Halloween Literature and Music
For Halloween this year, I thought I'd create a blog post celebrating horror and supernatural themed books and music that I own and enjoy, kicking off with a selection of books first: This is a very enjoyable collection of tales from the Welsh author Arthur Machen, featuring his most famous weird, sinister tale 'The White People', which I highly recommend. I first wrote about Laird Barron on this blog in 2016 . He writes in the type of weird supernatural realms that I enjoy and he is one of my favourite authors. The Croning is a very disturbing tale of cosmic horror. I also wrote about Thomas Ligotti in 2016. This particular collection is very strong and has some of my favourite stories by Ligotti, 'Les Fleurs'; 'Dreams of a Manikin'; 'Dr Voke and Mr Leech'; 'The Sect of the Idiot'; 'The Music of the Moon'; 'Flowers of the Abyss'; 'In the Shadow of another World'; 'The Cocoons'; 'The Glamour' and '