BETWEEN TWO FIRES!!! I just finished that about a month ago and I was gasping and freaking out and screeching and crying through the whole thing, I loved it sm
My son just told me to get that game and that he thinks I'll love it! So cool to see it mentioned here! 😁 I'm a bit of a horror fanatic. I told him maybe we'll get it to play through on Halloween
I really feel like you'd love T Kingfisher's horror books if you haven't read them. Hollow Places and Twisted Ones were great. House With Good Bones was solid. I really love the Sworn Soldier books, it's a nonbinary character retelling of Fall of the House of Usher but with a sorta fantasy world twist, very cool.
I recently got "what moves the dead" but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. But you said the sworn soldier books are a retelling of fall of the house of usher, which is also the description of what moves the dead. Does that mean it's part of a series?
I love your watermelon glasses!! I’m in LOVE with Slewfoot and I accidentally watched The Cabin At The End Of The Woods because I thought it would be about home invasion but it was HEAVILY Apocolyptic and my anxiety barely survived it. I still think about it 😅
Dang it man, I don't have much time to actually sit and read so I wanted to listen to the audiobook for cabin at the end of the woods, but... No offense to whoever the narrator was but that was the worst narration I've ever heard in my life, I literally couldn't get past the first few minutes without wanting to claw my ears off. It sounded like an AI robot voice reading off a list of warnings and side effects from a medicine bottle or something, lol. It was unlistenable. At least the version my library had, not sure if there's a better one out there.
Me too!! They were my favorite!!!!! The Fear Street Trilogy movies are actually really good in my opinion have you watched them? They're coming out with a fourth soon I'm not sure when exactly but yeah I'm excited I hope they keep making them because that trilogy was actually really good. I love like, contemporary teen slashers, that's my favorite kind of horror movie I think, although my film snob son says they are the worst kind, lol.
RL Stine actually wrote 3 adult horror books: Superstition, Red Rain, and Eye Candy if I remember correctly. I just got Red Rain, can't wait to read it.
Ahhhhh I JUST finished Delicate Condition today because it was in your last ranking video! I too was obsessed from the beginning to end! Also super loved A Dowry of Blood as well 😍 and added almost all the dire circumstances in isolated snowy settings stories because obviously
I love this channel so fucking much 😭 I’m not a book girl I’m a movie girl but when I looked up an it ends with us movie review to show my mom why we should not go see it, your vid popped up and I’m obsessed with your style of videos. Your voice is so soothing, your comments are entertaining, your summarizing and phrasing of quotes are great, and I love your editing and memes too. Might pick up one of these books because my bday is Halloween and I should get some spooky stuff 🔥
Oh I ADORED between two fires. I’m not sure what it was about it, but I just loved it. I also am very interested in medieval history so that helped but maaaaaan. The only part I was iffier on were the body shenanigans near the end, but the actual ending demolished me in such a good way
✨️ she has range ✨️ The scene you referenced in Tender is the Flesh - somehow that was in par with the last line for me. It really messed me up. Also, you being so conflicted on Disseverment was a big point in the rec column for me 😂 I ended up adding that, ToBe Devoured, Dead Inside...too many to my tbr 😅
read bloom bc of your recommendation and i could NOT be happier about it. its so so so good, i read it at the beginning of the month and im still thinking about it tbh. we need more horrific sapphics !!!!!!
Fantastic list! I do want to add that The Halloween Tree is like... babies first weird-horror lol I love it so much. And that The Girl In The Well has a sequel that I really liked. Thanks for pumping up my tbr ... and please bless us with a list of headless horseman books... for umm, science. Lol
I'm so happy you did not delve into King's works more. He is such a mothertucker. My first read was IT, and he made me regret reading, lol. Out of his books, I would recommend Pet Cemetery, Misery, and The Shining!
I’ve read (in order) The stand, a collection of his short stories, The Shining, and dr. Death. And, yeah. He’s obsessed with 2 things: child sexuality and laundry.
@tabathaalshalhoub1653 exactly! I don't know why he would desensitize his readers to children sex!!!! When I read IT after watching how they adapted the end scene in the movie, I was disappointed and disgusted to my core literally...
I added some books from level 1 2 and 3 to my reading list! I am really just starting to branch out my reading and can't wait. One book I did read that is horror is FantasticLand which I jumped into without knowing how gory it gets but I loved it! It's told interview style from a bunch of perspectives and that made it so intriguing to me. Plus I love amusement parks horror related things.
