Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a strange theme connecting several previously reviewed short stories. Today’s feature: Ten Science Fiction Halloween Stories!
In honor of Halloween this coming weekend, I decided to share some of my favorite scary / Halloween-themed science fiction short stories. Now don’t forget, none of these are true horror stories (well, except for one) but I figured that they are creepy enough to qualify as good Halloween stories. So here we go – my list of 10 Science Fiction Halloween Stories:
- Through Thy Bounty by Lucy A. Snyder – mean aliens who love to eat human flesh!
- The Colour Out Of Space by H.P. Lovecraft – New England is blighted by a haunted meteorite!
- The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick – You’re NOT my Dad!
- When Thorns Are the Tips of Trees by Jason Sanford – trees with ghosts in them!
- Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel – Frankenstein is in England bothering the Pride and Prejudice people!
- Memorare by Gene Wolfe – tombs in space!
- The Dead by Michael Swanwick – a zombie workforce!
- Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear – Researcher finds Lovecraftian water monsters!
- It’s a Good Life by Jerome Bixby – a cruel boy gets whatever he wishes for… so don’t make him angry!
- The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury – ancient sea monster makes its yearly trek to try and woo a lighthouse!
If you know of any other science fiction short stories that would make for good Halloween reading then please share with us!
If you liked this article be sure to check out my other posts about Bizarrely Connected Stories.
Subscribe to BestScienceFictionStories.com
Related Articles
No user responded in this post