Happy Tuesday everybody! We’re finally in the throes of fall and on the cusp of Halloween! I’m so excited!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is Halloween Freebie, so I’ve decided to do a bit of a monster mashup. A Creature Feature if you will – of an assortment of different Halloween and horror monsters.

All right, here we go!

👻 Ghosts 👻

I liked this book, and I liked its take on ghosts. Sheets is probably one of the cutest ghost stories I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. (I was actually gonna have The Ghostkeeper here for this one, but then I remembered that I’d just read Sheets, so I went with it ’cause I just used the former on a list yesterday.)

🐺 Werewolves 🐺

What’s a creature feature without werewolves? Now, shiver isn’t my favorite werewolf story (I don’t even know if I really have one), nor is it Maggie Stiefvater’s best, but it’s the first one I thought of.

🦇 Vampires 🦇

Speaking of stuff that isn’t my favorite in the genre – yeah, I don’t think that Twilight is a good vampire story. I also don’t think it’s a good story in general, but whatever. It is, unfortunately, likely the most popular modern vampire story, and as the ones that I prefer are either more obscure and from the ’00s, I picked this one.

🧹 Witches 🧹

I think that there are probably better witch books too (aren’t I on a roll here, lol), but I definitely think that this is one of the better ones that I’ve read that isn’t middle grade. I also think I gave it four stars when I originally read it, so there’s that.

🔥 Demons 🔥

I’ve been trying to pick books I’ve read more recently for this list if I can, and unfortunately, this is the most recent book featuring demons that I’ve read.

🧟 Zombies 🧟

I was originally thinking of putting What Moves the Dead here, but I used it on my Fall Recs yesterday. So I picked the only other zombie book I’ve read.

✨ Faeries ✨

I like books with faeries. But I especially like books that portray them properly. Not the world of hot guys and ridiculously sized… Eggplants… That Sarah J. Maas has popularized.

🐙 Deep Sea Eldritch Horror 🐙

I don’t know what to say here, honestly. This has giant horrific sea monsters and disturbing transformations. Very eldritch horror stuff going on.

🐎 Kelpies 🐎

And Stiefvater makes the list a second time! But then, she did write a book featuring a more obscure monster that I’d love to see more of. (And it’s a much better book than Shiver.) I love The Scorpio Races.

💀 Skeletons 💀

Gotta get that Spooky Scary Skeleton rep in here! I think living skeletons/walking-talking skeletons are underrated. I’d see them in a few things growing up, but they just weren’t nearly as popular as all the other monsters. And I haven’t read the Skullduggery Pleasant books, so I was having trouble figuring out a way to get them on this list. But then I remembered that I’ve been reading One Piece and one of the protagonists is a skeleton, and he’s absolutely fantastic (I love Brook), so I went with One Piece.

What books have you been reading lately? Have any of them been spooky or Halloween themed? What monsters or creatures have they featured? What are your favorite types of books with supernatural creatures?

As always, thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a awesome day/night!

See ya ~Mar