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69: A Short Novel of Cosmic Terror

I've shared on my Instagram account that for years, I've struggled with depression. Until about a year and a half ago, I had been in a reading slump, rut, dark bottomless pit that had lasted for years. I just didn't get enjoyment from reading like I once did. This was frustrating because I've been a voracious reader for most of my life. I knew that I enjoyed reading, KNEW it, but I couldn't make myself love it...

What if it started raining, and then it never stopped? 

Ever.

Teddy has to figure out how to survive because that is exactly what happens in The Conqueror Worms. While Teddy is trying to figure out the current state of the world, Kevin is doing the same hundreds of miles away. When both stories collide, we watch elderly widower Teddy and brave young Kevin, around Teddy’s mountain home as they try to figure out what to do in a post-apocalyptic world being swallowed by floods and other...

Top 10 Books to Add to your October TBR

By: Ashley aka @bookishmommy

Okay, guys, the best time of year is HERE: FALL! Here are 10 books that will creep you out in October. Set the mood! Light those candles! Hex someone!!!

1. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (not pictured) A vampire story - unsettling and scary.

2. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge - Can the boys of 1963 survive October Boy on...

THERE ARE ORANGE LEAVES ON THE GROUND PEOPLE! You know what that means, right? That means it is that spooky time of year that always makes me want to read classic horror, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein! It’s the perfect book to get you into that scary mindset. What’s scary and amazing about Frankenstein is that Mary Shelley wrote it when she was eighteen years old and it was published when she was twenty. That’s right! That classic horror we all love so much was written by a teenager. When it was first published it was...

Goodreads synopsis: Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.

One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and...