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leannareneehieber · 1 month
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HELLO!
(Yes, this is me as Sarah Winchester for Halloween. Also, yes, this is pretty much my general wardrobe give or take a lace layer. Yes, I wrote a long chapter in this book about Sarah Winchester because I really love her and find her to be fundamentally misunderstood.)
I just wanted to drop by and say it's still Women's History Month and it's still a GREAT time to read about historical women and how their stories resonate with us today. BONUS: you can do this through ghost lore! Here's how!
A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: TRUE STORIES OF AMERICA'S GHOSTS examines women's history by using ghost stories; unpacking how we talk about women, alive and dead. Available wherever books are sold, in paperback, audio and digital! Retailer links here!
Word-of-mouth is so important for books like ours, so if this book interests you, could you please share? Thanks so much and Happy Haunting!
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freckles-and-books · 8 months
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Middle grade reads I want to read this spooky season 👻
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booksquotescoffee · 7 months
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What’s on your October reading list? Added a few of these to my list and excited to start them soon 🎃🍂🍁
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sideshrimp · 6 months
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Spooky Reading
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jadeylovesmarvelxo · 2 years
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Mysterious and Spooky 🖤🕷
can I request something like reader is a new student at Hawkins and they have a personality like Morticia Addams & Eddie falls in love with them immediately?
Requested by anon. 🖤 I hope you enjoy.
Some quotes are by Morticia and I've written them in a different font so you know what ones they are ❤
Likes, comments and reblogs are much appreciated! ❤🙂 I do not give anyone permission to copy my work.
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Talk at Hawkins High School was rife about the new girl y/n. Half the students were fascinated by her and the other half were terrified.
Spooky, kooky and a little mysterious she joined Hawkins in October and set the gossip train alight.
The aura she held was one of confidence, she had a quick wit and entranced those who she met.
Fred had told a sceptical Nancy he was sure she was a witch. Nancy proceeded to call him an idiot.
Jason was torn between thinking she was hot and being seriously spooked out by her while Chrissy was an absolute sweetheart and befriended her straight away.
She walked right into the cafeteria on her first day composed and ignoring the talk that was amped up as she walked over to join Chrissy who had kindly invited her to sit at her table.
Talk ranged from her black knee-high boots, lacy black dress and spider earrings to what lipstick made her lips look that red to other ruder whispers.
"Why do you wear all black. Don't you own any other colours?". Stacy one of the cheerleaders whispered to her and Chrissy told her off for being so rude.
"Black is such a happy colour don't you think? Delightful even". Stacy blinks stunned and she smirks amused.
Well, she did ask.
"I prefer yellow, it's the colour of sunshine". Stacy retorted stifly and y/n looks at her aghast.
"Oh, how frightfully dull. You poor thing". Stacy stares at her stunned and y/n has enough of her gawking and turns away engaging Chrissy in conversation instead.
She was very unaware of the curly brown-haired boy who was gaping at her. If hearts could come out of his eyes they would.
As soon as Eddie spotted her for the very first time he fell in love. He had never seen someone so beautiful in his life.
For the first time in a long time. He was rendered silent and practically floated over to the table she was at, dropping on his knee and gazing at her.
"Jesus H Christ, you're what I've been looking for all my life". She grins.
"So dramatic darling. I love it. My name is yn. What's yours?". She gave him her preferred hand and he kissed it gently.
"Eddie, Eddie Munson and sweetheart you are the queen in my dreams".
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Y/n loved to listen to the rumours about herself, she particularly liked the one about her being a witch (She wishes) and that she liked to put a spell on unsuspecting suitors.
Ridiculous of course but the things people liked to believe were outlandish at times.
It could sometimes get annoying though, so she dressed all in black and liked to wear scarlet red lipstick, ruby red nail polish and loved all things spooky and macabre.
What was the big deal? Was she really the most exciting thing in this small town that was meant to be strange itself?
Of course, she knew about the rumours here, missing kid disappears for a week then comes back, spooky woods, possessions, a girl with superpowers that involved psychic abilities specifically telekinesis, monsters and secret experiments.
Just because half the town liked to keep their head in the sand others didn't. Her mother who loved all things supernatural and otherworldly just like she did had gotten all the gossip from her father who joined the police team.
One person whose attention she did love though was Eddie Munson. The minute they met it was like it was fated. Of that, she was sure of.
Speaking of which she spotted Eddie who was surrounded by his sheeples as he liked to call them - the freshman boys Dustin, Mike and Lucas.
