your own words

Here’s your chance to share what you’ve read & recommend as well as those you’d like to read in the future.

Here are submissions from the community. Keep ’em rolling!

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany Jackson (Modern retelling of Carrie. I’ve read this and it is AMAZING)

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (a shapeshifting lesbian monster falls in love with a human woman and has to figure out how to love her without eating her. Definitely more sci-fi than horror. I’ve read this one too and it also slaps)

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 21st Century (The Premise: A compilation of HR reports from the crew of the Six Thousand space ship as they explore the planet New Discovery. Half the crew are human, ordinary people who will die before the ship returns to Earth, and half are humanoid, created beings that could (hypothetically) live forever.) It’s science fiction poetry that genuinely moved me to tears at times.

Any book by Stephen Graham Jones, You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White, and Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer; if podcasts are an option Archive81 (haven’t listened to the podcast itself, but watched the Netflix show by the same name and it was great!)

The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren, PTSD Radio by Masaki Nakayama, Uzumaki by Junji Ito

[November suggestion] The Terror by Dan Simmons & [December suggestion] Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito [book is set around Christmas, there’s also a movie coming out in November!]

A Night in the Lonesome October- Zelazny & Something Wicked This Way Comes- Bradbury

There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm and Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are my new inclusions!

Some classic horror (Dracula, Frankenstein, or mummy stories) would be neat.
House of Leaves has also been on my list forever and RIP book club would be a good excuse to finally face my fear of it.