For October's book club, we will be discussing The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. It is a short book and also YA, so some people had the idea to add another bonus spooky short story fro the month of October as well. It's not required but, if you're interested, feel free to also read Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft.
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The description for The Graveyard book reads:
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.
But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.
A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.
The Call of Cthulu is a classic short story that was published in 1928. It has been adapted as a film, a roleplaying agme and even a video game. It is a foundational work of cosmic horror where the narrator pieces together information about the monstrous cosmic entity Cthulhu and the cults that worship it.