"Hi, beautiful". He drops to his knees takes her hand and kisses it, trailing feather light kisses up her arm then pulling her in for a long passionate kiss.
The minute she met Eddie when he wandered over to where she sat with Chrissy on her first day she fell for him.
They had been joined at the hip ever since.
"How's my princess?".
"Oh, my love, this morning I looked out and it was so stormy, the lightning and thunder. The rain? All gloomy and wild, It is rather romantic don't you think? I love it"
He smiles indulgently and kisses her forehead. Others watched them as they passed but the two of them paid the people no mind.
Y/n cups his cheek as he watched her with reverence.
"I love you, my princess". He murmurs into her ear and she grins.
“You are dearer to me than all the bats in all the caves in the world. I love you to my love”
The three boys stared at each other used to how Eddie and y/n acted but sometimes they were caught off guard.
The two of them really were perfect for each other, soulmates if you will.
In this life and in eternal life too
🖤🎃🍁
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leer-reading-lire · 3 months
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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 26 || Bookish Goodies
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stardustandrockets · 8 months
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Do you consider September 1st the start of Spooky Season™ or do you want until October?
Personally, the season officially starts September 1st, but unofficially, it starts when stores start putting out decorations. I couldn't care less about summer, so here are some book recs that are perfect for Spooky Season™ (regardless of when it starts for you)!
This is by no means an exhaustive list or even exhaustive themes. I grouped things into broad categories and am happy to go into more detail if needed/wanted.
All books are listed below the photos.
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Photo 1: Perfect Books for Spooky Season
Photo 2: Dark Academia: Vicious by V.E. Schwab, If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee, Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew, The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore
Photo 3: Witches: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab, Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu, Crumbs by Danie Stirling
Photo 4: Horror: Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink, Gallant by V.E. Schwab, The Gathering Dark edited by Tori Bovalino, The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
Photo 5: Middle Grade: City of Ghosts by V.E. Schwab, The Devouring Wolf by Natalie C. Parker, The Supernatural Society by Rex Ogle
Photo 6: Pre-orders: In these Hallowed Halls Anthology (out Sept. 12), A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid (out Sept. 19), All that Consumes Us by Erica Waters (out Oct. 17)
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adharagranley-writer · 5 months
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autumn book recs
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray - OScar Wilde
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgeralds
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The crimes of morgue Street - Edgar Allan Poe
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Little Women - Louise May Alcott
Any by Agatha Christie
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crazycatsiren · 7 months
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Already have 5 books stacked up for my October reads. Oh my.
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miskatonicaquarium · 2 years
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Cabinet of Curiosities
In honour of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, here are some of the original stories on which the shorts are based. 
The Autopsy by Michael Shea, which is included in The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 
Pickman’s Model by H.P Lovecraft 
The Dreams in the Witch House by H.P Lovecraft
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
I’m not sure which of Emily Carroll’s short stories The Outside will be based on, but her website is full of all kinds of horrors and she’s the creator of His Face All Red, which I highly recommend. 
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We have a cover, y'all!
The World As It Should Be is available for PRE-ORDER as a Kindle eBook on Amazon here!
PLEASE NOTE: There WILL also be a print edition, but it's not quite available for preorder yet. If you prefer a physical copy, I'll share the link for that order as soon as it's ready! (Of course, you could always order both a Kindle edition AND a physical copy. ;p)
Thank you so much to Maya Preisler, the wonderful cover artist, and to Mocha Memoirs Press, for making this debut author's dreams come true!
What would you sacrifice to change the world?
*Content warnings: suicidal ideation, supernatural horror, gore
Synopsis: Charity Olmstead wants to die. Despite being raised by two self-proclaimed psychics, she isn’t cut out for life in the new magic-ravaged world. When she meets a kelpie on a riverbank in Salem, she believes she’s found her exit. But it turns out the monster is hungry for more than a meal. Sensing Charity’s unawakened magic, he enlists her help in a quest for revenge against the hunters who slaughtered his mate, and in return he promises to grant Charity a swift, painless death once their job is done. As they track the hunters to their base, Charity and the kelpie uncover a terrifying truth: Salem’s corrupt mayor has joined a war that has been brewing for centuries, a battle for magical control that drove Salem's most powerful witch out of her mind and ended the world. Charity must take up the mantle of this fight, grow into her powers, and find a renewed will to live. But the war is not won yet, and its weight may prove too much to bear.
