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bookaddict24-7 · 7 months

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RECO OF THE WEEK!

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Synopsis:

""Sometimes dead is better...."

When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son—and now an idyllic home. As a family, they’ve got it all...right down to the friendly cat.

But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth—more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful."

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Check out my review on Goodreads here.

Add this book to your TBR on Goodreads here.

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Have you read this book? Would you recommend it?

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Happy reading!

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ijustreadthisbook · 5 months

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So this year I read The Only Good Indian, Wolf In White Van, How To Sell A Haunted House, and I just started Universal Harvester. I think it's clear that my Genre Of The Year for 2024 is going to be horror, so I'd love recommendations!!!!

#horror books #horror recs #horror reads #reading #books and reading #looking for recommendations #horror novels #horror fiction

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laddersofsweetmisery · 11 months

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Currently reading:

#booklr #bookish #books #bookworm #reading #currently reading #horror reads

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amonsteronmaplestreet · 6 months

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It's here! My horror novella, The Last Day, is now on sale for $2.99USD! (or $9.99USD for the paperback)

It's the morning after Ronald Lawrence's high school reunion. He's woken up next to an old crush, listened to her speech about how this was a one-time thing, and now he's stopping for coffee before he leaves this town and his more successful peers and heads back to his own life of mediocrity.

Then a man with yellow eyes beats him to death.

It's the morning after Ronald Lawrence's high school reunion, and he had the weirdest dream last night. He dreamed he was attacked by a giggling maniac with yellow eyes, after he woke up to his old school crush's speech about this being a one-time thing—the same speech she's giving him right now.

A plague of homicidal insanity is spreading across the world. It's the end of civilization, and Ron is reliving it over and over again. Always they catch him. Always they kill him. Always he wakes back up in that hotel room, next to his old school crush.

It's the morning after Ronald Lawrence's high school reunion.

Forever.

Kindle/Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CG81PHYM

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1440032

Barnes & Noble/Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/2940166098153

Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id6462937491

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Search?Query=9798215511343

Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/669327533/The-Last-Day

#books #kindle #horror books #halloween #spooky season #kindle horror #horror reads #indie horror #my dumb life #please reblog #signal boost

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wild-words-and-wounds · 11 months

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#book quotes #words matter #horror books #american psycho #Maeve fly #horror reads #great quotes #halloween #masquerade

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mrdcoolblue · 1 year

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Just finished reading How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 🐿️ This might be a cursed thing to do, but I felt compelled to draw Pupkin in my reading journal. Hopefully he won't attack me tonight and chase after me with his little nubbin feet!

Text ID: This book is terrifying and so insane that I would shout out in disbelief several times while reading. It's a survival horror with absurdly horrible puppets, complicated sibling relationships, and the traumas our families share (or don't).

"The things the dead leave behind linger like a curse, they hang around like ghosts . . . but every single item we put in the trash means there's that much less left behind of the people we loved. Throwing away their things feels like erasing their memories. It feels like exorcising their ghosts." /end ID

#how to sell a haunted house #grady hendrix #horror reads #book fanart #book #review #book recommendation #my art

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theselkiesea · 1 month

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M A L I C E H O U S E

By Megan Shepherd

My first 5 star of 2024

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hokulazuli · 1 year

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when I tell you I spent all day on cloud nine from this comment

#bibliophile #bookseller #books #horror reads #stephen graham jones #don't fear the reaper #Jade Daniels #Jade Daniels is my final girl

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ladzwriting · 6 months

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New series announcement coming this Wednesday, with preorder links!

If you like:

Inspiration taken from early 20th century Russian history (not entirely Romanovs, but not not Romanovs; more Rasputin and the Bolsheviks than anything)

Queers behaving poorly

Villain protagonists

Vampires

Hot DILFs

Political fantasy

Gothic horror

Stay tuned!

#writers on tumblr #vampires #fantasy books #upcoming books #upcoming releases #gothic horror #horror reads #queer fantasy #queer books #lgbt books #sapphic books #gay books

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rachelmpatterson · 11 months

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#books #booklr #goosebumps #r.l. stine #horror reads #reading #90s #scary

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foureyedentity · 11 months

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“…. Please tell me this is a nightmare.”

“Far from it, actually. I assure you;

I am very real.”

Welcome!

If you’re finding yourself here, you likely have a love for things that go bump in the night.

So do I. :>

This blog is centered around my up and coming passion project, Blood Is Sweeter Than Silence, a mystery romance where a young woman returns to an old life she thought she’d left behind, and rediscovers that the secrets the town held when she’d run from it had not been as much of her imagination as she’d been made to believe.

This series will be rated YA, and this blog and it’s accompanying books will contain themes of:

Cannibalism.

Mental illness and society’s reaction to and treatment of it over the years.

General violence.

Bodily mutilation.

Hate crimes.

Psychological horror.

Manipulation.

Topics of abuse, emotional, physical, and sexual.

Demons, angels, cryptids, and all that is supernatural.

The meaning of life.

Death.

