THE HAUNTING OF HENDERSON CLOSE: Catherine Cavendish   PRETTY MARYS ALL IN A ROW: Gwendolyn Kiste   BLACK WINGS: Megan Hart  TWIN LAKES THE AUTUMN FIRES : (DNF) Melissa Lason & Michelle Garza   A POCKETFUL OF CROWS: Joanne M Harris   THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY  …

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand My rating: 2 of 5 stars I think this might be my last Christmassy read for this year. I'm glad that I read it right after finishing A Christmas Carol , because the worldbuilding for this story is adapted from this well-known clas…

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well, this is the next Christmassy story I decided to read. It's a Dickens classic I'm very familiar with, but have never actually read. We all know how the story goes: Ebenezer Scrooge is a horrid, lonely old…

Hark! The Herald Angels Scream by Christopher Golden My rating: 3 of 5 stars This anthology continues my dark Christmassy reads binge. 😈🎄 ABSINTHE & ANGELS by Kelley Armstrong: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ava and Michael just want to spend a romantic, snowy Christmas together. Instead, th…

Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom My rating: 5 of 5 stars It's December, so I wanted to read a Christmasy story. And you can't get more Christmas than the Yule Lord himself, Krampus. 😈 The funny thing about this book is that I actually started reading it last year, but af…

I Am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland My rating: 5 of 5 stars I want to start by saying that I love the simplicity of this cover. It's as sharp as the poems inside, and captures the subject matter within perfectly. I've been watching horror movies since I was ver…

Time Terror by Christopher Pike My rating: 5 of 5 stars With a cover like that, of course I was interested in checking this out. And I didn't even care about not reading any of the books that came before. Fifteen of them! LOL. Cindy, Sally, Adam, Watch and Bryce are friends …

The Fireman by Joe Hill My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book I've been meaning to read for a while, and I'm really glad I finally did. Harper is a school nurse when the world starts burning. A mysterious spore everyone calls Dragonscale starts infecting people and civi…

The Brilliant Dr. Wogan by R.A. Montgomery My rating: 5 of 5 stars I used to love reading Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was a kid. I borrowed them from the school library and from the public library. I couldn't get enough! So it was awesome to find a few during ou…

Welcome To Camp Slither by R.L. Stine My rating: 5 of 5 stars During our thrift store adventures, we've been lucky enough to find a bunch of Goosebumps books, and this one is part of the Horrorland collection. I used to read Goosebumps to my daughter when she was in prima…

Grandma Mazur is a widow . . . again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen . . . well, the waiting's over.  It's a sad day, but if she can'…

Everyone but Sophia and Cyrus were going to die. They were all goners well before they knew it. And they certainly thought whatever was happening, they were helping others and saving the world doing it. Samantha was only fourteen and looking for what every fourteen-year-old looks fo…

Dying for an Invitation by Theresa Braun My rating: 3 of 5 stars I picked up a free copy of this novelette for my Paperwhite earlier this year. And since my brain is getting totally consumed by NaNoWriMo at the moment, I've hardly had any reading time. So, I decided to read …

The Unbeliever & The Intruder by Morgan K. Tanner My rating: 5 of 5 stars By now, I know that getting stuck into a Short Sharp Shocks! book means I'm going to lose myself in a single sitting of awesome, dark storytelling. Add the fact that this author knows how to write gor…

Halloween Fiend by C.V. Hunt My rating: 2 of 5 stars I've had this book on my Paperwhite for months, but I put it aside on purpose so I could read it this Halloween. And I love that cover. 🎃 Well, Halloween is here! The town of Strang is mostly abandoned but still has a…

Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion #6 by Gerard Way My rating: 5 of 5 stars OMFG. This issue was action-packed, full of explosions and bad guys wanting to mess things up. And by messing up, I mean that after escaping from a secret prison, all they want to do is destroy the city. T…

DIRTY PAWS by Dean M. Drinkel My rating: 5 of 5 stars By now I know that reading a Short Sharp Shocks! story means I'm in for a horror treat. And the same goes here. Maxime and Léa are a strange couple who are in Paris on business . They're always fighting, but after an…

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick My rating: 5 of 5 stars I remember watching and really enjoying the movie Hugo several years ago. It was a fun, historical adventure with heart and wonder. It also featured A Trip to the Moon , which is a silent film I've always lo…

Encampment by the Gorge by Zachary Ashford My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, I just read another great addition to the Short Sharp Shocks! series. This time, there were two stories. Although they're different, they both share the same subgenre. The Encampment By The Gorge is …