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herchillinglibrary · 7 months
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I am currently reading Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab📖🖤👻🍂
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cyrereads · 7 months
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October Releases (2023) - Indie Authors Edition
Here is a list of a few indie authors who have releases this Oct! Please check them out and support our small authors <3
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle - Steve Hugh Westenra (Oct. 13th) A washed-up thirty-year-old actor and reluctant cryptid investigator, Tyler is used to playing the Scully to his best friend Josh’s Mulder on their stupidly popular YouTube channel. But when Tyler receives previously unseen footage of the B movie bombshell mother who abandoned him eighteen years ago— genre(s): horror
Posthaste Manor - Carson Winter, Jolie Toomajan (Oct. 18th) Everyone has a story about Posthaste Manor. None of the stories end well, but that doesn’t stop the hopeful from hoping and the desperate from trying. This composite novel stands as both history and eulogy of one very haunted house, as recounted by artists, real estate agents, and beloved family pets; by the debauched, the dead and the dying, and anyone looking for one last chance. genre(s): horror
Blood & Flowers - mars adler (Oct. 31 🎃) No one has been able to set foot in the D’Arcy family’s ancestral home for the last twenty years. The family was forced to relocate, and the only place they could find was close to their rival family, the Kanes. Proximity and years of anger have brought the situation to a boiling point, and it’s only so long before all-out war ensues. As a last attempt at peace, the Kane patriarch sends his half-witch, half-vampire advisor, Elio, to help one of the D’Arcy sons try to unravel the house’s mysteries. The only problem? Elio and Valerian D’Arcy hate each other. Years of mediating for their families have left them embroiled in a bitter rivalry, and unable to trust each other. genre(s): vampire, queer, novelette
Δάιος: A Call Me Icarus Novel - Andromeda Ruins (OUT NOW!) The Elysians are here to protect us. They uphold order, they keep citizens safe… unless you are their kid. When you are the child of an Elysian you get to see what they are truly like. You get to see their fears, their anger, their hatred. You get to be subjected to their wants and whims. Most importantly, you get to be trained by the ‘best of the best’ to become an Elysian yourself. At least that’s what we were told. We weren’t told what that training would cost us. What it would do to our bodies and our minds. How it would make us into what the Elysians really are, mindless abominations. genre(s): retelling
Herald of the Witch's Mark - Kellen Graves (Oct. 20) Saffron finally has the one thing he's always a chance to attend school. To be able to do so alongside Prince Cylvan, even while glamoured as a high fey and pretending not to know one another, Saffron is eager to finally experience the education he's always dreamed of. But the expectations of being a perfect fey lord are suffocating enough, and are only made more difficult as the unfettered rowan magic in his body runs wild. genre(s): fantasy, queer, romance, m/m
The Witch of Borygen Marsh - Lysander Arden (Oct. 31 🎃) Corliss is a witch, but their specialty is black magic and necromancy. And there's nothing sexy about that-or is there? Atticus makes a deal with them, but can he survive three nights in that dark cabin in the marshes? The appearance of an undead ex-boyfriend, nightmares that plague the two of them, and the promise of ultimate pleasure may be more than Atticus can handle.
In The Garden Of Echo - H.S. Wolfe (Oct. 31 🎃) Echo and Ender have existed nearly as long as the earth itself. They’re hungry, in love, and indestructible. For centuries they’ve wandered across continents feeding from their favorite food source - humans. But the mess they’ve left in their wake starts their prey on the path of discovering that they are not what they seem. After being forced to curb their feeding and go into hiding, a tragic incident leads Echo and Ender to learn about what they are, and the power they are truly capable of. genre(s): horror, queer
Rosemary & Iron - Dorian Valentine (Oct. 22) When a ritual to restore Mana goes wrong and sends him into the distant past, Célestin Edevane seeks the help of a strange man inhabiting an even stranger estate in order to prevent the calamity that destroyed Mana. Faced with a fascinating world unlike his own, filled with vampires, fae, witches and old gods and an unexpected love affair...will he even want to return to his time? genre(s): fantasy, queer, vampires, romance
The Misfit Mage and His Dashing Devil - M.N. Bennet (OUT NOW!) Apprentice mage Wally spends his days cataloging rare artifacts and dreaming about finally mastering his magics and living the adventures he’s always desired. Bez, a once mighty devil who craves the freedom of the outside world again, despises his confinement inside a powerful object. His only company now comes from the mages working within the archives he’s stored. Among them, the most annoying of them all, an anxious and considerate Walter. genre(s): fantasy, queer, paranormal, m/m, romance
As The Light Goes Out - Olive J Kelley (Oct. 31 🎃) When Boston born and bred Simon Abbott buys an obsolete lighthouse on the coast of Maine, he envisions turning it into a short-term rental with nothing but a HGTV understanding of renovation and heaps of gay audacity. The current caretaker of the lighthouse, Bruce Cadogan, sees right through Simon’s confidence and, in a last ditch attempt to save his quaint New England hometown’s charm, asks for three days to convince Simon not to go through with his plan, or he’ll help him with the renovations himself. genre(s): contemporary, mental health, queer, novella
Knight - Elle Samhain (Oct. 31 🎃) Avery isn’t sure she should even still be alive after Morgana’s Legion left two Reapers dead… and one Saved. She and her friends have located the fifth and final Knight of Od placed in the realm of the living by the Beldam - the Knight of Spirit. The oddball Princess Yumi has waited with bated breath and uncertain heart for the Berserker Witch. Can she be trusted to resist the demon she harbors? The ragtag band of Reapers must confront the monsters of their own pasts before they can ever hope to save the future.
