YA Indie Carnival | Chills & Thrills…

 

I’m back!  I apologize for my absence from the Carnival last week.  Due to flying a red-eye back from LA in the wee, small hours of the morning, I spent Friday bonding with my pillow.  But I’m back this week, and just in time for Halloween!  Soooo…

 

This week’s main event is:

Best Indie Chills ‘n Thrills

 

Now I don’t read very many books that would be considered pure horror.  I am… and this is just between me and you… I am and always have been a gigantic wuss.  I don’t do scary movies.  Halloween haunted hay ride commercials send me diving into the couch cushions for the remote.  I spent a sleepover with my face buried in a pillow when everyone decided to watch The Exorcist… when I was in college.  Yeah.

 

I mean, it’s funny right?  Given that I love the paranormal genre so much… but I just don’t do straight-up horror.  So, this week I’m supposed to share some creepy Indie reads with ya’ll… horror… not so much, but creepy I can do.

 

 

My first book is by the fabulous M. Leighton.  It was the first book I ever read of hers and is still my favorite: reapers, Derek, bartering of souls, Derek, deliciously dark dreamscapes, and did I mention Derek? The sequel is coming out in like… a week!!!  So check it out!

 

 

 The next book does verge more on horror.  A ghostly train, its soul-stealing conductor and a possessed radio that gives dire predictions of the future is enough to warrant not wanting to turn off the light when going to bed.  Not that I did that…

 

 

And this last book is not an Indie, but is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read, so I thought it deserved inclusion.  Something’s not right in the town of Gentry where the inhabitants have a peculiar attachment to all things iron.  Changlelings and a vividly depicted, Tim Burton-esque underground world made this book a very creepy read.

 

What are your favorite Halloween reads?

 

 

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Link list:

1.	Laura A. H. Elliott author of Winnemucca & 13 on Halloween, Book 1 in the Teen Halloween Series	2.	Bryna Butler, author Midnight Guardian series
3.	Heather Self	4.	T. R. Graves, Author of The Warrior Series
5.	Suzy Turner, author of The Raven Saga	6.	Darby Karchut, author of GRIFFIN RISING
7.	Lexus Luke	8.	PJ Hoover, Author of SOLSTICE, Blogging at ROOTS IN MYTH
9.	Cheri Schmidt, author of the Fateful Trilogy	10.	Rachel Coles, author of Into The Ruins, geek mom blog
11.	K. C. Blake, author of Vampires Rule and Crushed	12.	Patti Larsen, The Hunted series and The Hayle Coven series
13.	Courtney Cole, author of The Bloodstone Saga	14.	Amy Maurer Jones, Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy
15.	Dani Snell’s Refracted Light Reviews	16.	Fisher Amelie, author of The Understorey
17.	M. Leighton, Blood Like Poison Series, Madly, The Reaping	18.	Abbi Glines, author of Breathe and The Vincent Boys
19.	Kimberly Kinrade, Bits of You & Pieces of Me, Forbidden Mind	20.	Madeline Smoot, Missing, Summer Shorts, and The Girls
21.	Cidney Swanson, author of Rippler	22.	Nicole Williams, author of Eternal Eden, Falling Eden
23.	Gwenn Wright, author of Filter	24.	Abbi Glines: Breathe, The Vincent Boys, Existence
25.	Be Afraid!