Horror Stories to Get You Ready For Camp Fires and Halloween

by MK French

Who is ready for campfires and scary stories? The weather can't decide if it wants to be summer or fall, but these horror stories will get you ready for all things spooky that come up when the leaves begin to change and the weather chills.

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Review Round Up: 5 Books from my review pile backlog

by Donna Huber

I had two wonderful weeks off work and was able to read or listen to 11 books. A few of them were short Christmas stories that I listened to while wrapping presents or riding in the car. Most though were books from my review pile. I've already published some of those reviews, today I have the last of the books I read in 2024.

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Christmas Books I Still Hope to Read

by Donna Huber

Merry Christmas! Did you find everything you wanted under the tree? Did you get any books? If you got a new eReader and need to stock it or if you are just now finding time to read Christmas books, be sure to check out all 25 posts for our 25 Days of Christmas Reading. The free ebooks might not be free anymore but we provided plenty of recommendations over the past month that I'm sure you will find something fun to read.

Here is a list of Christmas books that are still in my TBR pile and I hope to get them read before the end of the year.

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Crime & Christmas Fa La La La

by Donna Huber

For a long time I thought Christmas stories were only romances, but in 2017 I read a Christmas thriller and it changed everything. Now I seek out other crime fiction Christmas stories. I always have a few cozy mystery series that have a Christmas book, but I particularly like Christmas suspense and thrillers. This year I've read a few so if you also want a thrill along with your Merry & Bright check out these books.

Need more recommendations? Check out all the books featured during the 25 Days of Christmas Reading.

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Dark Christmas Short Stories for Holiday Reading

by MK French

What better way to transition from Halloween reading to Christmas reading than with holiday horror, ghosts, and murder? If aren't quite ready for the Hallmark movie-worthy holiday stories, then these short stories are the perfect solution.  

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In These Hallowed Halls edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane ~ a Review

by MK French

This collection features the darker side of academia, with lecturers who should know better, obsessive students, and affairs of the heart that go south. 

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Wonderland: An Anthology edited by Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane ~ a Review

by MK French

There are eighteen brand new stories by well-known authors, including M.R. Carey, Genevieve Cogman and Catriona Ward. Poems by the wonderful Jane Yolen also bookend this volume. These are all different approaches to the Alice in Wonderland mythos, including horror renderings. Horror style Wonderland is actually very fascinating because most people think of only Jabberwocky as it's written. Here, we can have a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, alien and changing constantly every time you look at it. This is a little more like the American McGee Alice games, just off of normal to be eerie and bizarre.