Reborn - Seth Haddon (Oct. 24) When the Rezwyn Empire mysteriously cuts diplomatic ties with the Kingdom of Usleth, merchant lord Oren Radek is sent to investigate. But when he discovers a coup brewing against the emperor, Radek's life and his country's safety is suddenly under threat. Izra Dziove, visionary advisor to the Rezwyn Emperor, is trying to hold the turbulent Rezwyn court together while being plagued by dreams of his fated man. But when Izra’s adversaries launch an attack on the diplomatic party from Usleth, he is forced to take action to protect them and prevent a war. genre(s): fantasy, queer, m/m, romance
King of Hell - Morgan Dante (Oct. 17) Still need to scratch that Good Omens or Supernatural itch? Laurențiu, a vampire staked by his ex-lover's husband, only craves one thing: revenge. In Hell, as a courtier for one of the kings of Hell, he's consumed by it and willing to make a deal to kill the man, Anthony, who turned him into a vampire and abandoned him. genre(s): queer, romance, fantasy, vampires
Devour - Dae Storm (Oct. 17) When Renee Reynolds finds herself dumped by her long-term boyfriend in the middle of the pouring rain on her birthday, she wishes she could escape from her life. Standing furious in the middle of the street, Renee sees something she was never meant to, bringing herself to the attention of a very hungry... feline monster. Unable to outrun the creature from beyond the realm of her beliefs, Renee is left in the claws of her captor: Hale. Hale cannot let a human go knowing what she is; but there's something different about this one.
Outfield Assist - Cat Giraldo (Oct. 17) Outfield Assist is an MMF polyamorous romance with a guaranteed HEA. It's book 2 in the Dominating the Diamond series and can be read out of order or as a standalone.
The Ghosts of Reeser Morrigan - Amara Lynn (Oct. 13) Robert Wutherford is a warlock who runs a shop in the town of Yverwood, though his services as a warlock mostly go unneeded in a town filled to the brim with magically gifted. He spends most of his days with his nose stuck in romance novels, wishing he were in one. When a mysterious client shows up at his door claiming to be in need of his services, Wutherford doesn't believe him. Reeser Morrigan has a ghost problem, so he claims. A warlock couldn't be what he needs… Wutherford agrees to observe Reeser for one night to assess the situation. Once Wutherford witnesses what the true problem is—that Reeser is visited by a new spirit out to devour his soul each night—he realizes he might be the only one who can help, as he possesses the rare wender affinity with souls.
a special thank you to Monster Manor on twt for providing some of the titles on this.
please SHARE and spread the word so we can show our indie authors some much deserved love <3
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melancholyymusings · 2 years
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My first read of the spooky season! I've been wanting to read this book for so many years and have just never gotten around to it. But this is the season! I'm 140 pages in and I'm already so invested. I'm also seeing lots of the inspiration that Stephanie Meyer took for Twilight and it makes me laugh. No shade. I just didn't know it would be so obvious, especially when I've read less than half of the book so far.
Honestly, I might reread Twilight when I finish this because Twilight was the only book in the series I actually enjoyed. Also, because my secret obsession with paranormal stories and gothic atmosphere has been at an all time high ever since the temperatures have started dropping outdoors.
It is Fall, and Fall for me means paranormal, gothic, hauntings, cemeteries, spooky books, and cozy Halloween movies.
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leer-reading-lire · 7 months
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Tarot October BPC | October 7 | Queen of Coins - Cursed Inheritance
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spookydrreid · 5 months
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When your momma buys you the OG (UK version) covers of Throne of Glass for Xmas 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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