Tag: horror fiction

• Creepy Book Recs

  At last, my final book recs list for Spooktober 2025. This one is all about the creepy, the eerie, the horrifying, and the unsettling. Making these lists has been so much fun, but I can’t lie – I will be happy to go back to my four posts a week schedule in November. I have…

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  October 26, 2025

  Discussion Posts, Horror

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• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – A Creepy Horror Must-Read

  I spotted this quite by chance, but given the spooky season is upon us, I added it to my library requests and got my hands on it yesterday. Then I read it in a few hours. Jason Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures is the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween. With the creepy pictures, strange…

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  October 25, 2025

  Crime Fiction, Horror

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• The Dark and Sinister Tale of Dot Hutchison’s The Butterfly Garden

  I requested The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison thanks to one of my trusted Bookstagram readers, and given the number of novels I had to read in a short time, I gave it to my mum to read first. She zoomed through it. I just finished it, and even being under the weather couldn’t prevent…

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  October 8, 2025

  Crime Fiction, Horror

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• An Intense Horror Thriller in Noelle W. Ihli’s The Thicket

  How can you get into the spooky reading spirit? Well, I think finding a book where the gruesome setting is an American Halloween fair is a great start. Noelle W. Ihli’s The Thicket does not play around with its apt pacing, firm tension, and thrilling immersion, and if you are searching for a short but…

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  October 6, 2025

  Crime Fiction, Horror

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• The Psychological Horror of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House

  As the bridge between scholarly classic reading and Spooktober’s chilling thrills, I thought Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House would be an excellent final post for September’s Scholarly Reading Month. Not only is Shirley Jackson an absolute beast of a horror writer in the best possible way, but The Haunting of Hill House serves…

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  September 27, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Horror

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• Tantalising Dark Academia in An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson

  I don’t quite know how to word this, so let me word vomit for a bit to get my thoughts across. I have just finished An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson and my head is a bit everywhere. This dark academia novel laced with horror and supernatural elements has held my attention for a…

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  September 6, 2025

  adult fantasy, dark academia

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• Horrifying Literary Fiction in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

  Han Kang’s literary prowess has been a point of interest of mine for the last few months, with Humans Acts and The White Book coming across my recent reads and now The Vegetarian making it to the list. The Vegetarian, like her other works, is not a light-hearted story, nor is it a simple read.…

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  April 17, 2025

  Foreign Lit, Horror, Poetry and Short Stories

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• M.L Rio’s Graveyard Shift is Full of Gothic Horror Detail

  I’ve been stewing on Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio for a few weeks, digesting my thoughts and emotions and working out what to write for this review. I have seen a wide stretch of responses and reviews, some people hating it while others didn’t mind it, and though I personally haven’t seen anyone love this…

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  December 28, 2024

  Horror, science fiction

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• Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties – Genre-Bending and Unique

  Another day, another short story collection to pass the time. Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties is a genre-blending selection of tales that will both titillate and terrify you. Mixing science fiction and horror with literary fiction with a heavy smattering of some sexually explicit details, this collection is full of LGBTQ+ representation…

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  November 28, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction, Horror, Poetry and Short Stories, science fiction

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• H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a Lush, Vivid Nightmare

  I mentioned in a Spooktober 2023 post and in my Haunting Author Recommendations post earlier this month The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a renowned H.P. Lovecraft tale not to be missed. I abided by that sentiment and read The Shadow Over Innsmouth to get a feel for the truly horrific and disturbing during this month…

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  October 22, 2024

  Classic Fiction, Horror, science fiction

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