Right now I'm listening to Richard Matheson's horror classic I Am Legend. You just can't go wrong with this one.
In stores now is Norman Partridge's excellent short novel Dark Harvest - highly recommended.
Some other good recent scares:
The Keeper - Sarah Langan
A Good and Happy Child - Justin Evans
The Imago Sequence - Laird Barron
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Other than the outstanding Val Lewton collection, I own very few horror films on DVD. But I do plan to watch two that I own:
1963's The Haunting, based on Shirley Jackson's superb novel The Haunting of Hill House. (Avoid at all costs the dreadful 1999 remake starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.)
No less haunting (and possibly more disturbing) is 1961's The Innocents (based on the classic Henry James story "The Turn of the Screw"), featuring a standout performance by Deborah Kerr.
Yes, both films are 40+ years old, both are in glorious black-and-white, and both are well worth your time. Have a happy, safe Halloween.
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