Since I love to read I figured would post a little of what I am currently reading/ recently read and list some favs as well. Many of the fiction works I read tend to have vampires, werewolves, ghosts and such in them so seem fitting for this time of year.

Most of the fiction novels fall into the romance category but not all. Some have some spook to them and some are just funny that happen to have Ghoulish characters.

Just last night I finished reading Derik's Bane but Mary Janice Davidson. Hers are always full of humor and the characters tend to banter their way through the books. This one has a reincarnation of Morgan LeFay and a werewolf as the main characters that team up to save the world. It is a quick read and has plenty of ha-has. It wont make you want to sleep with the lights on but it is entertaining.

I am also most of the way through with I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Now his books tend to be more on the spooky/thriller side. This one is a vampire book and is told from the view point of the last man alive that is has not become a vamp yet. ( at least little more than half way he is still alone...wont know if that remains the case til I hit the end) This one supposedly was made into a movie but I have not seen it. I have read other books of his that have been made into movies...I liked the movies too but loved the books. They are: Bid Time Return/movie is Somewhere in Time, Stir of Echos and What Dreams May Come.

Lets see some favs that are in the spirit of Halloween...

The classics always work. Brahm Stokers Dracula is one I have read a couple times. If you have never read it and like old vamp movies it is well worth picking up.

Pretty much anything by Steven King or John Saul would work. I have read many by both and they tend to be full of spook or at least some thrilling suspense. There is also Anne Rice with her vampire series and her witch series. While they made a few of the vamp novels into movies I still liked the witch trilogy the best of hers.

On the not so scary side there is the series by Laurell K Hamilton. Her main character Anita Blake is a zombie raising, vampire slayer and has a series with more than a dozen books.

Kelly Armstrong has a series with werewolves, witches and vampires. Most of the characters pop up in other of her books.

On the romance side ( though some are not so romance filled) there is the J R Ward series with her bad boy vampires that protect the humans from the evil vamp slayer. An interesting twist to make the vamp tales new.

Robin T Popp has an ongoing series with gargoyle/vampires that I have read and Maggie Shayne has a vamp series that is good.

There are many more that I have read or plan to read but this is getting a bit long winded now. So will leave it here and ask what books have you read or are reading that fit in the spirit of Halloween??