The Hallowe'en Top Ten Scary Stories Guaranteed to Chill Your Spine

In 1938 Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air produced a halloween episode adaptation of H.G. Wells'

 

Broadcast in the form of newscast,
Welles' Halloween prank successfully terrified the nation, panicking much of the Eastern seaboard and making the front page of The New York Times!

 
While we do not expect to drive widespread panic or hysteria, our top ten Halloween picks should keep you entertained, if you have a taste for horror and a desire to be scared, Happy Halloween!

 

The Halloween Top 10 (In No Particular Order)

 

1 "The Tell Tale Heart" by the grandaddy of modern horror, Edgar Allen Poe.
2 "The Haunting of Hill House" by, Shirley Jackson. It was the source for the wonderfully scary 1963 movie, "The Haunting".
3 "Salem's Lot" by the author who could fill a top ten on his own, Stephen King.
4 "Night Chills" by the hugely prolific and always readable, Dean Koontz.
5 "Rosemary's Baby" by Ira Levin. Satanism in Manhatten's Upper West Side: this one never fails to terrify me.
6 The Vampire Chronicles Series by the Queen of vampire fiction, Anne Rice.
7 "Dracula" the original and perhaps the best Vampire novel by the great Bram Stoker.
8 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" the classic tale of Ichabod Crane, by the early American author, Washington Irving.
9 "Something Wicked This Way Comes" the story of a nightmarish carnival that comes to a small Midwestern town by the great American novelist and short story writer, perhaps better known for his Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury.
10 "The Woman in White" this eerie and arresting story by Wilkie Collins is a perennial favourite, and certainly one of mine.

 

So there it is- our top ten, but we want to hear from you. So,check us out on Facebook and tell us your favorite scary stories or novels that you recommend for Halloween.

 

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