As the old saying goes, April terrors bring May horrors! HOWLS is reading 3 fearsome thrillers as part of our book club, 2 featuring haunted, evil, bad houses, and one non-fiction historical book about robbing graves in the name of science. May 5: The Spite House by Johnny Compton The Spite House is our first… Continue reading HOWLS Book Club: 3 Books for May 2025
HOWL Society member @wytwavedarling assembled this list of haunted / bad house books. We vote for one of them to be part of our weekly Book Club discussion! House Calls: 4 Haunted / Bad House Books. Join our Discord to be part of the club. [M]ost scholarship conflates the terms ‘bad house’ and ‘haunted house,’… Continue reading HOWLS BOOK CLUB: House Calls – 4 Haunted / Bad House Books
It's April, and this month, like every month, we delight in literary horrors large and small. Prancing through flowers freshly blooming in graveyards; dancing in the rain that falls on our black parade. Here are the 4 freshly terrifying books we're reading this month! April 6: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo is our… Continue reading HOWLS Book Club: 4 Books for April 2025
Not only is March Women’s History Month, but it’s also Women in Horror Month! Jawbone by Monica OjedaNever Have I Ever by Isabel YapRouge by Mona AwadThe Reformation by Tananarive DueThe Hunger by Alma KatsuHangman by Shirley JacksonCome Closer by Sara GranThe Dead Hours of Night by Lisa TuttleA Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth… Continue reading Women in Horror 2025 – Howls Book Club Year In Review
by Leviathan15, curator of HOWLS Book Club nominees for July's "New Weird Heard Round The World" category Back in 2003, M. John Harrison kicked off a discussion* on his online message board with the following question: “The New Weird. Who does it? What is it? Is it even anything?... Should we just call it Pick’n’Mix… Continue reading Corkscrew Into These 6 Globetrotting New Weird Tales
by ghazal ghaffari (@ghazal) One of the most important books from Iran, and Hedayat’s magnum opus. This brilliant book is the literary manifestation of a fever dream. Hedayat leads us through the non-linear story of an unnamed narrator, plagued by death and murderous intentions. A wildly unconventional piece of literature, with subtle plays on the… Continue reading Boof-e Koor (The Blind Owl) by Sadegh Hedayat
by International HOWLers, curators of HOWLS Book Club nominees for December's "Olympics of Horror" category Who’s afraid of a little competition? Not the HOWL Society. Six nations have submitted horror tales written by their fellow citizens here to the Howlympic Village. But only one book will make it past the O-poll-ning Ceremony to win the… Continue reading 6 Horror Novels from Around the World
