The Orange Eats Creeps
The Orange Eats Creeps is that magnificent kind of spooky book that takes an archetypal story and monster and turns it on its head to make something new and even scarier
Women Authors
Most old books are written by men. These books were written by women.
Horror Stories Double Feature
It’s a double feature! Make Sure You’re Around After You’ve Gone, which is a collection of ghost stories, and Through the Night Like a Snake, which is a collection of horror stories specifically from Latin America.
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Is there anything more Halloween than a good gothic narrative? Well, maybe, but gothic is definitely a staple at our house.
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
Spooky Season is Here at Last October is finally here and I have a whole bunch of spooky books saved up just for the occasion. I’m excited to start bringing out the holiday content and diving into it. However, this year with the amount of things we have packed into the month, I can admit […]
Jane & The Red Parts
It gives life to this rather harrowing story of random and brutal violence, bringing humanity to what often just becomes statistics of cruelty.
Unusual Fragments
I’m including Unusual Fragments as a spooky selection because all of these stories share some aspect of the unusual and arguably supernatural — or at least just plain eerily weird.
The Infamous Gilberts
I love a haunted house story, and though this isn’t a novel about actual ghosts (for the most part), it is a story about how human lives haunt the places they played out in.
My Men
My Men follows the life of Brynhild Storset who emigrates form Norway to the United States and eventually becomes Belle Gunness, arguably the first serial killer in American history.
Paradise Rot
What follows is a fever dream of decay and the juxtaposition of awakening and discovering blurred boundaries between individuals, bodies, sexuality, and plant life.
Lives of the Saints
If you think of the themes of a novel like a complex spiderweb, most of the time an overzealous use of repetition is akin to the author shoving the reader into the centre of it.