Spooky stories for Halloween 2008

Spooky stories for Halloween 2008

I have been thinking about recording some audio books from other people’s writing for some time now. Halloween is approaching, and what better reason to pick a scary story to record a special episode.

UPDATE: Sadly, due to work commitments driving me to 16+ hour days, it has been impossible to find the time to make this happen – very disappointing for me, and perhaps for you, too. I still aim to create a series of spooky audio stories in 2009.

Instead, follow the adventures of a ghosthunter in the audiobook Persistent Spirit!

So I am looking for suggestions. I want to record something classic, something traditional, yet genuinely scary. I have a few of my own ideas, and have had a few suggestions following posting this idea on twitter a few days ago. One particular story already has more votes than others, but I’m still very interested in hearing your thoughts as you might just come up with something no one else has thought of.

The story has to be out of copyright, of course, which means anything recent is out of the question.

If there is a traditional, classic scary story you would love to listen to this coming Halloween, please leave a comment below, get in touch via the contact form, or drop me an email. The story with the most votes wins, but I’ll not reveal which one until the actual day.

Posted: September 10th, 2008 | Filed under: AudioBooks | 10 Comments »
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10 Comments on “Spooky stories for Halloween 2008”

  1. 1 jEN said at 7:53 pm on September 10th, 2008:

    Poe, Tell-Tale Heart. (but you knew that)

  2. 2 Rowley said at 10:23 pm on September 10th, 2008:

    And I suggested The Raven.
    But I thought of another, possibly The Outsider by HP Lovcraft

  3. 3 Mom said at 6:35 am on September 11th, 2008:

    I was going to vote for The Tell-Tale Heart, but realized that although it is a classic, it’s not really my favorite. I don’t know about the copyrights for my choices, but I’ll list them anyway because they are great stories. I highly recommend them to anyone who likes spooky tales.

    l. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison). My personal favorite.

    2. The Yellow Wallpaper (can’t remember author). Very unusual.

    3. The Monkey’s Paw (can’t remember author). I expect this is familiar to some.

  4. 4 Natalie Ford said at 3:28 am on September 12th, 2008:

    I second Jen’s Poe suggestion.

  5. 5 Christmas Hampers said at 3:39 pm on September 23rd, 2008:

    There is a short story buy Asimov that would be perfect. Can’t for the life of me remember the title but it invovled taxidermy!

  6. 6 SAV said at 9:20 am on October 31st, 2008:

    YES, YELLOW WALLPAPER!!!!!!!

  7. 7 Montse Santa said at 9:26 am on October 31st, 2008:

    Happy Halloween Dudes

  8. 8 Rob said at 12:24 pm on October 31st, 2008:

    @Mom – The Monkey’s Paw is W. W. Jacobs, I had the book as a child and it scared me rigid. Great story, but you won’t sleep for a week.

  9. 9 Bala said at 2:15 pm on October 31st, 2008:

    Wow, some cool suggestions. I’ve just (literally a couple of days ago) discovered Lovecraft, and was freaked out by ‘The Lurking Horror’ and ‘Dremas in the Withc-House’. On a creepy scale, there’s also Roald Dahl’s ‘Skin’ – a short story which, although not horror as such, does make people shudder.
    I have to check out some of the above titles tho.
    Frightful Halloween :) (is ‘Happy’ an appropriate term!?)

  10. 10 sawyer said at 3:39 pm on October 31st, 2008:

    monkeys paw not that scary