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Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castleis a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Cora Zeng cleans up the worst of Chinatown’s crimes. Nothing is more devastating than the moment she watched her sister, Delilah, get pushed in front of a train—just after the killer screamed two words: “bat eater.”

Now, she’s haunted—not by the blood she washes away, but by the subway’s germs, phantom bite marks, and something watching her in her apartment. Ignoring her aunt’s warnings about the Hungry Ghost Festival only makes it worse, especially as more bat carcasses show up at crime scenes—and the victims are all East Asian women like Delilah.

Cora is unravelling—and soon discovers you really can’t ignore hungry ghosts.

📚For fans of: The Haunting of Hill House–style psychological horror, Hungry Ghost folklore, and visceral pandemic‑era dread.

⚠️Trigger warnings: Graphic violence, gore, racially motivated crimes against Asian women, grief, trauma, contagious phobia, unreliable perception of reality.

Goodreads rating: 4.14/5 average

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From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a psychologically gripping horror that doubles as sharp social commentary. The story follows four American Indian men—haunted by a tragic childhood event—who are stalked years later by a vengeful entity. As their cultural roots and the traditions they abandoned collide in violent retribution, identity—and survival—become equally uncertain.

📚 For fans of: Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, Tommy Orange, and immersive, socially aware horror rooted in Indigenous voices

⚠️ Trigger warnings: Graphic violence (especially involving animals), revenge horror, trauma, Indigenous cultural themes, environmental and identity tensions, intense psychological distress.

Goodreads rating: 3.69

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❄️ Heads up, horror readers! ❄️

Our November and December horror book club meetings fall on holidays this year.

So we’re doing something a little different...

📖 Take the long winter months to tackle the epic, mind-bending horror novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
It’s big, it’s weird, it’s unforgettable—and we’ll gather to unravel it together in January!

When House of Leaves first circulated in scattered photocopies, no one foresaw its cult legacy. Now fully realized in print—with colored words, vertical footnotes, and multiple appendices—the story remains as disorienting as ever. At its core: photojournalist Will Navidson, his companion Karen Green, and their children move into a home that grows impossibly larger on the inside. Hidden darkness, a hallway that defies physics, and grotesque echoes consume their family—and the manuscript’s editor, Johnny Truant. This is metafictional horror made labyrinthine.

📚 For fans of: Experimental horror, Ergodic literature, The eerie architecture of Annihilation or the mind‑melting surrealism of House of Leaves itself.

⚠️ Trigger warnings: Psychological dread, claustrophobia, disintegrating reality, missing children, unstable narrators, disorienting layout.

Goodreads rating: 4.09/5

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This book has interesting visual nuances. So, it must be read with your eyeballs.