It’s Halloween tomorrow, and tonight the 4th Estate team will be busy designing costumes, whittling pumpkins and stockpiling sweets. And most importantly, reading. Here are the books we recommend you scare yourself silly with this evening – from chilling children’s books to fearsome fiction to terrifying true crime (but including no ghost writers, suprisingly). As the Goosebumps books used to say on the cover: reader beware… you’re in for a scare…
October is here, we’re all getting chillier (yet somehow the tube stays just as hot?) and everywhere we go, Halloween paraphernalia seems to be creeping out of various stockrooms… Although our month on the site isn’t dedicated to the scariest night of the year per se, it wouldn’t be October on the 4th Estate blog without something gothic/monstrous… Read more…
A perfect addition to spooky Halloween festivities that children will love, you could even add spider decorations to this cheesecake for a full spider-web effect. Read more…
By Jeff VanderMeer.
Like many readers, I’m extremely curious to read iconic film director David Cronenberg’s first novel, Consumed. How will that imagination be expressed solely through the written word? How might his expertise in movies create unique approaches to literary technique? Especially considering how broad and deep that film oeuvre has become.
