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💚👁️🕸️ In honour of The Magnus Protocol releasing today, here are some book recommendations based on The Magnus Archives Fears!! 🕸️👁️💚
Detailed list of books below the cut!
For more book recommendations, especially queer horror, check out my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks
The Buried ⚰️
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
- Stuck by Ben Young
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
- The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Corruption 🦠
- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
- Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
The Dark 🌑
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski
- No Power by Todd Kirby
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Desolation 🔥
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Burner by Robert Ford
- Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
- Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins
The End 💀
- Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
The Extinction 🦴
- Lost Signals by Max Booth III
- Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy
- No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
- The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones
The Eye 👁️
- Video Palace by Maynard Wills
- Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
- A History of Fear by Luke Dumas
- The Watchers by A.M. Shine
The Flesh 🦷
- You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca
- Carnivore by Justin Boote
- A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
- Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Hunt 🏹
- Hunt by Alexandra Nisneru
- The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
- Survive the Night by Danielle Vega
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Lonely ☁️
- Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan
- Solitude by Michael Penning
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Slaughter 🥩
- Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas
The Spiral 🌀
- That Darkened Doorstep by Catherine Jordan
- Mind the Mirrors by Amanda Leanne
- Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke
- Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
The Stranger🕴️
- It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- The Deep by Alma Katsu
- The Outside by Stephen King
The Vast 🪂
- From Below by Darcy Coates
- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
- Floating Staircase by Ronald Mafi
- Nightmare Sky by Red Lagoe
The Web 🕸️
- The Taking of Jake Livingston
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu
- The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
- Come Closer by Sarah Gran
If You Like The Magnus Archives 💚
- Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims
- Family Business by Jonathan Sims
- Gas Station by Jack Townsend
- Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol#tma#tmp#Jonathan sims#rusty quill#martin blackwood#jonmartin#booklr#bookstagram#books#horror books#queer books#horror book recs#book recs#mine
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I started redesigning horror book covers into picture books. Here’s Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh. I also do reviews of them on my Instagram and (regrettably) Tik Tok. Suffice to say I was not a fan of this book, just too much poo.
#lapvona#horror novels#horror books#otessa moshfegh#book recommendations#horror book recs#picture book#kidlitillustration
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Hello, hello!
Sorry if this has been asked before, but who is your absolute favourite horror author?
Likewise, do you have any other authors you'd recommend?
Hi! What a great question. Thank you for asking!
The first name that jumps to mind is Stephen Graham Jones. All of his books and short stories stick in my head and I find myself thinking about them months later. I reread Mongrels at least once a year.
Okay, all of my favorites have books that I reread often.
Mira Grant, specifically Into the Drowning Deep. I love ocean horror and she stocks this one with so many interesting characters. I am obsessed with it.
T. Kingfisher (Hollow Places), Cherie Priest (The Toll), and James Brogden (Hekla's Children) are a few more that I jump at their books, devour everything of theirs I get my hands on. The books in parenthesis are just my favorites that I am always screaming about.
This was such a cool ask! Thank you!
What about you? Favorite horror authors? Or favorite horror book?
#letting a horror reader rave about horror authors is such a kindness#thank you!#horror books#horror reader#book recommendations#horror#horror book recs
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My TBR list
I liek my spooky stories
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i neeeeeed more cannibalism/body horror book recs, can y’all recommend your faves???? please and thank you and god bless 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Anybody wanna recommend any sci fi horror books to me? Adult is my preference over YA, please! :3
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Finally finished this today. Such a good read. Also, it was a very easy read, in my opinion. Some of the stuff I'm reading is written in a way that requires a lot of brain power, but this book is written in a way that lets me get lost in the story. It feels very down to earth and conversational but in a very good way. Highly suggest it for anyone thinking about reading it!
#thriller books#horror book recommendations#darcy coates#gallows hill#bookblr#scary books#books#book recommendations#horror book recs#late night reading#thriller book recommendations#reading#december reads
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book review || Rouge by Mona Awad
~Thanks to Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of *Rouge* in exchange for an honest review. ~
She does it again. So good. Fantastic.
Right from the start, we see that Mirabelle is obsessed with beauty and looking young— much like her mother before her we see in the small flashbacks Mira remembers of her mother. I was impressed at just how often beauty and style were brought up:
- Mira’s mother owns a dress shop and Mira works in one as well
- The constant references to Mira and her mother’s youthful appearances
- The obsession Mira has with skincare products, using them as a way to calm herself, referencing what products other people could benefit from, obsessing over trying to cover the scar on her forehead
- Seeing how Mira longs to be complimented by others
- The “self-love” mentioned, but often is being sold by cosmetic companies who benefit from the idea.
- colorism! Because Mira is half-Egyptian and was never able to see herself in those around her, particularly her mother.
Mira definitely has a similar feel to Miranda in *All’s Well* and Samantha in *Bunny* — jaded, cold, and lonely, but in this we see her grief over her mother and the confusion that comes with it, especially once we see some of her memories with her mother.
I was so intrigued by the maternal element of the story— seeing how the little comments and throwaway actions imprinted on Mirabelle so that she’s desperate to be seen as beautiful. She’s tied her entire value as a person to how people view her. It’s heartbreaking and hauntingly familiar for most people. Oh my god though, the way this theme in particular was wrapped up at the end? I adored it. It’s so wonderfully and terribly relatable.
I loved how Awad worked in the bit about cults (and the beauty industry) somehow encouraging individuality while also making everyone as similar as possible. That desperation we all feel to conform to the ideal beauty standard, but how that also involves completely removing any sense of identity. How capitalism and the beauty industry feed on peoples’ insecurities to continue pushing products and the mirroring of that in the cult. While yes, Mira does fit into the stereotype of someone who falls victim to a cult, the beauty element shifts the perspective of it.
