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Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories — Evans Light

TITLE: Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories EDITOR: Evans Light RELEASED: September 3rd, 2018; Corpus Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS:Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite. That might be why you’re looking at this book right now. If so, you’ve come to the right place. Doorbells at...

October TBR: Too Many Books, Too Little Time

All year, I swore that I would catch up on all of my fall ARCs by September 30th so that October could be totally dedicated to mood reading, yet here we are, and… well, that didn’t happen. At all. So, a few plans for this month are: OWNtober — reading books from my backlist that I purchased myself before this month The IT readalong that Kathy and I are co-hosting. Feel free to join us and use the hashtag #WeAllReadDownHere...

"Halloween in July" Book Tag ???

Thank you so much to my horror twin, Heather, for tagging me in this! The original creator of this tag is @the.book.gypsy on Instagram. Click the book covers for Goodreads links! 1. What book gave you the creeps? Definitely Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, a YA horror collection edited by April Genevieve Tucholke. Some of the stories are just okay, but there are a few surprisingly creepy ones, including my favorite: ‘In the Forest Dark and Deep’, by Carrie Ryan. It’s an Alice retelling that...

There’s Someone Inside Your House – Stephanie Perkins

I had a looooot of feelings about this book – actually, about how people have reacted to this book. So, I’m going to get a rant out of the way. Feel free to skip this paragraph if you don’t like rants. People told me it was going to be absolutely horrible, that no self-respecting horror fan would enjoy it, that it didn’t fit the horror genre, so on… alright. Lemme tell y’all something. I’ve been obsessed with horror movies AND books since I was five years...

T10T: Halloween Reads! ?

This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is a Halloween freebie! I opted to name ten of my favorite books that I deem Actually At Least a Little Bit Creepy for you guys. Click the covers for each book’s goodreads link! 1. I’ve read many of Koontz’s titles, and while they’re usually enjoyable, they rarely spook me. Phantoms, however, came from an era in which Dean hadn’t yet renounced the title of “horror...

Night Shift – Stephen King (Anthology Review)

I am stunned to admit that, at 25 years old, having been a fan of all things in the horror world for my entire life, I have only just now completed my very first Stephen King novel. I DNFed his books so many times in my teen years because his writing just wasn’t for me. I appreciate his style tremendously more now than I ever did in years past, but won’t say that I loved all of the stories in this...

Spooky Halloween Tag

Spooky Halloween Tag created by Simply Kenna. I was tagged in this amazing tag by one of my favorite bloggers and bookish friends, Heather over at The Sassy Book Geek! She is such a sweetheart, her blog is AMAZING, and her answers to this tag were hilarious and perfect, so please go check her out and follow her! Now, for this spooky tag…...

Strange Weather – Joe Hill (ARC Review)

I’ve read almost every piece of work that Joe Hill has graced the world of literature with, and I’ve loved all of them, but this was exceptionally brilliant. Rather than dwell on monsters and ghosts, the most terrifying aspect of Strange Weather was simply the horror of the human psyche, and how far people will go to inflict pain upon others. I’ll be breaking this up by story, as I typically do with novella reviews. I’ve combined the content warnings and will...

The Grownup – Gillian Flynn

Goodreads synopsis: A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the “psychic” visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and...