[academiaa-a]

When Margaret Atwood said, "there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it." and then Franz Kafka wrote, "And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid."

[lifemaniac91]

[toomuchhorrorfiction]

Shirley Jackson born 12.14.1916

[sleepnoises]

okay you know that scan/photo of a teen girl’s diary entry that goes like “wore yellow dress today. chris keeps trying to talk to me even though he KNOWS i’m not interested! ugh! man landed on moon.” anyway that’s the mood

[skinhorses]

[sleepnoises]

THIS person is valid, as is their grandmother

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Today Minecraft Steve was added to Smash! I DM’d my first D&D game and it was lots of fun. So excited for October and really getting into the Halloween mood! Trump has covid.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

🎃 50 Halloween Reads 🎃

It’s the most wonderful time of the year - the leaves are turning, there are pumpkins for carving and the ghosts are coming out to play!

Halloween is just around the corner so I thought it was time for a new recommendations post. It’s the perfect time of year for reading about ghosts, witches, vampires or for just getting into an atmospheric book full of twists and turns. So here’s a list of classics, YA, short stories and general fiction to help you get into that spooky mood.

Happy Halloween everybody! 👻

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black *

Anna Dressed in Blood duology by Kendare Blake *

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright & David Leslie Johnson

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 

Hearts and Other Body Parts by Ira Bloom 

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle 

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman *

Coraline by Neil Gaiman *

The Chronicles of Alice duology by Christina Henry *

Lost Boy by Christina Henry *

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Mara Dyer trilogy by Michelle Hodkin *

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 

Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder *

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving *

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson *

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 

The Immortal Rules series by Julie Kagawa *

Carrie by Stephen King *

The Shining by Stephen King

IT by Stephen King

The Green Mile by Stephen King *

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie 

Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalco 

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion 

How To Hang A Witch by Adriana Mather 

There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins *

Dreamfall by Amy Plum 

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe *

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe *

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs *

Jackaby series by William Ritter 

The Asylum series by Madeleine Roux *

The House of Furies duology by Madeleine Roux

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley *

The Night World series by LJ Smith * 

Thornhill by Pamela Smy

Toil and Trouble, edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharpe

When My Heart Was Wicked by Tricia Stirling *

Dracula by Bram Stoker *

This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, edited by April Genevieve Tucholke

Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke *

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

The Monstrumologist series by Rick Yancey

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

More of my recommendations

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

It’s the most frightening time of the year!

I’ve never updated this list so let’s see what spooky reads I’ve got tucked away in my shelves. They’re not all in the horror genre but they all have elements of spook or magic that suits this time of year perfectly :)

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta

Ida by Alison Evans

Highway Bodies by Alison Evans

Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans

Freeks by Amanda Hocking

The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker by Lauren James

Black Bird of the Gallows duology by Meg Kassel

Riders of the Apocalypse series by Jackie Morse Kessler

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire

The Near Witch by VE Schwab

This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea duology by April Genevieve Tucholke

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

feel free to add your own recs in the notes or in reblogs ^.^ Happy Halloween everybody!

[listentothestories]

Emily Winfield Martin

[bpdshan]

sometimes I get spooked by the fact I’m a woman and not a girl...does that make sense

[slfcare]

there are good things left. there are good things coming. there are good things waiting for you. whoever you are, wherever you are, however you are, it can and it will get better.

[empathysuggestion]

there is a light at the end of whatever darkness you are facing and it is warm and embracing and as nurturing as the sun

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‪Baby yoda doing his little toddley waddle. ‬

He has very important business to attend to. Places to go, people to see.

[bbbbbbvf]

Harry arrived early in the Room of Requirement for the last D.A. meeting before the holidays and was very glad he had, because when the lamps burst into light he saw that Dobby had taken it upon himself to decorate the place for Christmas. He could tell the elf had done it, because nobody else would have strung a hundred golden baubles from the ceiling, each showing a picture of Harry’s face and bearing the legend HAVE A VERY HARRY CHRISTMAS!

[doortotomorrow]

“Seen my dad, have you?”

[talesfromthecrypts]

You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas

[winterswake]

💚🚼 Baby Yoda in THE MANDALORIAN ‘Sanctuary’ 💚🚼

[thedramaandart]

Sometimes I think about those high res Jupiter pics and then think about Van Gogh and get emotional because it’s like this one, lonely man that didn’t experience an ounce of fame or recognition in his life time had the image of the universe in his head and he didn’t know it.

[thedramaandart]

Jupiter and Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

[lotusohm]

Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House was published sixty years ago today. The novel begins with one of the best openings I have ever read:

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”