Kanika Mahajan, Visakhapatnam
As in the west, it is a tradition to go pumpkin picking to find the finest and perfect pumpkin in enchanting farms (or your local grocery store if you’re like me).
So, I have taken it upon myself to save you some trouble and get those beautiful pumpkins for you, but the ones I have are no ordinary pumpkins- they are literary pumpkins.
Amazing books to get you into the October mindset.
The graveyard book
By Neil Gaiman
A beautifully crafted dark and mysterious masterpiece that keeps you hooked throughout and is perfect to get into the mood for Halloween.
Nobody “Bod” Owens is a normal kid, well as normal as a kid who lives in the graveyard and is raised by educated ghosts can be I suppose, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.
The graveyard poses few dangers and many adventures for our dear Bod as he faces the horrible menace of the sleer; finds a magical entrance, disguised as a gravestone, to a desert that leads to the heart of the city of ghosts where he forms allies and so much more.
We have always lived in the castle
To add a slightly darker tone to the holidays, follow 18-year-old Mary Katherine Blackwood as she expresses her sinister, disturbing, twisted, foreboding, suffocatingly claustrophobic tale that will leave you with an uncanny feeling.
She lives with her 28-year-old sister, Constance, in a big old house on the outskirts of a town. They are continually persecuted by the locals, who are convinced that one of them is a murderer: their whole family(except for scatterbrained Uncle Julian)was poisoned with arsenic six years ago(well that escalated quickly.O_O).
She has a particular interest in the death cap species of mushrooms and has taken up a liking toward people like Richard Plantagenet and Amanita phalloides.
the final girl support group
A suspenseful murder mystery written by Gardy Hendrix
‘The final girl’ is a popular phrase to address the last standing girl in a horror movie.
This story follows the real-life final girl, Lynnette Tarkington, who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago.
She's not alone. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other real final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the impossible to help them get over their issues and pull themselves together.
That is until one of the women misses a meeting…
Cackle
This frighteningly hilarious piece, written by the renowned author Rachel Harrison, will have you cackling with laughter (pun most definitely intended)
A heat broken teacher named Annie moves from Manhattan to a small town upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm.
She lives in an apartment that is quite wonderful indeed, well minus the peculiarly large spider infestation.
Then Annie met Sophie. Charming, magical, energetic Sophie, whose appearance is ageless yet unnatural. Sophie takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. But there is something strange as the rest of the town isn’t quite fond of her.
Real-life
An introverted young man from Alabama named Wallace (black and proudly queer) is following an unsteady path towards his biochem degree.
Wallace is like any other person, he is just trying to get through life.
He has left behind his family without escaping the darkness of his not quite awesome childhood. To preserve himself, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.
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