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Live Now! The Howls from the Scene of the Crime Kickstarter
Upcoming Book Club Reads
- “An interesting read of the lauded first true crime novel.” – @History_Bot
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- “A classic for a reason.” – @History_Bot
BELOVED by Toni Morrison
- “One of the best ghost stories I’ve ever read, written with heart and skill.” – @thoughtsupnorth
SUMMER SONS by Lee Mandelo
- “A sultry, sweaty, engine-revving exploration of queerness, horror, and the history of the American South.” – @thoughtsupnorth
- “A queer, creepy, trauma packed southern gothic that I could not put down.” – @Jillyspins
- “Chaotic bisexual energy in a southern gothic meets dark academia meets dirtbag irresponsibility setting.” – @perkyanda
IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado
- “Reading this is like holding someone elseās beating heart in your hands. Itās intense, itās terrifying, and intimate.” – Kay Popple
- “A haunting memoir that is as frightening as it is creative.” – @Cryptid
- “It is a book I will be recommending for the rest of my life.” – @larainbowllama
Anthology News
Howls from the Scene of the Crime Kickstarter!
A death row cell that recounts the dark stories of its inmates. An informant who consumes shards of crystallized skulls to see the past. A world where to speak of the dead is a violation of an unjust societyās rules. Heists, drugs, cults, detectives, murder, monsters, revenge. HOWL Society Press invites you to commit yourselfā¦
Thank You, and a Major Announcement
That’s a wrap on our Kickstarter! Thank you to everyone for helping us get over the finish line. We hope you’ve enjoyed it! Some Highlights of the Road So Far… Even our own membership has been pretty blown away by our updates, so if you missed any, please take a look back! Some of theā¦
40% Funded, and Announcing a Partner Campaign!
To everyone whoās already backed Howls From the Wreckage, THANK YOU! With Kickstarterās āProject We Loveā label and all of the early support, weāre already at the 40% mark for reaching our initial goal! The contributors are thrilled, HOWLS members are howling in excitement, and weāre excited to keep rolling right along! Meanwhile, weāre devotingā¦
Recent Reviews
Women in Horror 2025 – Howls Book Club Year In Review
Not only is March Womenās History Month, but itās also Women in Horror Month! HOWLS Year in Review For Women in Horror Month 2025, we want to highlight authors weāve read over the last year, and focus on several books members of HOWLS really loved. The books by women we read over the last yearā¦
The 2022 HOWLS Awards
by Joseph Andre Thomas (@bunttriple) Theyāre (finally) hereāthe HOWL Society Best of 2022 Awards. Yes, the new year has come and gone long ago (along, apparently, with any semblance of my commitments and responsibilities). But at long last the hammer has struck the anvil, and the winners have been chosen. HOWLS members voted on theirā¦
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
by Christopher OāHalloran (@Burgleinfernal) Poll the average HOWLer and you’ll get the same opinion: the world is a dumpster fire. Many find it hard to point at the marvels around us without being overwhelmed by the constant injustices going on every day. Whether thatās the mistreatment of minority populations by both authority figures and fellowā¦
Recent Blogs
13 Questions with Hiron Ennes
HOWLS read Hiron Ennes’s debut novel, LEECH, earlier this year as part of our weekly Book Club. It scratched our gothic itch with its rich prose, shadowy world, dark mystery, and compelling characters. One of our members called the setting a “steampunk Switzerland.” Another said “I would definitely read a sequel of this, or atā¦
6 Horror Books That were adapted to Musicals
Okay, But Why are They Singing? By Amanda Nevada Demel I like horror. I like theatre. I like musicals. Surprising, isnāt it? Hereās a category of horror texts that have been adapted into stage musicals. Horror Books that Were Adapted into Musicals: Honorable Mention goes to American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis! 1. Dr. Jekyllā¦
5 Books with Lovecraftian Cityscapes from RSL
Cities that Shriek: (Un)real Geographies By RSL Every author brings with them the world theyāre born in, but some authors cannot shy away from the depth of feeling and connection they have to space and place, some who could not be a writer were it not for the way they capture the twist and turnsā¦
Book Club Nominees
A List of Books for the Fall Season from CB Jones
HOWLS member CB Jones gives us a list of horror books to tide us through the fall season, from authors Stephen King, Carissa Orlando, Richard Laymon, Ronald Mali and Rohan O’Grady.
4 Books About the Nuclear Apocalypse
The Missiles Are Flying! HOWLS member Franklin Phillips gives us a list of 4 books highlighting the horror of a nuclear war.
Vampires Will Never Hurt You. Probably. Maybe.
6 Books for Your TBR! Scary vampires are alive — er, unalive — and well, terrifying readers just like great-granddaddy of horror fiction Bram Stoker used to. HOWL Society member @Amber gives us a list of vampire books, of the non-sparkly variety, for your To Be Read list. Our book club will be reading oneā¦
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