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October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Haunted USA by Heather Alexander + Sam Kalda

October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites: Haunted USA by Heather Alexander + Sam Kalda

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Haunted USA by Heather Alexander, Sam Kalda, blue/gray/black cover featuring a skull riding a convertible with around him a moose/light house/mothman
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).
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ A Girl Walks Into the Forest by Madeleine Roux

First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ A Girl Walks Into the Forest by Madeleine Roux

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A Girl Walks Into the Forest by Madeleine Roux, red cover with a girl's face on it with her blond hair surrounding her face and gouges marring her face
I am wrapped from head to foot in tassels and gray rabbit’s fur on the day I depart to meet my husband. Somehow, despite the care taken to protect me, my hands are still terribly cold.
Arylik -my village, my home- sits naked and wind-whipped between Lake Temtol and Lake Tarlii. The people of Arylik believe that long ago, at the sheared edge of memories and song, the giant siblings of myth, Temtol and Tarlii, chose this place to lie down and rest after a long journey across the steppe. But they never left, their sleep becoming death, their bodies shaping the lakes and the landscape.