- The Poisoned King - Katherine Rundell 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A very nice follow up to Rundell’s Impossible Creatures... This sequel is more serious in tone than the first, but is still geared towards that middle-school age crowd... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The Burn Line – Jonathan Sims 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 A decent enough creature-feature where a vampire-ghoul-monster thing lurks in the Tube tunnels beneath London... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

🥵 🐰 🐇 🌞 Toki lounging in the early morning hours before the heat really kicks in for the day. It's been in the mid 30s for several weeks, so the only tolerable time to take the rabbits out is well before 10am. #houserabbit #rabbitlife #rabbits #bunnylove

Flora says HoPpY #bunnybuttfriday

Tapeworm: A Vampire Novel – A.P. Thayer 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Sigh... a disappointment. Not really a vampire novel but a bug horror... At first the relationship building was interesting but then it just dragged on and on with nothing substantial happening... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Medusa – Rosie Hewlett 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Another retelling of a Greek myth, this novella purports to right the wrongs of history from the POV of Medusa, told from her place in the afterlife... While I enjoyed the story, I felt it was lacking a singular voice review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

On A Clear Day, You Can See Block Island – Gage Greenwood 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 There are monsters in the world & the Keatings have seen it with their own eyes. Right from the jump this relentlessly traumatic story lets you know it’s not going to pull any punches review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

The Wetworks Miracle – Caleb Sierra 3.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 imaginative desolate world is unique... After escaping their collapsing world’s ecology a group of colonists land on a world that is occupied by a singular ‘Root’. intriguing & thought provoking story... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Now, I’m not the target audience here... Turns out my cynical, sardonic soul can still be charmed by childhood adventures. And this book was an absolute delight... Review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

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- Lovecraft’s Brood – Ellen Datlow (ed) 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 This collection of stories isn’t bad, but most of them, individually, also weren’t great... My overall discontent is the majority of the tales didn’t provide that frisson of existential dread... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Pet Shop Boys Volume – Chris Heath 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 An exhaustive compendium of Pet Shop Boys uniquely recognizable visual aesthetic & style throughout the years... This is a must for any PSB fan – or anyone who just loves design... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Carry Me To My Grave – Christopher Golden 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 frantic & hair-raising: a man tasked with protecting his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them... creatures pursuing as they cut a path of bloody destruction & death was visceral... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 📚💙

Bloom – @delilahsdawson.bsky.social 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Blossoming, budding… blooming horror… this has it all & it packs a punch. Dawson’s prose is gorgeous & lush without being indulgent... This delicious novella is sweet and savage in all the right ways. review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Habits of the Sea – Shea Ernshaw 2.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 The blurb for this drew me – a book about a timeless, mythical island that’s drifting on the ocean with a man living on it who never ages... alas despite the descriptive writing the story was dull & draggy review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- Puzzle House 2 – Duncan Ralston 4.5/5⭐, rounded up 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Ralston amps up the momentum as well as the stakes as Henry discovers that he’s involved in a sweeping coup as ancient gods appear all over the city... The next book can’t come fast enough! review @ www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Puzzle House – Duncan Ralston 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 kinda a mashup of elements of Saw, Cabin In The Woods, Cube & Agatha Christie locked-room whodunnits all set in a crazy escape room - no HOUSE - with a big fat reward at the end of it all – if you survive review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Imagine the Horror: Dark Tales of Abomination – A.F. Cosentino 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 decent collection of 10 short horror stories that lean to a moderate level of horror so if you’re not into anything too squeamish then these stories should be right up your alley review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

NEED – Ruth Anna Evans (ed) 4.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Solid wonderfully varied collection centring on addiction, hunger, desperation, desire & all its permutations… this offering of quick and dirty short horrors will satisfy that craving and leave you wanting more. review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

My Darling Dreadful Thing – Johanna van Veen 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 lovely gothic novel, haunting & elegant romance with plenty of deep dark secrets, charming & terrifying ghosts & a story that unfolds at a languid pace Recommend for a haunting atmospheric read! review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Oh heck yeah can’t wait to dig into this one @tkrex.bsky.social @stelliform.press

- Claustrophobis - Evan Jameson 3/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 ...not light reading by any stretch. It’s dismal & heavy & misanthropic, but it also makes you ruminate on the core nature of humanity... very excellent visceral scenes, excellent creature & world building... full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Stay Alive – Scott Rowley 4/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I have waited literal decades like so many other fans, with great apprehension & trepidation for the story. And here it is. And it’s made me feel no better... I knew this book wouldn’t be a happy one... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 📚💙 #bigcountry

- Strange Houses – Uketsu 2.5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Inventive but deeply irritating! Strange architecture, sure. But this book’s absurdities just go on and on I'd have actually bought into it more if it had turned out to be a liminal space trope... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

- Barely Magic – Debra Castaneda 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I surprisingly realized by the second chapter of this novel that I was absolutely smitten with it, I suspected I had been lured in by nixies and held hostage by a group of pesky chaneques… www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Pumpkin Seeds – Tyler Downs 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Fast paced occult detective noir brimming with mystery, excellent world-building, & characters I love... replete with occult critters, demons, ghosts, reanimation, gruesome murders we need more from this world! review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Going To The Six – A.C. Hessenauer 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Water Horror? I let the lake in & I’m so happy I did! This is my first Hessenauer book & what a great way to start. I love a good ocean/lake/water horror: this one was that! ominous and eerie... review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones 5/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 Once again Stephen Graham Jones doesn’t disappoint! This follow up to My Heart Is A Chainsaw delivers in all the best possible ways... his horror movie knowledge is epic & intimidating... full review at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚

Perverts – Mac Crane 2/5⭐ 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆 I do ❤️ short story collections, unfortunately more of these didn’t really land for me than did... focuses on themes of shame, desire, identity, parental trauma, much of which is told through allegorical whimsy or surrealism... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 💙📚