As you doubtless all know by now, Neil Gaiman has suggested that on Hallowe’en we all give each other scary books. All Hallow’s Read, as the new tradition is called, has been swiftly endorsed by other writers and critics, including Stephen King and the Washington Post.
I’m not a big fan of horror myself, but there is a book coming out this week that I fancy giving myself for Hallowe’en. It is a graphic novel adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, and judging from this FPI review, it is very good.
In light of the recent post looking for recent sf novels by women, I would like to recommend Diving Into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Hard sf, and terrifying, and very, very good. I’m not much of a horror fan either, but it’s easily one of the best books of any kind I’ve read in the past year.