Browsed by Category: October Horror Mystery Month Fest
Every year I hold October Horror Mystery Month Fest with a new spooky book each day. So far we had themes like Scary Covers, Recommendations (manga/normal), Haunted Locations. Each year I try to cook up a new theme!
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: The Hotel by Daisy Johnson
Read this if you like:Interconnecting stories, Ghosts that will terrify you, Hotel/Motels with spooky things going on, Ominous sentences, Places that hunger, Multiple POV, Weirdness.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: A Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop by Christine Schiefer, Em Schulz
Read this if you like: Travel/Road Trips, (True) Crime, Murder, Ghosts, Drinks and food (Wine and Ice Cream with spookies), Haunted Houses, Creepy People, Mysterious Cases, History, Horror Non-Fiction, Fun Illustrations, Spooky Tales.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: The Family Experiment by John Marrs
Read this if you like: Multiple POV, Many many twists and turns, Things all connecting together, Reality Shows, Virtual Worlds, Mystery, Secrets, Social Media posts.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Read this if you like: Dark shadowy figures, Unreliable narrators, Art drawn by kids with spooky things, Scary things going bump in the night, A dash of romance, Ghosts, A fabulous mystery.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Stinetinglers #3 by R.L. Stine
Read this if you like: Short Stories, Dreams (and making it out of them), R.L. Stine, Treehouses, Magician skills going wrong, Being terrified, Werewolves, Zombies, Illustrations, Scary Things, Bad Endings.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Haunted USA by Heather Alexander + Sam Kalda
Read this if you like:: Travel, Amazing illustrations, Spooky Tales, Finding out what haunts each state, Urban Legends, Super spooky ghosts (that one in the ballroom terrified me), Monsters, Cryptids (like our boy Mothman).
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Credenza by Wendy Dalrymple
Read this if you like: Furniture (but with something extra), Creepy Shadows and Dreams, Trusting No One, Gore (at least in the end), Fantastic revelations that will make you gasp, Many twists and Turns, Great MC.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: The Wandering Hour by Zack Loran Clark
Read this if you like: Urban legends, Weird Weather (and lots of fog), Connecting short stories in between the main story, Cryptids, Magic, Friendship, Illustrations that will scary you to death, Bonus extras that make the story even more complete and fun/terrifying.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Ghost Camera by Darcy Coates
Read this if you like: Short stories that will terrify you to the bone (and beyond), birds, lighthouses and competitions 😉 with a layer of vengeance, creatures that stalk the characters, nostalgia with a bit of nope, to be haunted, to go WTF many times over, not sleeping.
October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ Cursed Objects That Will Kill You ~ Day 31: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
