Here's my list of the top ten literary works to read on (or around) Halloween:

10. "The Lottery" -- Shirley Jackson

9. Nausea -- Jean Paul Sartre

8. "The Shining" -- Stephen King

7. The Metamorphosis -- Franz Kafka

6. "The Masque of the Red Death" -- Edgar Allen Poe

5. "The Second Coming" -- W. B. Yeats

4. Agamemnon -- Aeschylus

3. "The Wasteland" -- T. S. Eliot

2. Inferno -- Dante Alighieri

1. Macbeth -- William Shakespeare

Feel free to dispute these picks, or point out the various worthy works I must have overlooked or otherwise excluded.

Happy Halloween to all.