Tag: mild horror

• 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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• A New Witcher Release with Andrzej Sapkowski’s Crossroads of Ravens

  The love/hate relationship I have with the Witcher books is quite serious, but Crossroads of Ravens has done wonders to lessen the hate and balance the overall standings out. This standalone novel shows a different side of Geralt than we’ve seen before, a more naive side perhaps, and in doing so shine a completely different…

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  October 20, 2025

  adult fantasy

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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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• 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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• A House With Good Bones Also Has Good Creep Factor

  T. Kingfisher’s A House With Good Bones is a horror novel with a decent premise, a likeable narrator and a plethora of creepy details and affinities that flesh out all compelling horror books. You can’t help but feel on edge when bugs and vultures are involved. There were things I really liked about this book,…

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  October 7, 2023

  Horror

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• House of Salt and Sorrows – Erin A. Craig’s Dark Fantasy Must Read

  With the sequel on it’s way, I thought now would be a great time to sing my praises to Erin A. Craig and her magnificent dark fantasy fairytale retelling, House of Salt and Sorrows. House of Salt and Sorrows is a dark fantasy retelling of the fairytale The Twelve Dancing Princesses with mild horror elements…

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  July 4, 2023

  YA Fantasy

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