Disseverment and Tender Is The Flesh are two of the grossest books I've ever read - ooh! And Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. So much intense body horror! I LOVED THEM! The Haar really has a lot of heart, so as gory as it was, it was a much easier read than the first two. This was a great list of recommendations!! ❤
I read The Haar after you mentioned it in one of your videos, and I absolutely loved it. It is VERY gory, but it moved me to tears towards the end. I think it is going to be living rent free in my head for a while.
My TBR cannot handle this video but it must! So many good recs! I'll just continue to rec the rest of Rachel Harrison's catalogue! I also really enjoyed Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie so recommending that one! It's told through transcripts of video footage, emails, text exchanges, and such which was a very interesting way to experience a story! The end went some ✨places✨ but overall, it was a fun spooky season read!
I'm so glad you mentioned The Sacrifice and the Girl from the Well! I loved those audio books so much and I don't see enough people talking about them.
Adding so many to my TBR! Please do more themed videos like this, it’s great. For a recommendation back: have you read Into the Drowning Deep? Such a good book.
I recommend The Munstromologist, it's four books and won YA awards.... it's GORY for a YA book like I was shocked. But it's SO good. I told my coworker I read 60 books this year and he almost fell out of his chair.... and I'm 15 books behind 😂 but always love new horror recs
I agree.. I liked We Have Always Lived in the Castle a lot more than The Haunting of Hill House. Though I would like to re-read both.. this month is already booked solid with 20 on my TBR 😅 so if I don't get to them next month I'll just re-read them next spooky season.
"So first we'll start with horror that's not violent or too scary." *starts with the book with nightmare-fuel art and a scarecrow that comes to life and skins a guy alive*
Your glasses are so fun! Spooky season is upon us! Here's some of my recommendations: 1) The Fisherman by John Langan. It's an interesting exploration of grief, loneliness, and acceptance of death in a cosmic horror box. 2) HP Lovecraft's works - classic cosmic horror, just watch out for the racism... dude wrote incredible stories but was an absolute shit person. 3) House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. Psychological horror in a really creepy house. Get the "color" edition too. It adds to the creepy, sometimes confusing, and bizarre nature of the story.
Highly highly recommend both The Spirit Bares Its Teeth and Hell Followed With Us. Especially Hell Followed With Us for the religious trauma/culty vibes + body horror and gore.
I'm on my forties so it's been more than thirty years since I read them, but the Scary Stories books still have me all kinds of messed up. I can't be alone with any kind of scarecrow or scarecrow-style decor. I've literally chosen to sit outside in a blizzard instead.
Two of my book recommendations: Waiting by Frank Robinson (Follow the MC guy as he navigates a word where Homo sapiens aren’t the only humans but it’s a conspiracy and will he make it out alive? Creepy, thriller) A good and happy child (A new father cannot hold his son, goes to therapy, and starts reading his childhood journals where he might have been possessed by a demon).
I love Ania Ahlborn's books! Disturbing, creepy, and I think the first books I ever enjoyed that don't have a happy ending. She has a few available on Kindle Unlimited, and I highly recommend them!
not a book rec, but since you like isolted snowy settings, you should watch yellowjackets! the setting only becomes snowy on season two, and it's a dual timeline situation. its my favorite of alllll time, since i also love isolated snowy settings, horror sapphics, and cannibalism
A recent release I really enjoyed (but others don’t seem to) is Graveyard Shift by ML Rio. It’s a gothic mystery with horror elements novella. It’s level one I read A Southern Bookclub… a few years ago and I would classify it as level two (at least in my taste and from what I remember). There were pretty gory scenes. I have to try more horror because it’s my most liked genre (ratio wise) even if I don’t read a lot of it. Thanks for the recs!
First - those glasses? are they new? i love them! Second - great list, doubling for Camp Damascus, really love it. And omt R.L. Stine was my childhood let's go.
I LOVED the Cabin at End of Woods movie, but I didn't like the ending at all. It felt like it needed more. But Rupert plays an amazing supporting role. I hope he does more serious roles cuz *chefs kiss*
I've had several of these books on my TBR already... if you liked Mary by Nat Cassidy and also don't mind bugs, Nestlings by the same author is also SO, so good.
Re: The Outsider I really enjoyed it, but i wasnt expecting it to be a followup to his Mr. Mercedes series. There's a fair amount of context and character development that you miss out in without reading those, IMO.
