We are reading Nuclear War: A Scenario this week. Horror non-fiction, of the atomic variety. I mean, if you want some existential scares, this is for you. Join our Discord for the discussion!

New on our site: 4 Books About the Nuclear Apocalypse, curated by HOWL member Franklin Philips! howlsociety.com/2025/09/27/4...

Vampires Will Never Hurt You. Probably. Maybe. – 6 Books for Your TBR! Scary vampires are alive -- er, unalive -- and well, terrifying readers just like great-granddaddy of horror fiction Bram Stoker used to. HOWL Society member @Amber gives us a list of vampire books, of the non-sparkly variety,…

This week we discuss 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧, by author, actress, director and feminist political organizer Amber Tamblyn! Join us on Discord as we read this poetic critique of victimhood and the media cycle.

Join us on Discord to discuss our book of the week: Piñata by artist, writer and filmmaker, Leopoldo Gout. What could be inside this carefully crafted sculpture, intended to be bludgeoned until it spills its treasures?  Find out! Thanks @lovngmindfulnss.bsky.social for the photo!

Only a few more hours to vote in HOWL's monthly poll and help decide what we'll be reading in August ...

Howls from the Dark Ages from P.L. McMillan (Editor), Solomon Forse (Editor) Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured scribe will show you ancient horrors lurking in castles, wild woodlands, haunted hamlets, and mysterious monasteries.

We have the pleasure hosting @comptonwrites, author of The Spite House and Devil Kills Devil, for a live Q&A session on our Discord this Sunday, June 8 at 11AM CT! Join us!

Happy #summerween! It's halfway to #halloween, so we're reading 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 by Christopher Golden, to get our good trick-or-treat terror on! It's 1984, and someone bad is coming to get the children. Head to our Discord to join the discussion! #horrorcommunity #horrorbookclub

HOWLS had the pleasure of conversing with Rachel Harrison after we read Black Sheep! We talk horror, writing, and her upcoming novel, Play Nice!

Pauline Chow, author of upcoming novel Chasing Moonflowers, pens an article about vampires in the Asian diaspora. Read on howlsociety.com! https://howlsociety.com/2025/05/16/let-her-feast-how-asian-female-vampires-subvert-self-sacrifice/

We interviewed Christopher O'Halloran (@burgleinfernal) About His Debut Novel, Pushing Daisy! howlsociety.com/2025/05/14/n...

Join us on Discord this week to discuss 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, the new book by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell. A new kind of haunted house story, bending genres, steeped in horror.

HOWLS Book Club: 3 Books for May 2025 As the old saying goes, April terrors bring May horrors! HOWLS is reading 3 fearsome thrillers as part of our book club, 2 featuring haunted, evil, bad houses, and one non-fiction… https://howlsociety.com/2025/05/05/howls-book-club-3-books-for-may-2025/

Horror Poetry Month ends with our last Stoker finalist interview, @sumikoska.bsky.social! howlsociety.com/2025/04/30/c...

Here is a list of 5 dark medical non-fiction books from our very own @jessicapeter.bsky.social! Join our Discord for a lively discussion! howlsociety.com/2025/04/29/h...

As part of our Horror Poetry Month series, we ask Bram Stoker Achievement in Poetry Finalist Pedro Iniguez 13 Questions @pedroiniguez.bsky.social #horrorlit #horrorpoetry #darkpoetry #horrorwriters howlsociety.com/2025/04/28/t...

House Calls! Here are 5 Haunted House / Bad House books for your TBR. Join our Discord to see which one we'll read! 1. Slade House by  2. The Forever House by   3. The House by the Cemetery by   4. House of Skin by  5. Malice House by howlsociety.com/2025/04/26/h...

As part of our Horror Poetry Month series, we ask Bram Stoker Achievement in Poetry Finalist L. Marie Wood 13 questions. Read on to hear from the author, screenwriter, and educator about her decades of experience writing Dark Poetry. @lmariewood.bsky.social #horror howlsociety.com/2025/04/25/h...

This week our book club sinks its teeth into The Bone Mother by @daviddemchuk.com. We really enjoyed his book Red X, so we thought we'd take a bite out of another one of his novels! Join us on Discord for the discussion!