Explorations of what comes after death, for multiple people

Unhealthy habits/carrying on the cycle of abuse

PTSD

Suicide and self harm.

And what it means to be human and come out the other side with a want and the ability to heal from such horror.

This story also has multiple LGBT characters, and dabbles lightly in gender dysphoria as well as everything else.

If you cannot handle these topics, I ask that you please move along.

My stories aren’t for you.

But, if you find yourself sticking around?

Please come talk to me. I’ve got a whole other world to take you to. <3

To organize my page, here are some helpful tags!

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#S.C. Rambles = Anything I happen to talk about (usually personal info, or general blabbering)

#Blood is Sweeter Than Silence/ #bists = anything that has to do with my series

#coutalk/ #coudoodles = Art or info about my character Couteau specifically

#fanblood = Will go on any fancontent made :>

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My ask box is always open.

-S.C. xoxo

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uncl3badtouch · 4 months

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📢 Spoilers if you haven't read it 📢

I read 📚 (full disclosure, I listened to this one and it took 44 hours) "It" recently and I'm still reeling. I finished it sometime last week, and there are still scenes that truly haunt me. My mind was also blown with the big finale, but that'll come.

It started off with a bang, the man getting bit 👌🏻 very scurry. But then there were a handful of things that don't get repeated today, and people know about that, so not to beat a dead horse, that's all I'll say. That there were so many slurs I actually learned one I've never heard before. 😅

Anywho, he's apologized and it's the last I will say of it. Soooo, getting back into it, the first chapter really sets you up for what's coming. Now, the next few chapters, I'm not sure if everything I'm gonna say is in exact order but I'm gonna try my best!

Everyone gets their call from Mike to come back to Derry, and suddenly, they remember. Bill had even remembered his brother who he hadn't thought about in years. Derry is a special place where you forget everything as soon as you leave it. ✨️ it is explained better in the book 📖 We catch a glimpse into everyone's lives and how different they all are after they grow up and leave.

Stanley kills himself because he couldn't deal with everything again. It's sad but also the worst because it weakens the gang 😕 everyone meets at the restaurant and they have the famous scene on the food becoming gross stuff and they have to pretend they don't see it. But that happens after they tell a majority of their childhood story, flipping between everyone's memories that are returning to them slowly.

We see some of the traumas the kids endure without It involved. These kids were soo tough. Some of the things they got through... 😔 but here we learn about all the other times that It had popped up too, some of the stories were crazy! And we don't see them in the movies.

The werewolf that the boys encounter is 👌🏻. 🐺 It's so scary and so... almost unexpected. It was probably one of my favorite memories discussed. They laughed and had a decent time then decided to head their separate ways for the evening, and regroup the next day to take It on.

They each run into their own monsters on the way to their shared destination, and each of those monsters is really cool in the way they appeared and who they appeared to. Personal favorite, Beverly and the witch in the candy house 🍬 🍫 🏠 (gotta read it to find out 😉). Soooooo fucking sick. I wish it was in the movies.

They all end up back at the townhouse they're staying at and Beverly and Bill go heels to Jesus in the most awkward way. Like, I was super uncomfortable with how Mr. King described the whole scenario, and it made me roll my eyes so hard people could hear it. He's not a romance writer, that's for sure. I also want to say that the scene after the kids all beat It for the first time, where they all have sex sith Beverly, super unnecessary and super inappropriate in my opinion and we didn't need it to push any part of the story forward. The worst part of the book in my opinion.

When Henry comes back is super eerie. It really made me tense and I really love the crazy of it all, but things didn't go how I had known them from the films and it was really dynamic in that evening leading up to the final fight.

Mike is barely hanging on at this point and the gang decides to get going. I believe it was early morning, I'm not sure the exact time so sorry about that. But the gang goes with Eddys arm broke again and they're down two members. But they make it to the lair of It.

It was difficult and gruesome and Bill's wife is missing, but they make it through all the obstacles. They perform the ritual of Chud and we meet the turtle. I get it and don't at the same time. I'm still thinking about it's significance days later.

Oh, also, I find out that It is female, and pregnant, and it blew my mind. So much so that I had to stop it and call my brother just to talk to him about it because it just blind sided me. Like, I don't know, it just shook me 🤷🏼‍♀️

There was a lot of the story that doesn't get very touched on in the movies. There's steampunk birds, talking moons, gay bars, and a lot of violence and hatred (It was involved in gang murders! Yikes!) And there's so many extra story parts that are sooo good to read about and I would live to see in the movies, but I'm not sure 6 hour movies are everyone (I mean, I could do it, cue lord of the rings) but some of the scenes would be super difficult.

King truly is a a beautiful story teller. He's famous for good reason and deserves all the credit he gets in creating these terrifying and amazing stories. I would never think about half the things he had, he's truly a creator of terror. All in all, I think I'd give It 7/10.

There was so much good 👍🏻 honestly and truly and I wish that more of the book was recognized, but there was a lot I thought could have been taken out. Not including the aforementioned things, there's a ton that I personally don't think moves the story forward in any good way.

