Welcome back!
We’ve reached November, but I’m still going to sneak in some spooky reading suggestions. This time, we have an anthology, some nonfiction, and a witchy romance.
Have any recs to share? Leave them in the comments!
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A Witch’s Entanglement
What an atmospheric cover! If you’re looking for a unique witchy romance that taps into a sense of place, check this one out.
It’s early fall, 1975. The war is over, ABBA recently released their spectacular third studio album, and Gretchen Marigold is having the time of her life.
Making her way lovingly through the wanna-be witches who live alongside real magic users in her coven, Gretch is leaving a trail of broken hearts but satisfied lovers in her wake. Her life in the small town of Starbridge, Massachusetts is fun, carefree, and enchantingly delicious.
Across town, rushing to a lecture on the Religions of Precolonial Mexico, Jace’s life is the opposite of carefree. Though she too is a witch, and a far more powerful one at that, she’s less than two semesters away from finishing her PhD at Wellesley College, and her schedule is jam-packed. As a black woman in academia, she has to work twice as hard for half the credit. As an ambitious woman with goals of helping others like her gain access to a quality education, Jace works three times as hard.
When these two very different witches meet, their opposing viewpoints and attitudes towards magic proves eruptive. In more ways than one.
But just as their unrelenting attraction towards each other begins to blossom into something deeper, a charismatic and thoughtful visitor comes to town and everything changes.
Is the passion between Jace and Gretchen enough to supersede their differences, or will they be torn apart by the opinions of others and the shadows of their past?
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Love Never Dies
Sarah and I have talked about the rise of horror romance and how both horror and romance feel like two sides of the same coin.
A romance editor looks for love where you’d least expect it—and discovers what our favorite horror films can tell us about sex, society, and ourselves
If Sinners and the 1999 cult classic The Mummy taught Emma Cole anything in the year she spent bingeing scary movies, it’s that we love to swoon, sweat, and scream. We seem to crave the uncanny and the transgressive. Emma would know: her day job as a Harlequin book editor revolves around steamy stories that ruffle feathers and rip bodices. In Love Never Dies, she shows how our favorite horror films flirt with familiar tropes and themes to give us romantic subplots that are just as spinetingling.
Cole takes readers behind the scenes of films like Tod Browning’s Dracula and Josh Ruben’s Heart Eyes, exploring how and why movies blur the lines of horror and romance.
The books dives into:
– The “Dark Moment” and how it signals an HEA (Happily Ever After)
– Why not having a lover (spoiler alert) saved Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode in Halloween
– Rosemary’s Baby, Interview with the Vampire, and Gothic horror’s comeback
– How romance, especially monster romance, is often a stand-in for uncomfortable truthsFrom vampires and monsters to slashers and psychological thrillers, Love Never Dies explores the enthralling nature of horror romance films that are full of heart. It’s just that sometimes, those hearts are on the outside.
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Something Followed Us Home
Atmospheric horror reading doesn’t have to end just because October is over!
An instant USA TODAY bestseller! • A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2026 • 2026 International Latino Book Awards Gold Medal Winner for Best Collection of Short Stories—English
“Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any weird/lit/horror fan.” —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts
Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with this groundbreaking anthology, edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Cynthia Pelayo, where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.
Something followed us home. It crawled in with our prayers, slipped into our beds, watched from mirrors, waited in water, and learned our names.
Gathering chilling work from some of today’s most acclaimed Latiné voices, this horror anthology moves through haunted households, brutal landscapes, sacred spaces turned dangerous, and bodies claimed by forces both ancient and intimate. The dead murmur behind locked doors. Bones rebuild themselves under merciless suns. Love becomes a doorway for demonic hunger. Blood, devotion, and memory intertwine as the past presses back with teeth.
Something Followed Us Home is an unnerving, visceral, and impossible-to-shake collection that proves that what is carried forward does not remain quiet, and what follows us rarely leaves without taking something in return.
Featuring stories Agustina Bazterrica, Isabel Cañas, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Zoraida Córdova, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Mariana Enriquez, Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, Xochitl Gonzalez, Leopoldo Goût, Ananda Lima, Juan Martinez, Mónica Ojeda, Daniel José Older, Cynthia Pelayo, Lilliam Rivera, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, Alex Segura
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Weird Medieval Guys
Pick this one up for its quirkiness and humor, and not for any in-depth medieval history.
Live, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys!
Explore what your medieval life would have been through a choose-your-own-adventure full of quizzes, how-to guides, diagrams and flow charts that takes you from your birth to your gruesome end, revealing your patron saint, the fate of your love life and the trials and tribulations you faced along the way.
Then, discover everything you need to know to survive the natural world, from stripping naked to survive a wolf attack, decoding the signficance of birds visiting your sickbed and brewing love potions all while learning about the magical gemstones found in the heads of toads, horrifying basilisks and saintly hounds – all illustrated with the very best ancient drawings of beasts, birds, fishes and serpents from all four corners of God’s creation, drawn by people who definitely saw these creatures with their very own eyes and lived to tell the tale.
Chock full of hilarious, mad and bad advice for surviving and thriving on the mortal plane, this complete guide to life in the dark ages is guaranteed to make you laugh.
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