As part of our Horror Poetry Month series, we ask Bram Stoker Achievement in Poetry Finalist Jamal Hodge 13 questions. https://howlsociety.com/2025/04/21/horror-hope-and-courage-13-questions-with-jamal-hodge/

In honor of National Poetry Month, we interviewed the prolific @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! Read on for a glimpse into her journey through the dark poetry space. HOWLS will be featuring all of the 2024 Bram Stoker Poetry Finalists so stay tuned! howlsociety.com/2025/04/12/l... #horrorlit

Join us on Discord this week to talk about Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, a nightmare-like meditation on shared trauma in a haunted village. #booksky #amreading #horrorlit #HOWLSociety #bookgroup #bookclub #horror #Mexicanlit

HOWLS Book Club: 4 Books for April 2025 It's April, and this month, like every month, we delight in literary horrors large and small. Prancing through flowers freshly blooming in graveyards; dancing in the rain that falls on our black parade. Here are the 4 freshly terrifying books we're reading…

Back for another month of HOWLS Book Club selections! Join us on Discord (link in BIO).  ✒ April 8: Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo  ✒ April 14: Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison  ✒ April 21: The Bone Mother by David Demchuk  ✒ April 28: Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Join us on Discord to discuss our Book of the Week: The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons. What if you lived next door to the haunted house?

It's Transgender Day of Visibility! So we thought we'd share some great books we've read by some absolutely terrifying transgender and nonbinary writers. Trans rights are human rights! howlsociety.com/2025/03/31/h...

Our lovely VP Jennifer has set up a GoFundMe for her baby cat Kona and his fight against FIP! Anything helps, even simply sharing this post ❤️

As Women In Horror Month draws to a close, we reflect on a year of reading some of the best, brightest, and most relevant horror writers of the past and present. Read Women In Horror ALL YEAR!!! howlsociety.com/2025/03/30/w...

Find us at Authorcon V! Scares that Care, we care! Meet us at our table in the Ballroom, where we have swag, books, some of the cool kids, and limited-edition hardbacks. Meet the editors of our upcoming anthology!

We had the pleasure of interviewing @authorplm.bsky.social for Women in Horror Month! We talk about her writing, her art, and her obsessions with mothman and the film Event Horizon. #booksky #horrorlit #womeninhorror #howlsociety #bootymothman #deadlanguages howlsociety.com/2025/03/27/p...

Join us on Discord while we discuss Hangsaman by the master of Gothic mystery & horror: Shirley Jackson. This psychological thriller delves into the mind of Natalie Waite—a college freshman grappling with isolation and identity. This unsettling read will have you questioning reality 😱📚 #horrorlit

We were lucky enough to interview Cynthia Gómez for Women in Horror Month! @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social We discuss her debut book, living in the Bay Area, writing revenge stories, and more! Check out the interview here: howlsociety.com/2025/03/20/1... #horrorlit #womeninhorror

Join us on Discord as we discuss The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Subversive, visceral book about a monster who is just a boy living on a little Scottish isle. #horrorlit #HowlSociety #horrorfiction #horrorbookclub #blueskyhorror #horrorreads #amreading #readersofbluesky #horrorbooks

We’re on Week 2 for our chonker of the month (600 pages), Our Share of the Night by Mariana Enriquez & translated by Megan McDowell. As the largest horror book club on the internet our discussion is lively as always. Join us if this vibes with you! Photo by @lovngmindfulnss.bsky.social #horrorbooks

We've got a Q-and-A coming up this week! Come by the discord to join the discussion!

I literally screeched when I opened my email and saw Howls from the Scene of the Crime is on the Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot. So thrilled to make it to this first step along with my co-editor in crime @timaeusbloom.bsky.social through @howlsociety.bsky.social !

Needing to escape reality? HOWL's February reading schedule is up, start dates listed below: 2/03: One's Company by Ashley Hutson 2/10: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez 2/24: The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks Grab a book and join the discussion in the discord!

We're still reading The Darkest Night: 22 Winter Horror Stories, but January plans are in place! Start dates & books: 1/06: Airframe by Michael Crichton 1/13: The Dead Hours of Night by Lisa Tuttle (2-week read) 1/27: Winterset Hollow by @thisone0verhere.bsky.social Come by Discord to join in!

This is happening. Literary agents and unagented writers from all genres, details will be posted next week. Writers — Polish those manuscripts and be ready to pitch on January 27th.

GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

We're trying to get in the habit of being more active, so... Here's the reading schedule for the rest of Dec. (start dates listed!): 12/10: Lure by @timmcgregor.bsky.social 12/16: Revelator by @darylwriterguy.bsky.social 12/23: The Darkest Night ed. by Lindy Ryan Join the discussion on discord!

We're so close to fully backed! Need another reason to? Pandora has a few for you! youtu.be/9IknnG2mV6A Dare you investigate? www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

A moment of silence for the birdie 🙏 It's flying peacefully in the blue sky while an anthropomorphic X tromps around a field rendered fallow and pockmarked by rampant, monstrous, $8 checkmarks.