Happy Hallowe'en - time for the traditional month-end reading round up as I say farewell #SpooktasticReads and prepare for #ScifiMonth!

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Redux: spooky season

My October plans were disrupted by high winds (thanks Amy) and a work trip to London for my company’s tenth birthday celebration. I’ve spent most of the month being surprised it’s…

Today's #SpooktasticReads prompt is creepy forest: I'm returning to the Elmever to finally review Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest

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The Butcher of the Forest

When the tyrant who rules your land with an iron grip demands you revisit your worst nightmare to save his children, you obey. Knowing what they face in a dark, haunted land, you obey. Knowing what…

This #SpooktasticReads I'm rereading The Time Of The Dark by Barbara Hambly and I've got 10 good reasons you should too

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Pitch Black: returning to Darwath

Is Barbara Hambly’s The Time of the Dark the perfect portal fantasy for Spooktastic Reads? Probably. A PhD student and a biker artist are pulled across the Void into Darwath, where the Dark i…

Why yes, I am taking the #SpooktasticReads prompts out of order. Will you sail the seven seas in search of ghosts with me?

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Ghost Ships

This Spooktastic Reads prompt is where this year’s Wyrd & Wonder maritime fantasy theme meets the atmospheric thrills of spooky season. I’ve always loved tales of ghost ships, so to…

Sam K Horton's wild, atmospheric debut of Cornish magic and parallel worlds is a dark, immersive delight. In which I enthuse about Gorse #SpooktasticReads

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Gorse

Lord Pelagius Hunt is the moor’s Keeper, but he is losing the villagers of Mirecoombe to its preacher’s increasingly fiery faith. A series of unnatural deaths helps Cleaver convert the …

How do you keep the dead from rising? Become the town undertakers and make sure they stay dead, dammit.

Today's pick for #SpooktasticReads is Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan, a grisly matriarchal monster hunting charmer

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Bless Your Heart

Maybe it’s inevitable that a family of female undertakers would be outsiders in a small Texan town, but the Evans gals have more reasons than their neighbours realise to stay aloof. Like their habi…

There’s no better excuse than #SpooktasticReads for curling up with Juliet McKenna’s Green Man series (not least as there’s often a new volume about this time of year). Today, I’m catching up with books 5 and 6: The Green Man’s Gift / Quarry

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Series catch-up: The Green Man

Dan Mackmain might prefer a quiet life, but when you’re the man who’s known to solve supernatural problems you don’t get to put your feet up. When his allies bring a problem to hi…

Spooktastic TBR ⋆ Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

Spooktastic Reads is hosted by A Dance With Books, The Book Nook, Dear Geek Place, Jorie Loves a Story, and There’s Always Room for One More. Spooktastic Reads is a companion event to Wyrd & Wonder, where fantasy meets spooky...

Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

Grab a blanket, put on a light (maybe check the doors and windows are properly closed) - it's only a month until we venture into the darker side of fantasy for some #SpooktasticReads.

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Spooktastic Reads is on the way

Summer has packed its bags. With the full moon waning, the equinox is nearly at hand. As the shadows lengthen each evening, there’s plenty of opportunity to curl up with a book and a blanket …

For #SpooktasticReads we devise a prompt a day - but I've not done anything with them each day, so today I'm tackling them all at once with a raft of recommended backlist and recent reads to suit the themes

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Spooktastic Reads: tag edition

I deleted my Instagram account earlier this year as part of a social media cleanse. I’ve never made particularly good use of it, so it became something I felt unnecessarily guilty about: I ou…