haha that’s lovely to hear, thank you! I love this oil lamp - I buy lamp oil that doesn’t smell too strong. It sounds like you’ve been reading some lovely titles too this autumn! 🍂📚💛
Wonderful recommendations as always, Miranda. I don't always manage to match my reading to the time of year but I love the idea! I have read in the past Michelle Paver's Dark Matter which is an exquisite ghost story about a small British expedition in the late 1930s in the Arctic, and I totally recommend it. Currently am reading Michelle Paver's Thin Air which again takes place in the 1930s, this time in the Himalayas; it is hugely atmospheric and great, great fun!
I held the Agatha Christie’s in my hands yesterday. Maybe I’ll read it. I’m currently reading An Ideal Husband by Wilde, and what an amazing writer he was.
I’m about to read Halloween Party by Agatha Christie for the first time. I’d not heard of Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat, but it sounds delightful and I will look for it for my nieces and myself.
Thank you as always for the great suggestions. I will add The Ghost: A Cultural History to my non-fiction November TBR. Currently reading the Woman in While by Collins, and will start Hallowe'en Party sometime this week. The Victorian Chaise Longue seems quite interesting!
I'm a year late here but I really appreciate your Halloween recommendations. I'm reading We've Always Lived in the Castle right now and really enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House last Halloween. You've given me several ideas for this season. Thanks and Happy Halloween!
What a lovely pleasure watching & listening to this video post. I just ordered "Gobbolino the Witch's Cat" from your link. Looking forward to reading it ... I love the title and the cover. QUESTION: re: your background wall, is it wall paper or a painted wall mural?
Thank you for another great episode Miranda...with your brilliant selections, my never-ending book list keeps growing and growing! Like yourself, I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to "scary" tales... but you have composed a list of titles that has me willing to brave the Halloween season with. Wishing you and your Mum a spooktacular Halloween weekend! ;-)
What a fabulous list, thank you so much. There are a few now on my wishlist! I'm currently reading the turn of the screw for the first time and really enjoying it. Another spooky book I love for halloween and have just finished re reading is the woman in black by Susan Hill, it's so atmospheric and chilling I love it.
@@MirandaMills I'd recommend you try, it is quite scary and has a good ending too. My husband and I went to see the play in York a few years ago and it aas so good! Just 2 actors on stage playing all the parts and the woman in black pops up in the audience every now and then! I wasnso scared but loved it!
oh the play does sound rather terrifying, but I'm sure it was excellent! I will give it another go at some point. Susan Hill is clearly a great ghost story writer; I'd like to try a few of her others too (just have to work up the nerve 😂 ) xxx
@@MirandaMills I also really love her non ghost story, non fiction work the magic apple tree. Its a beautiful journey through the changing of the seasons and cottage life in a village. I could not put it down!
I'm currently re-reading The Haunting of Hill House, and finding it just as unsettling as the first time. It's definitely psychological rather than jumpy/gory horror. Dark Tales is a collection of her short stories which is also very good, but very strange!
Thank you for this video Miranda! I have read The little stranger by Sarah Waters and it was spooky and very interesting. Do you celebrate Halloween in England? Cheers!