As someone whose favourite movie is Hellraiser, The Hellbound Heart is always on my TBR list. There's also a sequel called The Scarlet Gospels that connects The Hellbound Heart to Lord of Illusions and if you're into comics at all, BOOM! Comics has a series of Hellraiser comics where (spoiler) Kirsty becomes the new Hell Priest.
My current favorite spooky read is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. It would probably rate level one or two? Small Southern town, spooky house, book within a book, and also just fantastic writing.
22:03 ish Ring Shout (?) like the sound of it Pretty Girls, Ghost eaters sounds great Guillotine has a pretty cover Camp Damascus! Between two fires! I like the idea of it. Did get some good recs thank you (only one I know is Camp Damascus haven’t read it but heard of it)
I love Delilah S Dawson. I just read Mine and Midnight at the Houdini. I'm also rereading Kill the Farm Boy (that she co-wrote with Kevin Hearne) for probably the 5th time. Only Mine is horror, the other 2 are fantasy
Part One (as I have to leave soon) What stays buried sounds great and a nice paring with Lockwood and Co. (Five books first two fun third want to go running that Fetch Ghost? Great then 4th and 5th book) Ghosts of Rose Hill looks great Ooh the one about the heart eater sounds interesting… The Shuddering sounds great (I love Until Dawn)
I don't know if you have read it or been recc'ed it, but Doomsday Book by Connie Willis!! It can be summarized as "Black Plague time travel with dual plagues for double the fun!" It was published in the early 90s, but if you can get over that hurdle, it is a really good book.
For more Steven King that is shorter, I recommend the novella series Different Seasons. This collection includes Rita Haworth and the Shawshank Redemption and The Body (aka Stand By Me). His son Joe's Locke & Key graphic novel series is alsi good for spooky vibes.
Like how you've done your rant reviews (the whole deep dive and personal commentary), what if you took one of these books and did a positive deep dive review to celebrate spooky season? I think that would be fun!
if you're into fairytale-like horror I highly recommend The Salt Grows Heavy. Not very scary or uncomfortable but it's still considered horror so yeah. It doesn't have a very high rating on goodreads because of the prose but I find the prose to be just perfectly pretentious given the context. Very beautifully written gore. Heavy atmosphere and very immersive. Short and just the right amount of sweet. Also it has one of the most beautiful (queer) love stories I've read in a novella. I still swoon over the Plague Doctor lol
Have you read The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural? Also short stories like the scary stories book. I loved it when I was a kid and still love it today
just got back from reading things have gotten worse since we last spoke and hooonestly i was wanting something nastier and i dont know what that says about me but yeah i will look into some more of your recommendations
Slewfoot is my favorite book of all time ✨ Added to my TBR because of this video: Black Sheep The Hunger Seed Mary Pretty girls Bloom Guillotine Hello Old Friend Between Two Fires Helpmeet My bank acct hates me 🫡
Not a book rec but if you loved Until Dawn, you might like The Quarry (I think by the same creators) and Fears to Fathom - it's a series of games that's based on true events, and the creators know how to build suspense and unease. So good!
On a tangent, since you said you devoured all Sleepy Hollow media, have you heard of Headless? It's a web series by Shipwrecked Comedy, which as you can probably tell, skews more comedy than horror, but it's a fun time, very much autumn vibes, and all episodes are on RUclips, so easy to access!
First of all loving the glasses. Second of all r.e. Grady Hendrix, I've read a couple of his books and easily my favourite was How To Sell a Haunted House! Generational trauma, grief, and very creepy puppets. Maybe something you would enjoy? 😊
Also love to see Dead Inside mentioned!! One of the most difficult books to tell people about because I'll be like "I loved it!!" and then people will ask what it's about and I'm like Well...
I've really enjoyed a lot of books by Grady Hendrix. I started with my best friends exorcism and just could not stop. I'll have to check out how to sell a haunted house next, from what you've written it sounds right up my alley
Have you seen the Sleepy Hollow tv show with Tom Mison as Ichabod? I really enjoyed it, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it all the way through. I think it’s on Roku, or Tubi, one of the free streaming channels. 😂
Here to say that Virginia is a southern state (as someone who lives here), but Northern Virginia (think DC suburbs and surrounding areas) are largely considered a world all its own and not southern lol
I wanted to say this before when you said you didn’t care for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. And… I just wanted to point out that it’s not supposed to be a horror story at all. It’s a story about class and society. It’s satire about expectations, social climbing, greed, and incels. The “horror” is actually being made fun of (in how obsessed Ichabod Crane is with “scary” things). And how his fears are exploited when he’s teaching above his station. It’s not a spooky Halloween vibes story. It’s nothing like modern retellings make it out to be. There was never a headless horseman (just a cocky rich boy).
