Episode 550 || Annie Recommends: Spooky Reads

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Arts:books, Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s an episode of Annie Recommends! In this series, Annie curates a stack of books in a certain genre or theme for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. This month, Annie recommends a short list of her favorite spooky reads. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 550) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza Strangers in the Car by C.M. Ewan (releases 11/4) Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark (releases in paperback 10/14) Your Favorite Scary Movie by Ashley Cullins Fox by Joyce Carol Oates Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Discover Thomasville. Gracefully tucked within the storied Red Hills of South Georgia, Thomasville curates a distinguished Downtown experience that meanders along several blocks of our iconic red brick streets. Here, bespoke boutiques, master craftsmen, coveted antique art purveyors, and celebrated culinary artisans converge in harmony with the cultural richness of the Pebble Hill Plantation art tour and the tranquil allure of Birdsong Nature Center. Here, you Discover the Soul of the South. Here, you Discover Thomasville. Learn more by visiting thomasvillega.com/news. From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is listening to The Running Man by Stephen King. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:30.9	Welcome. Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:39.5	To condition others to like you, that is the challenge of any human encounter.
0:44.0	Joyce Carol Oates, Fox I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:50.6	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recommending some of my favorite spooky books
0:55.1	as you make your TBR for spooky reading season. Do you love listening to From the Front Porch every week?
1:01.8	You can spread the word by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. All you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone,
1:08.7	look for From the Front Por porch, scroll down until you
1:11.9	see write a review, then tell us what you think. Here's a recent review. Feels like a warm hug.
1:20.1	I love this podcast so much. Every time I listen to an episode, I end up with a smile,
1:25.1	and I feel like so much stress has melted away. I don't know if it's the
1:28.6	charming Southern hospitality seeping through, but it just feels like a warm hug. It should come
1:33.8	with a warning about how much more you'll spend on books, though. Listen, that's our job.
1:38.9	We have to do that. My library hold list has doubled, and visits to my local indie bookstore has become a weekly habit.
1:47.7	This thrills me because one of, I hope, the unspoken, perhaps spoken, but one of the unspoken missions or purposes of from the front porch is to help you fall in love with your indie bookstore.
2:02.7	And if you don't have one, we hope we become yours.
2:06.3	We really do.
2:07.2	There are a lot of places in this country that don't have indie bookstores.
2:10.2	And so if you don't have one, we hope that the bookshelf feels like yours.
2:13.9	But if you do have one, we hope that we've inspired you to visit, to buy books when you can, to support your local library instead when you can't.
2:23.0	And so this just makes me really happy.
2:25.6	Thanks for visiting your local indie wherever you live.
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