#im about to start maevefly

[spikekat]

spike's horror rec list from the past ~year ish (i also have been doing. grad school. so its not a long list)

-The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

-The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

-Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

-How To Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

-The Design by China Mielville

-Don't Fear The Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones^1

^1 if you like Stephen Graham Jone's recent stuff, may i invite you to also read Growing Up Dead In Texas and/or Ledfeather ?

i also spent a long time this summer listening to short horror stories from the early 20th century and wow, okay, The King In Yellow (Robert Chambers) and The Willows (Algernon Blackwood) are. as good as everyone says. also have grown a fondness for clark ashton smith's bizarre and drippy necromancers.

#reading recs #please god please rec me nasty horror books god please #i need agonies or i wither #im about to start maevefly #also--im fucking mad about how difficult it is to find ahdiobooks of short stories by any of the PROLIFIC women horror writers #who were writing in the 1920s AND ALSO MORE RECENT??? #IF YOU HAVE A BRAM STOKER AWARD YOUR PUBLISHER SHOULD BE MAKING YOUR SHORT FICTION COLLECTIONS SO ACCESSIBLE #MAKES ME MAD #I WANT TO READ THEM BUT ITS LIKE TRYING TO HUNT DOWN A DAMN SILVER DOLLAR