5 terrifying books Stephen Graham
Jones recommends for Halloween
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Looking for a good scare? One book he recommends 'crawls inside your head and lays eggs.' So, be warned.
Author Stephen Graham Jones lists his Top 5 scary reads. (Images courtesy of Viking Press, Soho Press, Inc. and Doubleday) |
Author Stephen Graham Jones loves a good, scary read. When he’s not terrifying the masses with his own works like “The Only Good Indians,” “Mapping the Interior” or his latest, “My Heart is a Chainsaw,” he’s enjoying something sinister.
During a recent interview, Jones revealed he was about to dive into S.A. Crosby’s latest, “Razorblade Tears” after having already devoured the author’s previous novel, “Blacktop Wasteland.” He also revealed that Jack Ketchum’s “The Girl Next Door” is the scariest thing he has ever read.
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T
he first time I ever thought about what my house was made of was
when I learned it could be blown down. By wolves—big, bad wolves.
Sure, “The Three Little Pigs” was supposedly a fairy tale about hard
work. But for me, it was a warning about my own safety. And though I soon
dismissed the fables read to me at bedtime as childish, that need to
know I was safe never waned, especially as the wolves became real.
Shawn Michael Jones for TIME |
T
he first time I ever thought about what my house was made of was
when I learned it could be blown down. By wolves—big, bad wolves.
Sure, “The Three Little Pigs” was supposedly a fairy tale about hard
work. But for me, it was a warning about my own safety. And though I soon
dismissed the fables read to me at bedtime as childish, that need to
know I was safe never waned, especially as the wolves became real.
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The American Library Association (ALA) is an organization that advocates for diversity, inclusion, and education. Its Office for Intellectual Freedom monitors and assembles data about banned and challenged books in the US, culminating in Banned Books Week — an event that celebrates freedom in reading. In this list, we used data from the ALA to compile some of the most banned and challenged books of the past three years.
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