The writing in this can only be described as surreal. It’s unsettling and dreamlike, constantly referring to the distorted view we tend to have about ourselves, but also the disorientation of grief. The atmosphere, the narrative, and the story is cinematic, so I’m simply devouring this book when I pick it up. I also loved the continuous references to numerous fairytales. Yes, it’s probably easiest to draw parallels between this and Snow White, but there’s also Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and even Hansel and Gretel, I’d argue. The blurb mentions Eyes Wide Shut (which, yeah, I can see that) but I’d also say there are definitely some bits that had me thinking of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
4.5 / 5 stars
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Your fav horror books?
Ooo I know I’m not going to be able to fit all of them but these are the ones at the the top of my head ! ❤️
Coraline by Neil Gaiman ( i know y’all gonna clown me & say it’s a childrens book but you listen to that audiobook & tell me the part where the whiny voices start chanting doesn’t make your skin crawl 😭)
The Deep by Nick Cutter ( triggered my fight or flight continuously)
The Bell Chime by Mona Kabbani ( psychological horror )
The Black Farm by Elias Witherow ( Omg. Please make sure read all the triggers )
A Dowry of Blood by S.T Gibson ( it does gothic horror so well , love it )
Mexican Gothic by Silvia-Moreno Garcia ( another gothic horror/mystery I love, also I’m mexican so I have to recommend it & if u don’t read it you’re latinophobic 🤧)
Little Heaven by Nick Cutter ( centers a cult )
I Call Upon Thee by Ania Ahlborn ( Creeeepy )
Offseason by Jack Ketchum ( cannibals… )
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell ( I’m gonna stay recommending this bc it gave me so many goosebumps )
Pet Cemetery by Stephen King ( a classic & disturbing )
The Book of the Unamed Midwife by Meg Elison ( dystopian science fiction that leaves you really unsettled )
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Does anyone have any good scary/creepy horror book recs about cannibalism.. asking for a friend
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Anyone have psychological horror book recommendation?
#psychological horror#books#bookblr#book recommendations#reading#horror#horror books#horror book recs#book recs#ddlc
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#some of my favorite horror books#unpacking my treasures!#horror books#horror reader#book recommendations#horror#horror book recs
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"He wants to know me so he can be me but he'll never be me..."
A couple living on rural farm land are visited by a man in a suit with news that turns their world upside down.
I don't know if I'm overly perceptive or if this story showed it's hand too much. Either way I knew the ending very early on. That being said, it's told very well. Love how the final chapters are not explicitly spelt out but leaves you to understand what happened with clues planted early on. A very sobering look at humanity, what it means to be your own person especially.
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100 queer books: horror edition 🔪🩸
disclaimer: i have not read majority of these so cannot guarantee good rep! please feel free to add any i didn’t include
with fall right around the corner, i’m in the horror mood! queer horror (or horror in general) is a genre i never thought i’d be interested in! i have always avoided horror movies because i am a massive scaredy cat and have very vivid nightmares but for some reason i am really loving horror in book format! i will admit, i haven’t read anything TOO scary yet though haha i will be adding a lot of the books mentioned in this list to my tbr and hoping to read a lot of horror this fall 🍂💀🕷️
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i keep seeing people in their late teens/early twenties having a "[X] content intended for younger audiences does not feel satisfying to me anymore but i don't know where to start to branch out into adult fiction" moment and i thought i would give some recommendations for adult fiction for my fellow creepy crawly queer people. all or at least a LOT of it will be on the darker and more fucked up side bc i primarily engage with horror and thriller media personally but feel free to add on with more or recommendations from other genres :)
edit: i am continuing to add to this list so there might be new recs (highlighted in pink) in here every once in a while! also want to add that there's a variety of POC, queer, and disabled authors in here as well, i am also all of the above (asian, bi/aro, poly, disabled) and tried to incorporate as many of their wickedly talented, compelling narratives as possible. that's all, happy reading!
A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers
A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E Schwab*
A Dowry of Blood, S.G Gibson
Animal, Lisa Taddeo*
A Ripple of Power and Promise, Jordan A. Day*
Bunny, Mona Awad*
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi*
Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh*
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry, Alex Ritany*
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk*
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh*
Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan*
Goddess of Filth, V. Castro*
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski
If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha*
Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao
Jackal, Erin E. Adams*
Juniper and Thorn, Ava Reid*
Kindred, Octavia Butler*
Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin*
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee*
Rabbits, Terry Miles*
Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy*
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
She is a Haunting, Trang Thahn Tran
Slewfoot, Brom*
Sorrowland, Rivers Soloman
Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo
Supper Club, Lara Williams*
The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi*
The Change, Kirsten Miller
The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling*
The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher*
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter, Soraya Palmer*
The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri
The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir
The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling*
The Red Tree, Caitlin Kiernan*
The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy*
Vicious, V. E Shwab
Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin*
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher*
#the * means i have not read it myself but have heard good things and/or have it on my to read list!!#wanted to add little blurbs on each book but i am disabled and exhausted and truly don't have the energy for anything other than listing#please do ur own research for content warnings etc! be safe. enjoy <33#adult fiction#adult horror#horror#reference#queer lit#queer adult lit#horror fiction#thriller fiction#book recs#horror media#book list#book recommendations#iron widow#xiran jay zhao#the locked tomb#tlt#tamsyn muir#the dreamer trilogy#tdt#maggie stiefvater#gillian flynn#gone girl#sharp objects#house of leaves#shirley jackson#haunting of hill house#v. e. schwab
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