@@weirdobookclub it’s also a story in a story. So, it’s a run on sentence because it’s written by a guy transcribing what’s being told to him in real time.
Omg Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has the most terrifying illustrations 😱 it caused many a nightmare as a child.
Spooky season is year round for me too!! Everyday is Halloween with me 🤣🤣
BETWEEN TWO FIRES!!! I just finished that about a month ago and I was gasping and freaking out and screeching and crying through the whole thing, I loved it sm
The scream I scrumpt when you said The Shuddering gives Until Dawn vibes!! My favorite game, so you know what that means *add to cart*
@@ghosttownpoltergeist I love until dawn so much omg. She's not perfect but that game will always have a special place in my heart 🥺
My son just told me to get that game and that he thinks I'll love it! So cool to see it mentioned here! 😁 I'm a bit of a horror fanatic. I told him maybe we'll get it to play through on Halloween
I really feel like you'd love T Kingfisher's horror books if you haven't read them. Hollow Places and Twisted Ones were great. House With Good Bones was solid. I really love the Sworn Soldier books, it's a nonbinary character retelling of Fall of the House of Usher but with a sorta fantasy world twist, very cool.
I recently got "what moves the dead" but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. But you said the sworn soldier books are a retelling of fall of the house of usher, which is also the description of what moves the dead. Does that mean it's part of a series?
Omg love the glasses 🥰 taking notes so I can add SEVERAL to my TBR (and probs buy too many)
I love your watermelon glasses!!
I’m in LOVE with Slewfoot and I accidentally watched The Cabin At The End Of The Woods because I thought it would be about home invasion but it was HEAVILY Apocolyptic and my anxiety barely survived it. I still think about it 😅
Dang it man, I don't have much time to actually sit and read so I wanted to listen to the audiobook for cabin at the end of the woods, but... No offense to whoever the narrator was but that was the worst narration I've ever heard in my life, I literally couldn't get past the first few minutes without wanting to claw my ears off. It sounded like an AI robot voice reading off a list of warnings and side effects from a medicine bottle or something, lol. It was unlistenable. At least the version my library had, not sure if there's a better one out there.
I read every Fear Street books I could get my hands on when I was a teen! Loved them!
Me too!! They were my favorite!!!!! The Fear Street Trilogy movies are actually really good in my opinion have you watched them? They're coming out with a fourth soon I'm not sure when exactly but yeah I'm excited I hope they keep making them because that trilogy was actually really good. I love like, contemporary teen slashers, that's my favorite kind of horror movie I think, although my film snob son says they are the worst kind, lol.
RL Stine actually wrote 3 adult horror books: Superstition, Red Rain, and Eye Candy if I remember correctly. I just got Red Rain, can't wait to read it.
Ahhhhh I JUST finished Delicate Condition today because it was in your last ranking video! I too was obsessed from the beginning to end! Also super loved A Dowry of Blood as well 😍 and added almost all the dire circumstances in isolated snowy settings stories because obviously
Have you read The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson? There's a series but the first one is the best. That book is still living rent free in my head.
Holy shit, yes, this book has never left my mind. I still think about the scene with Lionette and the expiration 😭
I have been wanting to read this for forever. Maybe this is the time
@@weirdobookclub brb, I'm adding it to my helpmeet request list!! 🤣
I love this channel so fucking much 😭 I’m not a book girl I’m a movie girl but when I looked up an it ends with us movie review to show my mom why we should not go see it, your vid popped up and I’m obsessed with your style of videos. Your voice is so soothing, your comments are entertaining, your summarizing and phrasing of quotes are great, and I love your editing and memes too. Might pick up one of these books because my bday is Halloween and I should get some spooky stuff 🔥
Oh I ADORED between two fires. I’m not sure what it was about it, but I just loved it. I also am very interested in medieval history so that helped but maaaaaan. The only part I was iffier on were the body shenanigans near the end, but the actual ending demolished me in such a good way
✨️ she has range ✨️
The scene you referenced in Tender is the Flesh - somehow that was in par with the last line for me. It really messed me up. Also, you being so conflicted on Disseverment was a big point in the rec column for me 😂 I ended up adding that, ToBe Devoured, Dead Inside...too many to my tbr 😅
read bloom bc of your recommendation and i could NOT be happier about it. its so so so good, i read it at the beginning of the month and im still thinking about it tbh. we need more horrific sapphics !!!!!!
