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Radio 2,28 Oct 2025,20 mins

Halloween Special

The Radio 2 Book Club

Available for over a year

Whether you're into the Halloween thing or not - we thought it was as good a time as any to celebrate some spooky, scary, dark, ghostly, chilling books which have recently come out - and - get some cracking recommendations. Sara has invited six brilliant authors - who write in the horror genre - to tell us about their latest novels and their favourite scary book. LISTEN IF YOU DARE MWAAAHAHAHA* (*they're all very nice really) Here are our featured authors - and - the books discussed: Gemma Amor - 'Itch' Daphne Du Maurier - 'The Birds And Other Stories' Tobi Coventry - 'He's The Devil' Algernon Blackwood - 'The Willows" Bora Chung - 'The Midnight Timetable' Stephen King - 'Thinner' Andrew Michael Hurley - 'Saltwash' Mariana Enriquez - 'Things We Lost In The Fire' Oyinkan Braithwaite - 'Cursed Daughters' Vikram Paralkar - 'Night Theatre' Thomas Olde Heuvelt - 'Darker Days' Stephen King - "Pet Sematary'

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