6 Books to Scare Students at Halloween

In Talking with Psychopaths and Savages, author and criminologist Christopher Berry Dee takes you deep into the minds of some of the world’s most terrifying psychopaths and notorious serial killers. In the book, Dee interviews subjects and their psychiatrists and discovers some surprising and chilling revelations.

The scariest thing about this book is that you might start recognizing the criminals’ personality traits in people around you, and maybe even in yourself. Read this book if you want to question everything you know about what (and who) psychopaths are.  

If you enjoy this book you may also be interested in reading the author’s other works, including ‘Talking with Serial Killers’.

Subject: Politics

In the Madness of Crowds, Murray explores some of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century: sexuality, gender, technology and race. Murray picks apart the inconsistencies, contradictions and injustices in each of the arguments surrounding these big topics.

But why is this book scary? Murray is outrightly provocative and controversial and will often point out aspects of societal change that are contradictory, despite having a seemingly positive effect. He deliberately says things that people will want to argue against, and that is precisely why this book is worth a read. It will spark political debate and raise some interesting questions about society in the twenty-first century. 

Subject: Biological Sciences

If you’ve ever wondered what people experience when they’re dying, whether there’s any possibility for life after death, if there’s such a thing as a soul or if it’s possible for the conscious mind to exist after death, then this is the book for you. In Mortal Minds, Dr. G.M. Woerlee reveals all the things we didn’t think it was possible to know about the connection between life and death.

One Amazon review says “I recommend this book most highly to anyone searching for answers to these important questions, and that should include most of humanity”.

Mortal Minds will scare you because it’s essentially a book confronting the boundaries between life and death – and what’s scarier than that?

Subject: Geography

We are only just coming to grips with the sheer horror of climate change. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti explores how extreme weather changes are causing humanitarian crises and state failure.

In a nutshell, the book suggests that climate change is making resources that people need and want less available, such as water, oil and land, contributing to war, famine and conflict.

Probably the scariest book of the lot. Of course, this is only if you find the complete destruction of our planet scary. Which you should…

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