Tag: spooktober 2025
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Steffanie Holmes’ A Dead and Stormy Night – Mystery, Spice, and Fictional Heartthrobs Brought to Life
If you want something a little different, well you have come across the right book post. Picture this – a quaint small town, an enchanted secondhand bookshop, and dashing, morally grey fictional suitors amid the shelves. Oh, and through in a murder mystery into this reverse harem paranormal romance for good measure. Welcome to the…
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Spooktober Returns for 2025
Another October, another round of Spooktober! Spooktober is back and I have many books set aside for this month, from adult fantasy, historical fiction and classic crime fiction to the horrors, the thrillers, and the dark academias that carry that extra tone of sinister. While I would love to do another Spooktober where I post…
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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…