Would I re read this? Probably not in its entirety, but I will go back and read read certain scenes

Would I recommend it? Yes, I really do. Take the time to read it or listen to it once in your life. It really is worth it.

What did you think?

#horror #horror review #horror reads #books #scary stories #stephen king #book review #book recommendations

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rbtbc · 8 months

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I have a couple posts coming out for this book. You know me, always trying something different. Expect content to roll out daily. Maybe for the next 3 or 4 days, regarding this book. My goal is to do this for a majority of the books I read and review such that it’s accessible and provides multiple ways for eyes and ears to touch them.

First post for today is the blog post.

Heads-up: If you read it, you’ll see everything (all posts) that are expected to roll out this week. 😃😉 Kind of like early access because you’ve taken the time to check the blog out. 🖤🖤🖤

#bookblr #booklr #blogger #bookish #books #bookworm #book blog #book review #bookblog #book recommendations #book reviewer #book community #r. l. Meza #our love will devour us #horror books #horror reads

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torpublishinggroup · 1 year

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Because it’s unseasonably warm despite this post going up in the dead (horror joke lol) of winter, how about a scary fun beach read??

Black Tide by KC Jones is your classic disaster girl meets mopey af but rich dude tale, where the two plus a Very Good golden retriever snack on self loathing and orange juice as they treat themselves to a beach picnic after a sordid night of mistakes. But it’s not just beach time, baby. The aliens are here, and they’re feral and scary. And the only safe spot is inside the sand-stuck SUV with a dead engine. And the tide is rising.

A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones' Black Tide is Stephen King's Cujo / The Mist meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day at the beach. Then the world ended. Mike and Beth were strangers before the night of the meteor shower. Chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more. Following their drunken and desperate one-night stand, the two discover the astronomical event has left widespread destruction in its wake. But the cosmic lightshow was only part of something much bigger, and far more terrifying. When a lost car key leaves them stranded on an empty stretch of Oregon coast and inhuman screams echo from the dunes, when the rising tide reaches for their car and unspeakable horrors close in around them, these two self-destructive souls must fight to survive a nightmare of apocalyptic scale.

#black tide #horror #kc jones #horror books #aliens #alien invasion #scary ocean #horror reads #scary books #scary

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hokulazuli · 1 year

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Friends, booknerds, fandom, lend me your ears eyes! My first ever real post on here shall be shouting out my favorite books that I read in 2022!

2022 releases:

Fevered Star by Rrebecca Roanhorse

Fault Tolerance by @valerievaldes

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

The Kindred by Alechia Dow

Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Ocean's Echo by @everina-maxwell-updates

Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Thousand Steps into Night by Tracy Chee

Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Shutter by Ramona Emerson

The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones (audio only)

How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

Into the Riverlands by @nghivowriting

2021 or older releases:

The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

We Free the Stars by @hafsahfaizal

The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Darling by @kaylapocalypse

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis

Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark

Far Sector by @nkjemisin

The Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Heartstopper by @aliceoseman

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

#books #bookseller #bibliophile #between earth and sky #monk and robot #bloodmarked #this poison heart #nona the ninth #lakelore #horror reads #lgbtqa books #queer books #the first sister #sands of arawiya #hamlet #far sector #heartstopper

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mthollowell-writes · 7 months

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MT Reads: Vampires of El Norte

I like a good long metaphor about colonialism imbued with all its due monstrousness. I also like the horror of actual monsters who creep in the background, ready to pounce and devour. This thrilling supernatural western offers both in a tale of love in the backdrop of war and terrifying creatures of the night.

Isabel Cañas has a masterful pen in blending history with horror. I loved her debut, The Hacienda, for putting us in a Gothic setting filled with secrets and ghosts in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence. In Vampires of El Norte, she takes us to the northern border between Mexico and Texas, rife with tension on the cusps of the Mexican-American War.

Our main characters, Nena and Nestor, grew up together on the same ranch. They were close despite their class differences, (Nena is the daughter of a prominent rancher, Nestor is the son of a vaquero) but a near tragedy in their youth at the hands of a vampire leaves the two estranged for nine years. Nestor believes Nena dead, Nena thinks Nestor up and abandoned her. The shock of their reunion comes as the Anglos to the north of them overtake the Rio Grande, threatening the homes of everyone who lives along the border.

Vampires of El Norte features lush prose that highlights the setting and spoons out the dread as twilight gives way to night. It has an engrossing will they/won't they romantic subplot and a lot of historical detail to sink your teeth into. I loved getting a glimpse of the daily lives of the vaqueros and rancheros that lived during that period, and the culture surrounding a place and time I'm only vaguely familiar with (but would love to learn more about!). I personally got a bit weary of the romance plot in the last third but the chemistry between the leads was engaging, their banter insightful and funny at times. I got through most of the book within a 24 hour period if that tells you anything.

If any of these things are of interest to you, I'd check it out. It's a solid 4 out of 5 in my book!

#mt reads #vampires of el norte #isabel canas #isabel cañas #horror #horror reads #books #book reviews

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