Monster Medley
Coraline scared the shit out of everyone I gave it to (adults or near adults). Neil Gaiman has this to say about that:
As a general rule, Coraline the book is much creepier for adults than it is for kids, who tend to read it as an adventure. I suspect that this will be true of the film as well.
Perhaps the terror adults feel reading this novel turns in part on the twisted fulfillment of our childhood wishes:
“We’re here,” said her other mother, in a voice so close to her real mother’s that Coraline could scarcely tell them apart. “We’re here. We’re ready to love you and play with you and feed you and make your life interesting.”
Our fear grows in proportion to the intensity of our need for parents “ready to love you and play with you and feed you and make your life interesting.”
Check out Gaiman’s blog.
Geek Love is one of those books that should be Oprah book club famous but isn’t. Still, it is a favorite of many readers. Read it for cluttery sentences that always surprise like this line:
Their bodies lifted up, clean and simple to her in the clear, unconscious awareness of each of their cell’s sensing that she would grunt out strong young.
Never the Bride is Miss Marple meets Frankenstein with the emphasis on the Miss Marple end of the equation. Cozy in a creepy kind of way and enormously funny throughout. 
Sometimes I’m not in the mood for books like this (who wants to be so uptight they sit stone-faced through a Terry Pratchett novel, for example) so I always read them when I’m in a more relaxed state. Huge fun.
