👻🎃 Halloween Read-A-Thon: Announcement & Details!!! 🎃👻

Even though Australia hasn’t fully embraced Halloween it’s my favourite holiday ever. I start celebrating in September, tbh. I love absolutely everything about it. Horror is my favourite genre, but I know most people like waiting until Halloween to start reading “scary” books. I figured since this is my first Halloween in ages that I’m actually reading again and because I’m blogging that I’d make a Halloween Read-A-Thon. I searched Google, YouTube and Twitter to make sure I wasn’t stealing someone else’s feature and I couldn’t find anything. If I missed something I’m really sorry!! Can you really have too many Halloween themed things anyway?

💀 The read-a-thon is going to run from the 10th October – 31st October. This was decided by an extremely scientific Twitter poll.

💀 You can join in at any time until the end of the read-a-thon. 

💀 You can read as many or as little books as you want!!!

💀 The books HAVE to be horror, thriller and/or have some kind of supernatural element!! Except for one challenge, but more on that below. I’m sorry if these genres aren’t your cup of tea, but it wouldn’t really be a Halloween themed read-a-thon otherwise.

💀 When posting your TBR link back to this post so other people can join in!! Share the spooky love!! If you don’t have a blog that’s okay!! You can post your TBR on Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, YouTube – ANYWHERE!!

💀 Use the hashtag #HalloweenWR to share your progress on social media!!

To participate in the read-a-thon you don’t have to complete the challenges! This read-a-thon is just all about reading spooky books! Personally, when I’m participating in read-a-thons I just like having something base my TBR around. Also, once again, thanks to an extremely scientific Twitter poll where people said they prefer challenges in read-a-thons I decided to include these. This is my first time trying to think of challenges and I’m not the best so bear with me.

💀 You’re able to use the same book for multiple challenges.

💀 Feel free to make any changes you want because I want to keep this read-a-thon as chill as possible!

💀 You’re welcome to use the banners I made for your own TBR posts if you’d like!

🕸 Pretty self explanatory. There’s no “guidelines” if you think a cover is creepy for whatever reason then it counts!

🕸 By Supernatural or Paranormal I mean books that feature things such as: ghosts, vampires, witches, werewolves ect.

🕸 Example: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

🕸 In my opinion people are scarier than monsters so for Horror or Thriller this means a book where real people are the ones who are causing all the scariness.

🕸 Example: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

🕸 Again, pretty self explanatory. Fun fact: the witching hour is 3am-4am, but obviously I’m not going to force you all to read at that time 😅. Unless you’re like me and have insomnia. So just read a book after the sun has set! This doesn’t have to be done in one night! You can read a book at night for the duration of the read-a-thon.

🕸 There’s two options for this challenge. You can choose TRICK and read a scary book you’ve been putting off OR you can choose TREAT and read any book you want from ANY genre (not just horrors ect.)

🕸 Read six books! Your sixth book can be any scary book you want. Only do this if you want! I know how it is to feel intimidated by read-a-thons so I really wanted to try and make this as relaxing as possible. There’s probably no way I’m going to be able to do this, but it’s fun to try!

🕸 Link back to this post when you post your TBR and I’ll add your name!

👻 Lottie @ Novellique	👻 Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales	👻 Kai @ Black Cat Kai
👻 E.C. @ YA Book Blog	👻 Sam @ One Bookish Girl	👻 Puput @ Sparkling Letters
👻 Megan @ Book Slayer Reads	👻 Sam @ Bean’s Bookshelf and Coffee Break	👻 Anushka @ Living in Pages
👻 Maggie @ The Novel Orange	👻 Anja @ The Very Bookish Me	👻 Sam @ Sam’s Little Corner
👻 La La @ La La in the Library	👻 Sara @ Freadom Library	👻 Manda @ CrescentBolt
👻 Lindsey @ Lindsey Reads	👻 Esther @ Chapter Adventures	👻 Georgie @ Good Book Vibes
👻 Sjoukje @ kouk84	👻 Janel @ Keeper of Pages	👻 Jess @ Beaucoupbooks
👻 Lauren @ Wonderless Reviews	👻 Casey @ adoptabookaus	👻 Arnis @ Poseidons99
👻 Kourtni @ Kourtni Reads	👻 Ash @ Once Upon A Bookshelf	👻 Caitlin @ Words and Other Beasts
👻 Lii @ Girl Hearts Book	👻 Sarah @ Fiction in Reality	👻 Emma @ After Butterfly Rain
👻 Uma Shankari @ Books Bags Burgers	👻 Samantha @ My Book Sense	👻 Ella @ The Story Collector
👻 Elle @ Perusing Pages	👻 Becca @ The Bookkeeper’s Apprentice	👻 Katylyn @ The Bohemian Bookworm
👻 Yasaman @ Following Muses	👻 Chantal @ Disappear Into Books	👻 Lizzy @ The Bent Bookworm
👻 Jade @ Drink Coffee and Read Books	👻 Joann @ The Best Basic Blogger

 Will you be joining in?

Do you have any spooky reads planned? My TBR will be up soon.

I hope you’re all having a fantastic day xx