I added pretty much everything from the last tier to my tbr bc i love some good gore. thank you for the gory suggestions!!!
Natalie and Spooky books 👻🎃? I need nothing else in life 😂
Fantastic list! I do want to add that The Halloween Tree is like... babies first weird-horror lol I love it so much. And that The Girl In The Well has a sequel that I really liked.
Thanks for pumping up my tbr ... and please bless us with a list of headless horseman books... for umm, science. Lol
Ring Shout! Went in knowing absolutely nothing about it. Let me tell you, the GASP I gusped when I got to the reveal! SO good.
I'm so happy you did not delve into King's works more. He is such a mothertucker. My first read was IT, and he made me regret reading, lol.
Out of his books, I would recommend Pet Cemetery, Misery, and The Shining!
I’ve read (in order) The stand, a collection of his short stories, The Shining, and dr. Death.
And, yeah. He’s obsessed with 2 things: child sexuality and laundry.
@tabathaalshalhoub1653 exactly! I don't know why he would desensitize his readers to children sex!!!! When I read IT after watching how they adapted the end scene in the movie, I was disappointed and disgusted to my core literally...
Those are on my list! I haven’t read It but I have only heard terrible things about it haha
@weirdobookclub
I loved the book until he ruined it in the last 50 pages or so 🥲 book was over 1000 pages long, damn.
I added some books from level 1 2 and 3 to my reading list! I am really just starting to branch out my reading and can't wait. One book I did read that is horror is FantasticLand which I jumped into without knowing how gory it gets but I loved it! It's told interview style from a bunch of perspectives and that made it so intriguing to me. Plus I love amusement parks horror related things.
Disseverment and Tender Is The Flesh are two of the grossest books I've ever read - ooh! And Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. So much intense body horror! I LOVED THEM! The Haar really has a lot of heart, so as gory as it was, it was a much easier read than the first two. This was a great list of recommendations!! ❤
I read The Haar after you mentioned it in one of your videos, and I absolutely loved it. It is VERY gory, but it moved me to tears towards the end. I think it is going to be living rent free in my head for a while.
This is such a fantastic video!! Love the levels
My TBR cannot handle this video but it must! So many good recs! I'll just continue to rec the rest of Rachel Harrison's catalogue! I also really enjoyed Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie so recommending that one! It's told through transcripts of video footage, emails, text exchanges, and such which was a very interesting way to experience a story! The end went some ✨places✨ but overall, it was a fun spooky season read!
I'm so glad you mentioned The Sacrifice and the Girl from the Well! I loved those audio books so much and I don't see enough people talking about them.
I *loved* Fear Street when I was middle school. I re-read the The Cataluna Chronicles so many times. It was one of my favorites.
Adding so many to my TBR! Please do more themed videos like this, it’s great. For a recommendation back: have you read Into the Drowning Deep? Such a good book.
i did special order ghost eaters through my local bookstore from your recommendation; am halfway through and enjoying the author's prose a lot!
I recommend The Munstromologist, it's four books and won YA awards.... it's GORY for a YA book like I was shocked. But it's SO good.
I told my coworker I read 60 books this year and he almost fell out of his chair.... and I'm 15 books behind 😂 but always love new horror recs
I agree.. I liked We Have Always Lived in the Castle a lot more than The Haunting of Hill House. Though I would like to re-read both.. this month is already booked solid with 20 on my TBR 😅 so if I don't get to them next month I'll just re-read them next spooky season.
I too would like some Black Plague horror recs 👀
Maaaaaan.... RIP to my Goodreads TBR list. This video is wonderfully dense with recs and I'm glad to have it.
Definitely adding almost all of levels 1 & 2 and half or so of level 3 to my TBR!
I'm just starting The Ghost Eaters audiobook! Excellent recommendation!
"So first we'll start with horror that's not violent or too scary."
*starts with the book with nightmare-fuel art and a scarecrow that comes to life and skins a guy alive*
Your glasses are so fun! Spooky season is upon us!
Here's some of my recommendations:
1) The Fisherman by John Langan. It's an interesting exploration of grief, loneliness, and acceptance of death in a cosmic horror box.
