Five books checked off the 50 best horror challenge! And several other goodies.🩸📚💙

This was the best, most horrible, awful book I have ever read. I am not okay 😭 💙📚🩸

OMG I love these. Snagging right now!

I started doing these in 2020. I think I managed to do the whole 61 days once. 🤪 Some years I barely make it past the cover card but it's always fun.

May was fun 😁 📚💙

Not for the faint of heart. Read the warnings. But man, what a ride! Scared the pants off me 😁 🩸📚💙

120 Murders is an anthology of dark fiction inspired by alternative music with stories by Paul Tremblay, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Josh Malerman, and many more, and you can BUY not just license the ebook at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/120-murders-...

Library haul!! I am loving these Marvel crime novels!! Just finished @alexsegura.com Daredevil novel - was damn good! Next is @authorlisajewell5.bsky.social Jessica Jones , and then wait until September for S.A. Cosby's Luke Cage! Anyone else reading these?? 💙📚 #Marvel

pangobooks.com/bookstore/tr... I started a Pango bookstore. Might as well share the wealth before I'm buried in books (it could happen) 💙📚 #booksellers #pango

April was dark and creepy. Loved it!! Only really traumatized myself once ( Tender is the Flesh 😱) 🩸📚💙 #storygraph

Tomorrow is May Day, and we all have an appointment with The Wicker Man. Starts 9pm ET. Free to stream on Tubi. Not sure which cut is there, so feel free to watch in whatever format feels best to you. #FolkHorrorFriday

I am an expert at this!

Yep! ♥️ Looking forward to it.

Once again, it's a Tuesday, and that means there are many good books being published today. Buy or borrow one and it will be an automatic distraction from the daily horrors.

RIP Gerry Conway. You are a LEGEND. Spider-Man wouldn’t be who he is WITHOUT you…we are all better off with the Art (writing) you left us with.

Taking a break from the horror challenge. Have to wash my brain after that last one I'm already mad in love with this. She had me at Sapphic Moby-dick in space ! 😍 💙📚

www.briankeene.com/womeninhorro... This is a list to keep an eye on!! 🩸📚💙

Replaced a lot of doomscrolling with reading and I’ve already read more books than all of last year. I highly recommend

Well, that's 2 hours I'll never get back. Not for the faint of heart. Also I think I'm going vegan for awhile 😱 🩸📚💙 #bookchallenge 34/50

Spending time with @paultremblay.bsky.social ! This book from my library is very well loved ( and had quite a wait list) Just getting into it, but did anyone else find the little sister a bit suss? Could be my own little sister issues 🤔 Maybe I'll apologize to her later. 🩸📚💙 #bookchallenge

I've been thinking about this a lot as I get ready to jet off to an adventure. "Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky." —Alan Moore

Ohhhh is it Christmas already??

@jennlyons.bsky.social This was amazing!! I hardly put it down from start to finish. For fans of The Green Knight, Swamp thing, any kind of nature fighting back tale - highly recommend! 📚💙

Just finished The Bookshop Below @georgiasummers.bsky.social Not sure if I can explain - but some of you will understand. This book took me to the same place, made me feel the same way as The Magicians @levgrossman.com It's not even about the plot, just how I felt. A keeper for sure. 💙📚

This is definitely a case of should have read the book before watching the movie. The movie was ok. The book is much better. The main character was still Sandra Bullock in my head 😜 50 best horror challenge 31/50 📚💙 #bookchallenge

Happy book birthday to my haunted houses! 🏚️🔥 I'm so thrilled The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own is available now! I can't believe I have a second collection out in the world! 😱🦇🖤

This book is utterly gorgeous. I think they made it that way so you'd think twice about chucking it out a high window when you reached the end. ( hopefully the sequel will be worth this pain!) 💙📚

The best isolated thrillers understand something about people: take away the exits and the truth comes out fast I made a list of 9 books that trap you with the characters — and the settings are half the horror kristenvannest.com/2026/04/12/i... #BookSky #ThrillerBooks #IsolatedThrillers

"May you be consumed as a coal upon the hearth. May you dry up as water in a pail. May you become as small as a linseed grain, and much smaller than the hip bone of an itch-mite, and may you become so small that you become nothing." Inamorata - Ava Reid 💙📚 #bookquote

Was an excellent read! This one will stay with you. The Kindle edition however is so poorly edited I almost dnf'd it. There are typos, missing or wrong words on nearly every page. Opt for a print version if you can find one. 🩸📚💙 #bookchallenge

It's my birthday today! The best gift for an artist is sharing their work! Or if you feel like it, consider supporting my Patreon! www.patreon.com/thistlearts www.etsy.com/shop/thistleartsstudio #art #fanart #mmart #mmromance #transmascartist #queerart

50 best horror book challenge progress report: Just finished Lunar Park ( @breteastonellis.bsky.social has a very scary mind) This brings my total read to 30/50 Up next is The Dark Valley by Joe Donnelly 🩸📚💙 #bookchallenge

Whoo hoo!!

" Black Tom smiled faintly but shook his head. " Every time I was around them, they acted like I was a monster. So I said goddammit, I'll be the worst monster you ever saw!" The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle I have goosebumps - not bad for a book you can read in an hour. 🩸📚💙 #bookquote

"Cats all know they're smarter than you are , and they're smug as hell about it.( This is not to say that there aren't kind & loyal & humble cats out there. There probably are. I'm just saying that even the nicest cat in the world thinks it's funny when you fall down the stairs.) 💙📚 #bookquote

" It is a sorrow to poisoners everywhere that very few substances dissolve on contact with meat." Hemlock and Silver T Kingfisher 📚💙 #bookquote

Today was library day. A new release and 4 more for the 50 best horror challenge!! 🩸📚💙 #libraryhaul #bookchallenge

" The problem with all numinous things is that you can't just take somebody's word about them, especially the ones you're warned away from. You HAVE to look at them, eventually,to know they're really there. You look at them even though you know it's not a good idea too. You can't not "🩸📚💙#bookquote

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BOTM arrived today. So, after The Only Good Indians, which I will probably finish in another hour or so, do I lighten up or go darker? Thoughts? 💙📚 #botm

This has been on my TBR since before I started the 50 best horror books challenge. I was number 8 in line on my library holds queue- I'm pretty sure @sgj.bsky.social is required reading around here (KS). Anyway - it's my turn! Pretty excited to jump in! 💙📚🩸#bookchallenge

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Not a bad month 💙📚 #storygraph

open.substack.com/pub/pdsalter... Another REALLY good newsletter! 💙📚🩸

fs.blog/the-antilibr... The Antilibrary: The Hidden Value of Unread Books The legendary Italian writer Umberto Eco had over 50,000 books in his private library. When asked why so many, he had this to say: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy..."

open.spotify.com/playlist/6GW... A playlist for the times. 70+ versions of War Pigs. What? I like this song. #warpigs #musicsky #playlist

#thewritewomen In March, post book by a female author everyday • must be something you've read • must be something you've enjoyed or learned something from 💙📚 #books #authors #bookchallenge #womenshistorymonth Day 31 - last one! The House of Dead Maids by Claire B. Dunkle

It's library day!! 📚💙 #libraryhaul