🥀🔪 SPOOKY BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2022 👻🏚️
hi guys. I really like books right now. have you heard about books? I’d like to talk to you about some spooky books
Horror but like LIGHT not too much
Bound Feet - **initially forgot this gem !!** a novella where two women break into a Chinese Garden and Ghost Museum at night !!
Our Wives Under the Sea - this is very literary light on the horror, about a woman’s wife coming back wrong from a Marianas Trench investigation
Weird Horror #3 and #4 - I love this magazine. it has the exact kind of horror story I like, more interested in intriguing you than disturbing you. I’ve only read 3 and 4 so far but I’m sure they’re all good.
Goddess of Filth - this is an unique possession tale. A group of Mexican American girls hold a seance that allows a goddess to possess one of them, but their real enemy… CATHOLICISM
My Heart is a Chainsaw - it’s Stephen Graham Jones. you cannot go wrong with SGJ, but this is the most for tumblr of his works. Jade is a very traumatized teen who loves horror movies and life becomes one
Come Closer - this is Possession Horror at its finest, told from the perspective of the woman being possessed
The Carrow Haunt - a group of paranormal enthusiasts all stay at a haunted house ! somehow gives warm hug found family coffee shop vibes even while bodies are dropping.
You Should Have Left - apparently now a movie with Kevin Bacon. haven’t seen it, but enjoy this book for the style and execution. screenwriter on a vacation in a house that should have never been built where it has been built…
What Moves the Dead - a retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher with a nb protagonist, very gothic without being too scary
A Head Full of Ghosts - a possession story where a family welcomes a reality tv crew into their home to film their possessed daughter
A Dowry of Blood - give it up for a book entirely about Dracula’s polycule aka his wives and husband. horror in the sense of domestic abuse.
Hide and Seeker - I will add a middle grade horror book bc I want to support the kids getting their horror. this one gives creepy rhymes and child abduction
Catherine House - so you want DARK dark academia? look no further. this is nihilistic and brimming with dread. not for lovers of plot
BUNNY - Welcome to the Smut Salon. is this horror? you decide. the first third of this book is incredible and the rest of it . I have no idea
The Atlas Six - this is if you want dark academic magic grad school. I can’t decide if this is a Recommendation exactly, but I was entertained the whole time
Hot weather halloween-y tales (for those of you in warm climates who still want to get spooky)
The Ballad of Perilous Graves - urban fantasy sent in New Orleans where music is magic, you got paintbodies (ppl getting high on graffiti), cemeteries, haints, sky trolleys, children tasked with finding the nine magic songs that keep Nola alive, and a trans man POV character going through it. it gives kids halloween.
okay so I recently read The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, perfect if you want gothic jungle drama scifi and can handle some heterosexual nonsense. I loved the cenote and the hybrids, but I still think the best book from this author is yes Mexican Gothic
HORROR horror like. horror
Tell Me I’m Worthless - the haunted house IS fascism in the UK. the protagonists are a trans woman and a terf. showstopping. incredible. I enjoyed the whole thing. SO many trigger warnings.
The Silent Companions - historical fiction where wooden cutout props of people are pretty scary, this book somehow managed to accomplish jump scares
Your Body is Not Your Body - an anthology of weird body horror, proceeds go to trans youth in Texas. very literary and bite-sized.
We Are Here To Hurt Each Other - if you’re excited for new Hellraiser, and like gooey and gory, give this collection a try.
Helpmeet - returning to an abandoned orchard in 1900s New York might make you think oh a simple gothic tale? No. Nothing will prepare you
The Last House on Needless Street - it’s best to go into this book knowing nothing. all I can say is it is a truly wild time
HOT OFF THE PRESS aka new books I can’t wait to get my paws on
House of Hunger - we’ve got gothic manor house we’ve got blood maids look at that cover I also hear it’s maybe lesbionic ?
Leech - gothic science fiction, something weird and queer happening in an isolated chateau. say no more.
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