2) HP Lovecraft's works - classic cosmic horror, just watch out for the racism... dude wrote incredible stories but was an absolute shit person.
3) House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. Psychological horror in a really creepy house. Get the "color" edition too. It adds to the creepy, sometimes confusing, and bizarre nature of the story.
Definitely adding some of these recs to my TBR!
Mitchell Luthi has a few black plague horror novellas, would especially recommend the audio books.
Your glasses ❤️
The Push by Ashley Audrain I recommend giving it a try. It’s a tense book and kept me up at night. As a mother especially it stressed me out 😅
Highly highly recommend both The Spirit Bares Its Teeth and Hell Followed With Us. Especially Hell Followed With Us for the religious trauma/culty vibes + body horror and gore.
I’m picking one from each level for October. We shall see how many I actually get through. Thanks for the recs!
oooh glasses!
I'm on my forties so it's been more than thirty years since I read them, but the Scary Stories books still have me all kinds of messed up. I can't be alone with any kind of scarecrow or scarecrow-style decor. I've literally chosen to sit outside in a blizzard instead.
I read Slewfoot and although I enjoyed it...I honestly questioned the pacing...but the artwork was absolutely STUNNING!! Overall, a 3/5
Two of my book recommendations:
Waiting by Frank Robinson
(Follow the MC guy as he navigates a word where Homo sapiens aren’t the only humans but it’s a conspiracy and will he make it out alive? Creepy, thriller)
A good and happy child
(A new father cannot hold his son, goes to therapy, and starts reading his childhood journals where he might have been possessed by a demon).
I love Ania Ahlborn's books! Disturbing, creepy, and I think the first books I ever enjoyed that don't have a happy ending. She has a few available on Kindle Unlimited, and I highly recommend them!
not a book rec, but since you like isolted snowy settings, you should watch yellowjackets! the setting only becomes snowy on season two, and it's a dual timeline situation. its my favorite of alllll time, since i also love isolated snowy settings, horror sapphics, and cannibalism
A recent release I really enjoyed (but others don’t seem to) is Graveyard Shift by ML Rio. It’s a gothic mystery with horror elements novella. It’s level one
I read A Southern Bookclub… a few years ago and I would classify it as level two (at least in my taste and from what I remember). There were pretty gory scenes. I have to try more horror because it’s my most liked genre (ratio wise) even if I don’t read a lot of it. Thanks for the recs!
First - those glasses? are they new? i love them!
Second - great list, doubling for Camp Damascus, really love it. And omt R.L. Stine was my childhood let's go.
Yes the glasses are new and I am in love with them!
Camp Damascus was AMAZING!!
I LOVED the Cabin at End of Woods movie, but I didn't like the ending at all. It felt like it needed more. But Rupert plays an amazing supporting role. I hope he does more serious roles cuz *chefs kiss*
I've had several of these books on my TBR already... if you liked Mary by Nat Cassidy and also don't mind bugs, Nestlings by the same author is also SO, so good.
Re: The Outsider
I really enjoyed it, but i wasnt expecting it to be a followup to his Mr. Mercedes series. There's a fair amount of context and character development that you miss out in without reading those, IMO.
As someone whose favourite movie is Hellraiser, The Hellbound Heart is always on my TBR list. There's also a sequel called The Scarlet Gospels that connects The Hellbound Heart to Lord of Illusions and if you're into comics at all, BOOM! Comics has a series of Hellraiser comics where (spoiler) Kirsty becomes the new Hell Priest.
My current favorite spooky read is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. It would probably rate level one or two? Small Southern town, spooky house, book within a book, and also just fantastic writing.
22:03 ish Ring Shout (?) like the sound of it
Pretty Girls, Ghost eaters sounds great
Guillotine has a pretty cover
Camp Damascus!
Between two fires! I like the idea of it.
Did get some good recs thank you (only one I know is Camp Damascus haven’t read it but heard of it)
I love Delilah S Dawson. I just read Mine and Midnight at the Houdini. I'm also rereading Kill the Farm Boy (that she co-wrote with Kevin Hearne) for probably the 5th time. Only Mine is horror, the other 2 are fantasy
Part One (as I have to leave soon) What stays buried sounds great and a nice paring with Lockwood and Co. (Five books first two fun third want to go running that Fetch Ghost? Great then 4th and 5th book)
Ghosts of Rose Hill looks great
Ooh the one about the heart eater sounds interesting…
The Shuddering sounds great (I love Until Dawn)
I don't know if you have read it or been recc'ed it, but Doomsday Book by Connie Willis!! It can be summarized as "Black Plague time travel with dual plagues for double the fun!" It was published in the early 90s, but if you can get over that hurdle, it is a really good book.
