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I'm your host, Danica Ellis, and today I'm talking about horror books you can read from cover to cover on Halloween night.

So I just finished my favorite day of the year, my favorite holiday, which is Dewey's 24-hour

readathon.

I'm sure I've talked about it many times on the podcast, but this is a readathon that started, I want to say like 15 years ago.

I have been doing it twice a year, every year for the past decade. And I love it so much.

When I started, I did it solo and I would read and then cheer people on on social media,

which was fun. But over the years, I have

roped in more people. So most of the time, me and my roommate do it together. This year,

his girlfriend joined us. We have another friend who joins us most of the time. And this year,

another person swung by for about five hours, and it is delightful.

It is a cozy day of snacks and reading, and I look forward to it all year.

It happens in April and October, and October is my favorite, because that's when I read on a theme. That's when I'm reading

usually horror books, Halloween-adjacent books. And because I'm me, generally those are

queer horror books. It's so much fun to deep dive on a genre for a day. And just to be clear, 24-hour rate-a-thon,

doesn't mean you have to have your eyes on the page for 24-hour straight. It's just reading as

much as you can in a 24-hour time span. So I didn't stay at the full 24-hour hours, but it's a

celebration of books. It's reading as much as you can.

And even though the Dewey's Day has passed for October, I highly recommend doing a Halloween-themed

readathon. If you were at all interested or even curious about horror, there's something about reading horror

books when you're a little bit sleep deprived that is peak. It is an experience. And that's why

today I'm going to recommend you some books you can read from cover to cover, some novellas,

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