HALLOWEEN T T T

 

T T T ~ on my history blog I chose as October's theme : Ghostly, Ghastly, Witchy, and Bitchy ~ here are 10 books that fit those four categories -

Ghostly

The Haunting of Hill House 

Shirley Jackson 

Four people enter a haunted house but will they make it out alive? 

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

A nanny cares for two children in a creepy spooky old house but are they the only occupants?

Ghastly

In Cold Blood 

Truman Capote 

Nonfiction novel masterpiece about murder on the Kansas plains

The Murderess 

Lori Notaro

Historical Fiction novel about Winnie Ruth Judd, known as The Trunk Murderess

Witchy

The Practical Magic Series 

Alice Hoffman 

Two sisters, after the death of their parents, go to live with their  mysterious aunts who may or not be witches, and may or may not be cursed in love

Bitchy

Rebecca 

Daphne du Maurier

Atmospheric Gothic thriller about an unnamed young woman who marries a man on a whim. Her new husband takes her to his mansion that maybe inhabited by the ghost of his not so nice ex-wife, and is inhabited by his not so nice housekeeper

See What I Have Done 

Sarah Schmidt

Lizzie Borden took a hatchet ... not exactly a catchy children's rhyme - but was Lizzie Borden really as bitchy as her reputation claims?