Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week’s topic is: Halloween themed freebie — your choice (ie. 10 best ghost stories, 10 things that scare you in books, 10 literary Halloween costumes, 10 vampire novels, 10 books that WILL scare you, 10 non-scary books for Halloween, 10 scariest covers, etc.)
I’ve decided to go with: 10 creepiest book covers.
- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill – I don’t own this book
- Dracula by Bram Stoker – Despite owning three versions of this book I don’t have the cover I’ve featured.
- Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe – I don’t own this book
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – I don’t own this either
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James – I own this book but not the version I’ve featured.
- The Shining by Stephen King – Another book I don’t own.
- The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff – Don’t own.
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – I own this book and it has this cover!
- I am Legend by Richard Matheson – I own the book but not this version
- Carrie by Stephen King – I don’t own the book.
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What a coincidence! I chose the same topic this week, haha. 😄 Cool list! You have an interesting selection of books. ❤ My TTT.
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I had fun looking at loads of creepy book covers for this topic. I do want to buy all of the ones that I don’t own though. Oops 🙂
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The Shining!!! So creepy. I have a copy of The Shining that I think is possessed, so anytime I think about it, it freaks me out. The Replacement has always freaked me out because… well, there are sharp things and a baby which really don’t go together. Cool list 🙂
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Owning copy of The Shining that is possessed is not good! Maybe you should lock it in a box somewhere so that it can’t get to you.
I’ve not read The Replacement but the cover is so unsettling for the reason you said!
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The Replacement has an incredibly creepy cover!!! Oh! And I am Legend too. Happy halloween!!
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The Replacement is so creepy! And I wish I had the version of I am Legend that I’ve featured in my list instead of the cover I have (which is the movie cover). Happy Halloween! 🙂
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Hi! Poe is always creepy! And so many of those Penguin classics covers are creepy, even when they aren’t meaning to be! 🙂
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I think Poe himself was a creepy man so it just makes sense for his poetry and stories to be creepy.
I love the penguin classics covers for horror novels. They’re just so creepy and they fit perfectly with the stories 🙂
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They are all creepy – I love the original cover for The Woman in Black so much better than the movie tie-in edition. Here’s my TTT.
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I really need to buy The Woman in Black so that I can read it on Halloween night and I hope I get the original cover instead of the movie tie-in 🙂
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It’s a perfect creepy Halloween read!
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The Replacement is one of the creepiest covers I’ve ever seen. It’s why I bought the book. However I couldn’t finish the book. I just didn’t feel a connection to the characters.
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My desire to read it is mainly based on the cover too. I don’t know when I’ll get to read it though.
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Yikes…The Turn of the Screw is CREEPY looking. I keep looking at it and it looks like it’s looking back at me. *shivers*
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I know! I’m so glad I own a different version of that book. I don’t think I could deal with that cover!
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great picks! My TTT
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Thanks 🙂
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NICE topic^^ Except for the Poe collection I have yet to read any of these! I definitely want to read The Woman in Black, The Replacement, Dracula and Miss Peregrine. These covers are all perfectly creepy though 😀
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I’ve read some of Poe’s stuff but not the whole collection of his works. Dracula is so good but the start of it is very long. I’m thinking of reading The Woman in Black on Halloween night 🙂
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Great covers, especially the Dracula one.
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It’s so creepy and I love it. If I bought it though I’d have four copies of Dracula and that might be too many.
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How did you end up with three?
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I bought one for myself ages ago, then my grandparents bought me a cloth-bound copy for Christmas about four years ago, and then I had to buy an academic version for university 🙂
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Ha! I haven’t quoted Dracula in my Literature section yet, so feel free to suggest some. Do you have any favourite lines?
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Ooh, so many. They’re all a bit strange out of context though. There’s:
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
and
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
and
“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
They’re the three that I can find at the moment 🙂
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Thank you kindly, Amy. Excellent choices. I studied it at uni so I should remember it better.
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I’d just check those quotes because I’m not sure they’re accurate. I know that the first one is actually:
‘There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; and you are one of the lights.’
I’ll check the others too.
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The Dracula cover is perfect! It really grips at you… My TTT.
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I love that cover and I can’t believe I don’t have it even though I own three copies of Dracula! 🙂
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Three copies? That’s a lot! My friend also has an edition with red color on the outer edges of the paper, it looks gorgeous.
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Yep! It is a lot. That sounds like such a gorgeous copy. I wish I owned one like that but I don’t need any more copies 🙂
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I haven’t read any of them but Miss Peregrine’s and I don’t think I want to! They all look scary! 😉
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I haven’t read Miss Peregrine’s. I want to but I’ve heard mixed reviews. What did you think of it?
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I thought it was weird and good. I liked how the pictures were worked in but I still haven’t read the second book. So good but maybe not my favorite?
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Fair enough. I’m still undecided about reading it but most people are fairly positive about it 🙂
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Edgar Allan Poe! Love his work! Great creepy list! Happy Reading
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I love Poe’s work. It’s so great!
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That Turn of the Screw cover – yikes! My TTT – https://bookbearblog.wordpress.com/category/top-ten-tuesday/
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I know. So creepy!
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