HP Lovecraft is how I got into horror short stories, because that's about all I can take at once.

The Secret History is also one of my favorite books of all time! I hardly ever acquire actual copies of books - I work for a library system so it's easy to get pretty much any book I want, and I only own like one shelf-ful of books for easy re-reading, and this is one. I didn't like The Goldfinch and that made me so…

The Mutter Museum is awesome! I made my mom take me there when we happened to be in Philadelphia when I was about 14.

I love Samantha Irby's blog, how did I not know she has a book out?

I may need to try this again. I got about a third of the way in and...well, it's the same problem I'm having with Bring Up The Bodies (sequel to Wolf Hall). I just don't have several hours in a row to sit down and devote to reading. I feel like it could be amazing if I could read that way, so I hope you enjoy it!

I love Jane Eyre, may have to pick up that first one!

As someone who's always had a dread of basements, I beg to differ and hope that one of the other stories met your exacting creepiness requirements :)

Thanks for your reply! That is a fabulous attitude towards respectability (not to mention well-earned egomania in my opinion!).

Thank you for doing this, Mr Stine! You faved a tweet of mine a few months ago and made my day so I was very excited to see you'd be here today.

OMG Look At Me and Bottom of the Stairs are going to give me nightmares. They are all amazingly creepy though.

ily forever.

Clever. I was trying to imagine some way you could get high off eggshells (teenagers!)

Now I am so curious about what the eggshells were for!

I have never heard this before, but by god I am going to remember it (every month or so we get up at six am on my only day off to go to church with my husband's grandma, and the whole family goes to Cracker Barrel after. It is hokey in the extreme and full of people as described in the story [the jerks and…

I keep rereading this and giggling to myself. "I howl all the time and I'm turning yellow."!!!!!,!!!

I feel like I may have heard this before (please grid I don't know multiple people this has happened to) but HOLY FUCK I am glad you are ok.

Worst part is, it must be on some best books list because this was ALWAYS getting checked out of the library I worked at.

OMG WE HAD THAT. It was so weird and I always had a vague feeling as a kid that it was one of those books that is pushing some kind of agenda, but I wasn't sure what. Like it was written by a cult or something. It always creeped me out.

THAT POOR DONKEY IT IS TOO SMALL.

You know Peter Mayle, the "Year In Provence" dude? This is his sex ed book from the 70s.