It's objectively the best time of the year (autumn) to read the best kind of books (spooky, disturbing, horror). These are some of my favorite books to read during the 'ber months.
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If you love Ghosts & Hauntings
If you love a good Slasher
If you love Spells & Witches
If you love being Unsettled
If you love Vampires
If you love the concept of the Satanic Panic
If you love Ghosts & Hauntings
How far would you go to help your sister with her creepy husband in her gothic house?
Mexican Gothic
If you want a book that has a horrifying premise but is also deeply emotionally traumatizing then get this book.
She's a Doll
POV: you have to return to the house where your father killed a bunch of people
Just Like Home
POV: your family absolutely sucks on an Italian getaway and a ghost is also there
Diavola: A Novel
A fever dream of a book that will leave you the most confused and intrigued you've ever been
We Used to Live Here: A Novel
All you wanted was to be a normal girl but your dad had to go and write a book about how haunted your house was
Home Before Dark: A Novel
Your mom wrote a book about your haunted childhood home and you promised your sisters you'd never read it. Oops.
Play Nice
If you love a good Slasher
A slasher with as much gruesomeness as there is heart
I Was A Teenage Slasher
What's worse: seeing your ex for the first time post-break up or being killed over and over again in a slasher time loop?
Kiss Slay Replay
A Carrie retelling with a modern twist
The Weight of Blood
A stream of consicous, rambling novel with a powerhouse of a main character
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Indian Lake Trilogy #1)
I actually hate this book so much but it is, in fact, a slasher
Final Girls
Quinn Maybrook is 100% that girl and this is 100% that YA slasher book
Clown in a Cornfield
If you love Spells & Witches
At the end of the day, we all just want to fit in (even if we are a little weird)
Cackle
The coziest of witchy books
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Wait, magic is real and I need to use it to save my favorite hometown?
Small Town, Big Magic
You don't get your heartbroken and curse an entire bloodline?
The Ex Hex: A Novel
Witches are real, and we're being closely monitored
The Women Could Fly: A Novel
If you love being Unsettled
Husbands and me, am I right?
The Yellow Wallpaper
How would you react if your wife came back from her deep sea mission and suspiciously started turning into a sea creature?
Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
The Bunnies can make all of your writing dreams come true and also if you want a boyfriend
Bunny: A Novel
If you have OCD or anxiety maybe steer clear of this one except I have both and I loved it
ITCH!: The darkly feminist horror novel crawling under your skin...
If you love Vampires
Sometimes we go no contact with toxic friends, sometimes we turn into vampires together
So Thirsty
Isn't it normal for an alluring vampiress to slither in your window late at night to save you from you dullard of a husband?
Hungerstone
Stephen Graham Jones wrote it, need I say more?
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
If you love the concept of the Satanic Panic
Going back to your hometown sucks, going back to your culty childhood sucks even more.
