Practical Magic meets Play Nice? Yep, I can definitely see it! I went into The Sisters of Crimson House not really knowing what to expect, and this is such a perfect book for spooky season. Give me a creepy old house, a family full of secrets, sisters with magical abilities, and some seriously eerie vibes,… Continue reading The Sisters of Crimson House by Melissa Anderson Sweazy
Genre: Fiction / Horror / General
Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose
This was such a fun and creepy collection of horror stories! I feel like this would be the perfect book to pick up leading up to Halloween because you get three completely different stories and they all have such spooky vibes. Never Kill the Medium A thirtieth birthday dinner turns deadly after someone hires a… Continue reading Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her… Continue reading Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong
When Samantha Payne’s grandfather dies, she figures she won’t even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn’t seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father was innocent, despite Sam having… Continue reading The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Just know this book is going to haunt me. I will be thinking about it for a while. And also? READ THIS. Because I need to discuss it with someone immediately. The Caretaker follows Macy Mullins, who takes a mysterious three-day caretaking job she finds on Craigslist. It feels ominous from the start—like a fisherman’s… Continue reading The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Alchemised by SenLin Yu
Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner, of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile… Continue reading Alchemised by SenLin Yu
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion… Continue reading The Only One Left by Riley Sager
A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
Strange things happen in Fell, New York: A mysterious drowning at the town’s roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For Violet, Vail, and Dodie Esmie the final straw was their little brother's shocking disappearance, which started as a normal game of hide-and-seek. As their… Continue reading A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James


