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by @auntiemaim, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for February 2024's "New Year, New You" category Happy 2024! The year has barely started and we’re already inundated with ads and emails from every website we’ve ever visited, encouraging us to turn over a new leaf with the beginning of the calendar year. Although the fresh… Continue reading 5 Horror Books about Body Doubles to Make You Look Twice

by Emily C. Hughes, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for February 2024's "Many Words, Many Worlds" category One of my favorite narrative magic tricks is when an author tantalizes me with glimpses of worlds beyond the one where the main narrative takes place, or suggests a much larger cosmology beyond what we see on… Continue reading 5 Horror Books with Glimpses Into a Larger World

by @Kelas, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for February 2024's "Silver Screened" category I’ve been thinking a lot about adaptations lately and what makes them ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Does the spirit need to hold true to the book, or just character names as long as the new story is good? To that end, I’ve… Continue reading Read the Book First! 4 Horror Books That Inspired Terrifying Movies

by Amanda Nevada DeMel, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for January 2024's "Dramatic Dread" category It’s no secret that I love theatre. Give me the backstage drama, the final product, the history of the form, the ART. I love it all. While my soft spot is musicals, I love a good play too. There… Continue reading Theater of the Damned: 5 Horror Stage Plays

by C.J. Weiss, author of Secrets Gnaw at the Flesh, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for January 2024's "This Chill is Giving Me Chills" category I live in Texas, and a big reason why is because I hate cold weather (and I don’t want to pay a coastal tax). Mother Earth can give me… Continue reading 6 Horror Books to Keep You Cold this Winter

by @drthoss, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for January 2024's "My Body and Its Wants" category I'm obsessed with how trapped I am in my body. My keeper. It determines what I can eat, drink—what I can even think—and it can feed me with ills that I, the mind, don’t even want. And the… Continue reading 5 Gritty Body Horror Books

by TJ Price, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for December 2023's "Childhood's Hideous Echo" category Because it’s easy to gloss over the memory of an encounter with something slightly uncanny as a child’s fantasy, something that can’t possibly be true… but what if it was? What if, in fact, it still is? A Good… Continue reading 5 Books About Horrifying Childhoods

by @mob_writes, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for December 2023's "Bleak Midwinter" category An array of works underpinning the sharpness of deep winter—cold, bitter, and unforgiving. From a novella that inspired countless horror films to one of the goriest modern takes on vampires, these stories will set you shivering. Moon of the Crusted Snow… Continue reading 6 Horror Books to Keep You Up on Midwinter Nights

by @sunbeamdruid, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for December 2023's "The First of Us" category We often see works depicting the outcome of catastrophic events, but what happens as the event takes place? How does civilization fall to a disaster? How quickly do things crumble? World War Z by Max Brooks We survived the… Continue reading 5 Horror Books at the End of the World

by @spoonie.reads, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for June 2023's "We're Here, We're Queer, and There's Plenty to Fear" category Why? because i’m really fuckin’ gay, babes! okay, that’s not the only reason… queer horror holds a special place in my heart, because it captures (in my opinion) the very best of the horror… Continue reading 6 Queer Horror Books for Your TBR