All Hallows Read Giveaway
Last year, I decided to centre my very first giveaway around one of the themes I love the most: Halloween! A day after posting it, I discovered Neil Gaiman’s little ‘project’/initiative of All Hallows Read (clicking on the graphic up here should take you to the corresponding website for it). I then figured I wanted to turn this into the annual tradition it’s supposed to be, and because it’s officially Halloween today, I’m throwing another AHR giveaway party!
And because I’m almost done with Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book myself now (I hoped I would be able to finish it today for this post but alas) and I’m absolutely loving it, I’m giving away three paperback copies of it this year = three winners = more happiness!
My question this time is the same one as last year because I actually got some great recommendations out of that.
What’s your favourite scary book?
Click on the book cover below to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway and don’t forget to leave your answer in the comment section below as well! Good luck and Happy Halloween!!!
I don’t read scary books lol buuuutttt I will be sharing this to let others know =)
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Hahaa, thank you!!! This secretly isn’t a really scary book, but more of a cute Tim Burton movie book about a boy growing up in a graveyard :D. LOL, SCORE!! XD
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Aweome!!!!
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Okay so I don’t read a lot of spooky books and I have never read Neil Gaiman. So I’m going with some slightly creepy, suspenseful books. Holding Smoke by Elle Cosimano was really good the boy in prison can sort of teleport by smoke to find out what is happening outside of jail. He can only do it so many times before he permanently looses his ties to his body. Will he be able to find out who set him up before he becomes untied? I’m also going with Wolf Road by Beth Lewis. This book took me places I was not expecting and I was thoroughly grossed out by the end. The poor girl gets taken by the hunter and then she herself is hunted by the same hunter… it’s creepy. Thank you for the chance at winning 😀
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Ooh, if you like Tim Burton movies, you’ll like Neil Gaiman books. They’re so surreal but full of magic. Just like this one!! 🙂 It’s more of a Middle-Grade story about a boy growing up in a graveyard. After his parents were murdered by a serial killer. whooooooo (that’s my spooky voice). OH, Holding Smoke sounds totally like my kind of book!! And I’ve read 2 brilliant reviews from Wolf Road recently, so that one is definitely high on my list! Thank you for entering! ❤
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Just finished reading Holding Smoke and really liked it!
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I know I kind of feel like that book flew under the radar!
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Another reason to read it!! 🙂
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I don’t read horror books hehe.. thriller & suspense are ones I’m willing to read 🙂 Very nice of you to do a giveaway though. Are you dressing up for Halloween? What will you be if you are?
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Ah, but this isn’t really horror. It’s more of a Middle-Grade/YA book actually! About a boy who grows up in a graveyard :). I celebrated it last Saturday and went as a Bruja skeleton (if that’s what it’s called). Are you celebrating it and/or dressing up?
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I dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood last year. This year I will only stay home to hand out candies hehe
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Cute!!! 😀 Haha, somebody has to! I never thought about that but if everyone goes trick-or-treating. That would be a mad scenario with no candy at all
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I don’t read many spooky reads BUT Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger totally has eerie vibes with some spook. I just started The Graveyard Book audiobook yesterday & already LOVING IT! 🙂
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YES! Ink and Bone is one of my top priorities at the moment!! Oooh, I’m listening to it as well and Neil Gaiman is just the best narrator you can find <3. And the story is nice and quirky!
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Yes!!! Stardust by Neil Gaiman is what made me a fan, he has the perfect story telling voice 😃
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I haven’t listened to Stardust yet, but I will! The Ocean at the End of the Lane is also highly recommended. I’m melting whenever I hear his voice sighs ;).
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Lmao!! 🙈🙈🙈
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I’m gonna go with an recent read but PsychoAnalysis was definitely creepy. It’s about a female serial killer who wants to quit.
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OH MY, that sounds awesome! Like a bit of Dexter but not really 😉
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It was really good! Sick and twisted but that’s what I like haha
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Hahaha, cheers to that!!
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Thanks for the giveaway!!
My favorite is probably a couple of Stephen King books like Misery and Pet Sematary.
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Stephen King is always a winner when it comes to scary books! Thank you!! 😀
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What a cool idea! Happy Halloween! I had a tooth pulled, yay! (Sarcasm)
I’m not doing anything tonight…I suck.
My favorite scary book is Scary Stories to Read in the Dark…it’s a children’s book I read when I was younger and it scared the hell outta me. Also, Stephen King is the “king” of horror. I don’t read a lot of horror anymore: I’m a big wuss and don’t like to be scared! 😳
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Was that part of your costume, though? Bloody mouths are terrifying!! I can recommend heparin to really keep that blood flowing. Oh, wait, you weren’t doing anything huh? Well, never mind then!!
That’s one I haven’t heard of before, so poof, onto my TBR! He is, he really is (hehe, I see what you did there). Neither do I, only horror for kids because anything creepier will give me nightmares galore. Low non-creepy fives
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Low non-creepy five back! And yes, I just told people that I was eating zombie brains, and that explained my bloody mouth! 😲☠️
Can you lend me that magic wand that instantly adds books to your TBR??
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Ace! I would’ve done the same thing ;). Well, I don’t know how my husband feels about that, but I can ask??
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Okay, at the risk of sounding cliche, I am giving this one to Mr. Stephen King with The Shining. I first read that stinking book when I was probably 12 or so.. don’t know for sure. It was forbidden fruit, so I snuck it out of the library and slept with it under my bed for a week. Although I did little sleeping. That book messed with my psych. I was disturbed by Jack Torrance’s breakdown and terrified for Danny. And room 217 still haunts my dreams. Yuck! I reread it every few years and it still terrifies me!
