From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first ever authorized retelling of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959). A Haunting on the Hill (Mulholland Books, 2023) is a startlingly contemporary and frighteningly vivid take on one of the most well-known haunted house novels of the twentieth century. A Haunting on the Hill follows Holly, a playwright turnedRead More
A Polarizing, Experimental Horror Book: We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer Review
Despite us being firmly being into December, I still have a few horror books on my to-read list that I am working through, and We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer came up on my library holds list. I listened to the audiobook, as I enjoy being able to yell at characters in a good hauntedRead More
The Successor to House of Leaves: We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
If you’re looking for a haunted house story to really get under your skin, We Used to Live Here is for you. It’s a slow build, but by the end, it was the kind of story that had me seeing things in the shadows of my room at night. We follow Eve, who has justRead More
This Queer Horror Book Will Haunt You: Model Home by Rivers Solomon
This was my first Rivers Solomon book, and from the first page, I understood why I’d heard such good things about them. Here are the opening lines: “Maybe my mother is God, and that’s why nothing I do pleases her. Maybe my mother is God, and that’s why even though she’s never once saved me,Read More
A Gory Graphic Novel to Kick Off Sapphic Spooky Season: A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
As October approaches, consider adding sapphic graphic novel A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll (they/them) (previously credited as Emily Carroll) to your TBR. Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Comics, A Guest in the House follows Abby, an unassuming small-town woman who has just gotten married to David, a recently widowed dentist, and isRead More
A House Haunted by Fascism: Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I feel so conflicted about Tell Me I’m Worthless, because it’s one the most thought-provoking and memorable horror books I’ve ever read. The sections I liked were captivating, and in the first chapter, this felt like a new favourite book. But there were alsoRead More
A Genre-Bending Haunted Bookstore Story: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I kept hearing people rave about this book when it was new. I heard it was a cozy read about someone working in a bookstore haunted by the ghost of a customer. So imagine my surprise when the book begins with the main characterRead More
The Official Sapphic Sequel to Haunting of Hill House: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! To say I went into this with high expectations would be an understatement. As soon as I heard there was an official sapphic The Haunting of Hill House sequel coming out, it became my most anticipated book release of the year. I am firmlyRead More
Ambitious, Brutal, and Brilliant Trans Sapphic Horror: Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I’ve been having a good run with horror lately, and Alison Rumfitt’s stunning work of trans horror Tell Me I’m Worthless kept that streak up. The pull quote on the front cover advertises it as “ambitious, brutal, and brilliant,” and I think that’s a good starting point forRead More
Meagan Kimberly reviews White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link It’s hard to summarize Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching, as this is a novel less with plot and more with vibes. But to the best of my ability, a young girl, Miranda, develops an eating disorder called pica, where she eats and hungers for things that areRead More