It’s my favorite time of year – Fall is here and Halloween is only days away. And one thing I love to do is curl up on the couch with a good book, especially one that’s a little eerie and spooky.

So, here below are my picks of 2013 books to read for All Hallow’s Read this Fall, which include titles from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Kim Harrison, as well as H.P. Lovecraft, Frankenstein, and Dark Shadows stories, and more!

All Hallow’s Read: Halloween 2013 Reading Recommendations…

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series Deluxe Edition DVD box set for only $269.99 (that’s 55% off the list price of $599.98).

This massive 131-disc DVD box set contains all 1,225 episodes of the 1960’s television series Dark Shadows and a deluxe booklet housed in a red-lined black coffin case. The set also contains bonus features like behind-the-scenes features, cast and crew interviews, and bloopers.

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Wednesday, October 16, 2013, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

Each and every week, I, “Run to the hills” Henchman21, and “Run for your life” Empress Eve read a lot of comics. Seriously you guys, a lot of comics. Maybe too many comics. I mean, it is possible… theoretically. Naturally, we look forward to some more than others. I mean, who doesn’t? So, let’s take a look into the depths of our pull lists, grab some comics, and we’ll let YOU know what the top books to look forward to are for the week of April 17, 2013. Single issues and trades, they’re all here.

Let’s see, what do we have for you this week? We’ve got robots and teen heroes and vampires and so much more. And I ran out of time, but you had better plan on buying He-Man and the Masters of the Universe from DC Comics, because it’s going to be awesome and also because Battle Cat. So don’t forget to buy it and all the other great comics on this week’s GoD List!

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series Deluxe Edition DVD box set for only $279.99 (that’s 53% off the list price of $599.98).

This massive 131-disc DVD box set contains all 1,225 episodes of the 1960’s television series Dark Shadows and a deluxe booklet housed in a red-lined black coffin case. The set also contains bonus features like behind-the-scenes features, cast and crew interviews, and bloopers.

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Tuesday, October 16, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

Digital comic distributor ComiXology is now running a half-off sale on Dynamite’s Dark Shadows comic book series. The sale is running now through 11pm EST on Sunday, May 13, with Dark Shadows #1-5 for only 99 cents each; if you want the Volume 1 trade, that’s only $3.99.

The sale also includes The Complete Dracula 1-5 for 99 cents each (trade collection is $4.99) and The Darkness vs. Eva: Daughter of Dracula 1-4 for 99 cents each.

Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don’t always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we’ve resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies.

Today sees the release of Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, therefore, honor of this event, we’re dedicating this edition of Doom Digest to all things Dark Shadows.

Dark Shadows
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: Seth Grahame-Smith
Starring: Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Bella Heathcote, Christopher Lee and Alice Cooper
Distributed By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rated: PG-13
Release Date: May 11, 2012

“His name was Barnabas Collins, and he was the finest man this family ever knew.”

With its unique blend of gothic intrigue, romance, and melodrama, Dark Shadows staked the soap opera status quo in the heart in the late 1960s. The series, which ran from 1966-1971, was unprecedented in daytime television for its supernatural stories filled with vampires, ghosts, witches, werewolves, and the occasional zombie or warlock. My mother would race home from high school to watch Dark Shadows, hypnotized into submission by Barnabus Collins (Jonathan Frid), 18th-century vampire and master of Collinwood Manor. With its blood-and-thunder performances and atmospheric interiors, Dark Shadows became a pop culture phenomena with 1,225 television episodes and numerous films, novels, comics, and audio dramas dedicated to the Collins family.

For those dying to revisit the creaky, cobwebbed halls of Collinwood Manor, director Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) has resurrected Dark Shadows as a 113-minute gothic comedy, written by New York Times best-selling novelist Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter).

Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don’t always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we’ve resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies.

Today: The Avengers rocks, new Dark Shadows featurette, Johnny Depp interview, WETA is releasing a new Lord Of The Rings statue, and the girls of the James Bond film franchise, plus some Bits Of Doom.

Dark Shadows #5
Written by Mike Raicht
Art by Guiu Vilanova
Colors by Carlos Lopez
Letters by Troy Peteri
Cover by Francseco Francavilla
Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Cover Price: $3.99

Dark Shadows #5 is very entertaining. In a lot of ways. You can take it seriously or not, but either way you’re going to enjoy it. It seems that main character Barnabas Collins doesn’t really WANT to be a vampire, which is interesting. I’m not an expert on vampires, but usually once people turn into them, they really seem to enjoy it.

Series writer Mike Raicht turns out a interesting story for this issue. While it’s fun for us, the reader, it’s no fun for any of the characters involved. There are a lot of what some people would call “soap opera” elements to comic story telling, but this title is a STRAIGHT-OUT soap opera, just with horror theme to it. It’s really nice to read a comic once in a while where there are NO super powers, no fights or super weapons, just good, solid drama and that’s what this comic is. Sure, there’s a vampire element to it, but Raicht really gets the reader invested in Barnabas Collins the MAN, not Barnabas Collins the VAMPIRE.

Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don’t always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we’ve resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies.

Today: Promo for a would-be 1978 Avengers made-for-TV movie, a new Chooseomatic book Thrusts of Justice, a superhero montage, a 3-minute “Vampire” featurette for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, and a Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) poster, plus some Bits Of Doom.