Love this whole Halloween Giveaway! Go you ❤ Making me look bad hehe.
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That sounds perfect to me! ❤ I read it in a tent during the summer holidays when I was around 13ish as well. SO CREEPY!! Hahaha, making you look bad how?!
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I have no cool Halloween giveaway haha, that’s how 😉 ❤ I do not think I could manage The Shining in a tent. You have some serious balls!
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Oh pfff, silly sausage! ❤ In my ‘defense’ I had no idea what I was getting myself into at the time. Plus, my English vocabulary sucked 😉
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Whaaaaa… Your English is beautiful ❤
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❤ It’s reasonable now but it certainly wasn’t when I was 13 😉
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What a fun giveaway! My favorite scary book would probably be Seeing Evil by Jason Parent or Dracula. I love Dracula!!
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Dracula is awesome!😀
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Dracula is awesome!! ❤ Thank you for entering!!
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I don’t read scary books, but I have read a few books with creepy elements. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children definitely had its creepy moments and A Monster Calls also had an eeriness to it.
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Those count! A Monster Calls will probably be my Halloween read for next year with the speed I’m reading at currently…
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The Wolf Road is a stunning book!😀
Scariest book, hhmm, I’m a gonna go with Into The Guns – that horrific book I reviewed last week as just the thought of it’s terribleness scares me!😂
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I will definitely go for that one soonish! 😀 Not the Into the Guns one, though :’). Hahaha! FUBAR for sure!! :’)
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Yeah, stay away from that book, unless you have an enemy, perfect gift for someone you hate that book would be!😂
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Ah, to hell with repenting, this sounds like an excellent idea! rubs hands
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Definitely Coraline, it gives me the CREEPS
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Haha! Really? 😀 I’ve only seen the movie so far and thought it was cute. Buuut, the whole stuck behind the door thing-idea was pretty creepy now that I think of it…:/
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I haven’t read many… but A head full of ghosts was amazing!
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And added to my TBR! 😀
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haha sadly (or luckily depending on your perspective?) I have read this already- but I’ll answer your question anyway- it’s got to be turn of the screw or yellow wallpaper!
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Haha! I don’t know from which perspective I’m looking at it now. OMG, the emotional turmoil!!!! tears out hair. But awesome titles, thank you! 😉
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Hahaha that makes me sound like I’ve got two personalities going on! Hahaha you’re welcome!
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Ya crazy monkey! 😉 ❤
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Hahaha agreed!
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I like Tim Burton movies. They’re weird as all hell, but they usually have Johnny Depp in them, and when it comes to him, where do I sign up? drool 🙂 I read a few spooky reads this month, and then of course, I wrote my own creepy Circus of Blood. It was a fun month with lots of books to read.
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Yes to Tim Burton and Johnny Depp! Lol. He’s like a fine wine….slurps! You definitely read more spooky books than I did! 🙂
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Hands down, The Exorcist! Runners up would be The Amityville Horror, and It. I hope you had a fun Halloween. 🎃
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Ooooh, excellent ones!!! ❤ I did, thank you!
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Wait… is this international? Ha ha. Just boot me out if it isn’t and I win. 😂
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All my giveaways are international 🙂 <3. I hate excluding people based on shipping costs!
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I haven’t read any but I have a lot on my TBR.
I read Furthermore last month and it was great. Not scary but creepy.
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Middle-Grade = nightmare fodder ;).
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Exactly!
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Well, I don’t read scary books often so when it comes to recommendations, I suck.
But I know what’s my favorite: Don’t Forget Me by R.L.Stine. 🙂
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Haha! I’ll take R.L.Stine because I still haven’t read any of his books XD (or is it a woman? O_o)
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It’s a man. I just remember to recommend you movie called Goosbumbs, it’s about him and his characters, it’s like paranormal comedy with Jack Black. I liked it.
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Yes! I remember you were going to re-read the book to see if it was still the same experience as when you were a kid right? I still need to watch the movie :3. Jack Black is awesome!
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Pet Sematary. Was, is, and always will be the scariest story for me. That ending…. I mean, I was either sad, scared, shivering, devastated, horrified, and dead all through the book. That tells you something!
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Oooh, I saw the movie when I was 13 or so and I had to cry so much! And be scared shitless as well of course. That moment the kid get hits by the truck, though…JEEZ!! Excellent suggestion ma petite gaufre ❤
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Yeah, I don’t read scary books, really. I do love me some Neil Gaiman– but I don’t think I’d classify his works as horror. I adore his Sandman graphic novel series, Good Omens, as well as Coraline. There are still so many books for me to read! Do those count?
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Of course those count! The Graveyard Book isn’t really a scary read either, but it’s about a graveyard so it totally counts!
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In that case, I read at least one scary book a year. All Gaiman. 😉
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Haha! I’m going to make you one of my ‘top friends’ on Goodreads now! XD
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I haven’t read many scary books.. at least none that I can think of or could find in my Goodreads list (which is missing a whole lot of books it seems). The Graveyard Book was absolutely spectacular and I still swoon over the audiobook from time to time. Frankenstein was beautiful, though not even remotely scary.. I’d nominate half a dozen of those romance novels I read in May – those were terrifying! But s an actual horror book?… But sure what the heck, I’ll go with The Graveyard Book! 🙂
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I’m listening to the audioversion of it right now and I never want it to stop! Hahaha, there’s no solid definition of scary here. Uniporn definitely counts for me as well
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LOL uniporn.. perfect. And Dinoporn. shivers Terrifying..
(I know I’m missing at least four puns but I haven’t had even one cup of coffee so.. my bad..)
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