“It was a dark and stormy night…” Well, it’s been a while since we’ve had any rain in Las Vegas, so let’s make this a little more realistic; “It was a hot and dry desert evening, and I wanted to read a terrifying ghost story.”
Each of the CSN Campus Libraries has a display for Spooky Season, where we are sure that you’ll find something to horrify you, inspire you to build a perfect costume or give you some more information about your favorite holiday.
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Here are a few eBooks that are on the CSN Library website that I can read online without having to leave the comfort and safety of my bed while I hide under the covers:
Title: The Other
Author: Thomas Tryon and Dan Chaon
Location: ProQuest eBooks
Details: A landmark psychological horror novel about 13-year-old twins living in a bucolic New England town—one good and the other very, very evil.
Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Washington Irving
Location: Project Gutenberg
Details: This is a downloadable audiobook version. This classic short story is from the early 19th century, specifically during the Romantic era. This tale is a blend of folklore and ghost story that takes place in the mythical village of Sleepy Hollow, where supernatural occurrences and local legends intertwine within a vividly described rural setting.
Title: The Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James
Location: Project Gutenberg
Details: This gothic novella was written during the late 19th century. The story revolves around a young governess tasked with looking after two orphaned children at a remote English estate known as Bly, where strange and unsettling occurrences unfold, raising questions about both the environment and the children themselves.
Title: Mexican Gothic
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Location: EBSCO
Details: An isolated mansion, a chillingly charismatic aristocrat, and a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find—her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.
Title: Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night
Author: Nicholas Rogers
Location: EBSCO
Details: Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian rituals, Halloween has evolved from an ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year.
Title: Why Horror Seduces
Author: Mathias Clasen
Location: Oxford Scholarship Online
Details: Are you interested in learning why people enjoy scary movies so much? This book explains the appeals and functions of horror entertainment by drawing on cutting-edge findings in the evolutionary social sciences, showing how the horror genre is a product of human nature. The central claim of the book is that horror entertainment works by targeting ancient and deeply conserved neurobiological mechanisms.