For more Steven King that is shorter, I recommend the novella series Different Seasons. This collection includes Rita Haworth and the Shawshank Redemption and The Body (aka Stand By Me). His son Joe's Locke & Key graphic novel series is alsi good for spooky vibes.
Like how you've done your rant reviews (the whole deep dive and personal commentary), what if you took one of these books and did a positive deep dive review to celebrate spooky season? I think that would be fun!
I could definitely do that! But I’m so behind I may not get it out in time
@@weirdobookclub That's okay! It can be an idea for next year, or just whenever it feels right. There is absolutely no pressure!
if you're into fairytale-like horror I highly recommend The Salt Grows Heavy. Not very scary or uncomfortable but it's still considered horror so yeah. It doesn't have a very high rating on goodreads because of the prose but I find the prose to be just perfectly pretentious given the context. Very beautifully written gore. Heavy atmosphere and very immersive. Short and just the right amount of sweet. Also it has one of the most beautiful (queer) love stories I've read in a novella. I still swoon over the Plague Doctor lol
Have you read The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural? Also short stories like the scary stories book. I loved it when I was a kid and still love it today
just got back from reading things have gotten worse since we last spoke and hooonestly i was wanting something nastier and i dont know what that says about me but yeah i will look into some more of your recommendations
Slewfoot is my favorite book of all time ✨
Added to my TBR because of this video:
Black Sheep
The Hunger
Seed
Mary
Pretty girls
Bloom
Guillotine
Hello Old Friend
Between Two Fires
Helpmeet
My bank acct hates me 🫡
Not a book rec but if you loved Until Dawn, you might like The Quarry (I think by the same creators) and Fears to Fathom - it's a series of games that's based on true events, and the creators know how to build suspense and unease. So good!
On a tangent, since you said you devoured all Sleepy Hollow media, have you heard of Headless? It's a web series by Shipwrecked Comedy, which as you can probably tell, skews more comedy than horror, but it's a fun time, very much autumn vibes, and all episodes are on RUclips, so easy to access!
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland is a paranormal ya book that is SO GOOD and could probably fit in the level one category
First of all loving the glasses. Second of all r.e. Grady Hendrix, I've read a couple of his books and easily my favourite was How To Sell a Haunted House! Generational trauma, grief, and very creepy puppets. Maybe something you would enjoy? 😊
Also love to see Dead Inside mentioned!! One of the most difficult books to tell people about because I'll be like "I loved it!!" and then people will ask what it's about and I'm like Well...
I've really enjoyed a lot of books by Grady Hendrix. I started with my best friends exorcism and just could not stop. I'll have to check out how to sell a haunted house next, from what you've written it sounds right up my alley
Cradleland of Parasites by Sara Tanglinger is a poetry book all about the black plague 🐀
Everyday is Halloween 🎃👻🦇
Have you seen the Sleepy Hollow tv show with Tom Mison as Ichabod? I really enjoyed it, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it all the way through. I think it’s on Roku, or Tubi, one of the free streaming channels. 😂
I would suggest the audiobook for "Horrorstor"
Here to say that Virginia is a southern state (as someone who lives here), but Northern Virginia (think DC suburbs and surrounding areas) are largely considered a world all its own and not southern lol
Please try Perfect Days, I forgot the author, he’s Brazilian. And, after typing all that, it would have been shorter to just look up Raphael Montes.
is that a lighter hair color i see or am i just blind 😂 ?? i feel like it was a bit darker before
I wanted to say this before when you said you didn’t care for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. And… I just wanted to point out that it’s not supposed to be a horror story at all. It’s a story about class and society. It’s satire about expectations, social climbing, greed, and incels. The “horror” is actually being made fun of (in how obsessed Ichabod Crane is with “scary” things). And how his fears are exploited when he’s teaching above his station.
It’s not a spooky Halloween vibes story. It’s nothing like modern retellings make it out to be. There was never a headless horseman (just a cocky rich boy).
I understood the book. It still read like a run on sentence and that’s mainly why I didn’t like it.
@@weirdobookclub it’s also a story in a story. So, it’s a run on sentence because it’s written by a guy transcribing what’s being told to him in real time.