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Something is Wrong with these Houses
Haunted House novels are uniquely unsettling, at least I think so. They’re one of my favourite types of horror novels, and I don’t mean ghosts or creaking floor boards, I mean houses that feel alive in the worst ways. Houses that leap off the page, that watch you from the margins, that remember and slowly begin to close around the people trapped inside them, that drag you in as well. Haunted house stories are some of my favourite kinds of horror because the setting becomes part of the nightmare itself. The walls feel wrong. The rooms shift. Reality starts slipping sideways, and the longer the characters stay, the more impossible…
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Weird Girl Horror You Need to Read
Sometimes you just need a different type of comfort read, Sometimes I need a book thats a little . . . Different. There’s something about weird girl horror that just hits differently. Not the final girl. Not the scream queen. But the girl who is a little off, a little obsessive, a little too interested in things she probably shouldn’t be. These are stories about girls who unravel, girls who consume (sometimes literally), girls who don’t behave the way they’re supposed to, and honestly? That’s where the horror gets good, where it gets captivating, where it gets unputdownable. If you’re looking for horror that’s unsettling, feminine, feral, and just a…
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Gothic Reads – My February TBR
Gothic horror is the key to my heart, it’s my forever favourite genre. For February, I decided I wanted to do a deep dive into some of the gorgeous Gothic goodies I have sitting on my shelves (physical or digital). I want haunted houses, slow-burning dread, obsession and secrets that refuse to stay buried. This year, I really want to read for myself, things that make me happy and go beyond trends, so my plan is to deep dive into gothic literature. I’d love to go back and read the classics, find all the books that created the genre I love so much, but for today and this month, I…
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