Skip to content

There's always room for one more…
Main navigation
  • Home
  • Reviews
    • Bite-size Books
      • Anthologies
      • Novellas
      • Serial fiction
      • Short stories
    • Read-Alongs
    • Series
      • Series shout-out
      • The Great Series Read Project
    • Review index
    • Review policy
  • Features
    • Interviews
    • Make Some Room
    • Top Ten Tuesday
    • Six Degrees of Separation
    • Tags
  • SciFiMonth
    • All Systems Read
  • Wyrd & Wonder
    • Spooktastic Reads
  • Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards
    • 2018
    • 2019
    • 2020
    • 2021
    • 2022

Category Archive: Spooktastic Reads

Spooktastic Reads: damn you

Spooktastic Reads: a Wyrd and Wonder mini-event happening 19-31 October
Read More

What? Oh! No, not – not you. You’re lovely. But one of my (admittedly intermittent) Spooktastic traditions is to divert from the strictly fictional into the fantastic realms of myth, (urban) legend and superstition. In past years I’ve talked about weird phenomena and haunts; this year I want to talk about curses. 

Continue reading →
October 29, 2021 Spooktastic Reads, Top Ten Tuesday

The Green Man’s Challenge

Book cover: The Green Man's Challenge - Juliet McKennaBritain is in the grip of a global pandemic, but an older – and equally dire – threat is awakening up on the Wiltshire chalk. With only uncertain allies and limited resources at his disposal, Dan must unravel secrets from a time even the dryads can’t remember…

Continue reading →
October 23, 2021 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Spooktastic Reads: Black Water Sister

Book cover: Black Water Sister - Zen Cho (UK edition)When Jess returns to Malaysia with her parents, she thinks she needs to figure out a job and how to finally tell them she’s in love with another girl. Instead, she’s hearing a voice in her head that wants her to confront a Forbes list business tycoon. Life is about to get even more complicated…

Continue reading →
October 21, 2021 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Spooktastic Reads: dream a little darker darling

Spooktastic Reads: a Wyrd and Wonder mini-event happening 19-31 October
Read More

The nights are closing in, the wind is wailing, and the fantasy adventures of May feel like forever ago. But there’s an autumnal fix of Wyrd and Wonder on the way! Spooktastic Reads will be back in October to dare the darker side of fantasy for 13 days leading up to Hallowe’en. Are you brave enough to join us?

Continue reading →
September 13, 2021 Spooktastic Reads, Wyrd and Wonder

Throwback Thursday: Zone One

Book cover: Zone One - Colson Whitehead (illustration of an eye in close-up, iris and pupil shaded red)

Mark Spitz was the very definition of average, carried along unresisting by the currents of middle class life… until the dead started walking.

Now he’s a traumatised loner – sorry, seasoned survivor – sweeping up the remnants of the apocalypse so that the living can return to Manhattan.

Welcome to Zone One.

Continue reading →

October 29, 2020 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Top Ten Tuesday: I say, is there anybody there?

Text only: top ten TUESDAY www.thatartsyreadergirl.com
Read More

Top Ten Tuesday is was created by The Broke and the Bookish, and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. We’re celebrating all things spooky for Hallowe’en, so I’m diverting from books to consider the stories that haunt us outside their pages.

Continue reading →
October 27, 2020 Spooktastic Reads, Top Ten Tuesday

Spooktastic Reads: The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Book cover: The Animals at Lockwood Manor - Jane HealeyAs bombs fall on London, the Natural History Museum’s collections are evacuated to the country. Hetty accompanies the mammals to Lockwood Manor, but its haunted halls hold their own threats – to the collection, and to Hetty’s peace of mind…

Continue reading →
October 24, 2020 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Houses rule: submit to the Dominion of the Fallen

Detail from a Parisian tomb: a cloaked woman laying a wreath on the head of the dead
Read More

We’re counting down the days to Hallowe’en with some #SpooktasticReads. Today’s prompt – dark fantasy – is the perfect excuse to enthuse at you about one of my favourite series: Aliette de Bodard’s Gothic fantasy Dominion of the Fallen.

Come, enter the shadows of Fallen Paris with me…

Continue reading →
October 21, 2020 Features, Series shout-out, Spooktastic Reads

Ready to get Spooktastic?

Spooktastic Reads: a Wyrd and Wonder mini-event happening 19-31 October
Read More

October is here: leaves are a-crunching, pumpkin spice is a-calling and Spooktastic Reads is nearly upon us. Will you join us for Wyrd and Wonder’s annual celebration of dark fantasy, Gothic horror and autumnal scares?

Continue reading →
October 4, 2020 Spooktastic Reads

Spooktastic Reads: Wyrd and Wonder gets creepy

Spooktastic Reads: a Wyrd and Wonder mini-event happening 19-31 October
Read More

Wyrd and Wonder seems like a long-ago dream, but there’s time for more fantasy flailing before year’s end. We’re delighted to confirm Spooktastic Reads will be back to venture into the darker reaches of fantasy for 13 days leading up to Hallowe’en. Are you brave enough to join us?

Continue reading →
August 24, 2020 Spooktastic Reads, Wyrd and Wonder

Throwback Thursday: Thin Air

Book cover: Thin Air - Michelle Paver (illustration, mountains against a field of dark blue)For Dr Stephen Pearce, it’s a boyhood dream come true: he’s joining an expedition attempting to scale one of the world’s unconquered peaks. But Kanchenjunga has the reputation of a killer, and Stephen will face its deadly secrets alone…

Continue reading →
January 9, 2020 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Throwback Thursday: Cold Earth

Book cover: Cold Earth - Sarah Moss (a woman's face in profile in black and white)A summer digging up Norse ruins in Greenland should have been amazing, but with a flu pandemic breaking out back home, six haunted post-docs question their choices – and their sanity. Can they rely on one another to get through the Arctic night?

Continue reading →
October 24, 2019 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Top Ten Tuesday: spook up a book title

Text only: top ten TUESDAY www.thatartsyreadergirl.com
Read More

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish, and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It’s all about books, lists and sharing the love we have of both with our bookish friends. This week, we were asked what books we would rename… you know where I’m taking this at this time of year, right?

Continue reading →
October 22, 2019 Spooktastic Reads, Top Ten Tuesday

#SpooktasticReads TBR

Spooktastic Reads: A Wyrd and Wonder Event - October 19-31 2019
Read More

October is here. The pumpkins have begun their annual supermarket takeover. And starting next weekend your #WyrdAndWonder crew will be back for our 13 day mini-season of #SpooktasticReads!

Continue reading →
October 12, 2019 Spooktastic Reads

Hallowdene: no rest for the wicked

Book cover: Hallowdene - George Mann (a red silhouette of a goat skill, with a demonic sigil carved in white on its forehead)Elspeth Reeves has put the horrors of the Carrion King story behind her. When archaeologists unearth the bones of a long-dead witch, there are mutters that her centuries-old curse will be reawakened. But is the vengeful spirit of Agnes Levett really behind the spate of murders that follow?

Continue reading →
October 31, 2018 Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Posts navigation

Previous1 2 Next
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Storygraph
  • Litsy
  • Goodreads
Secondary navigation
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Storygraph
  • Litsy
  • Goodreads
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Follow Following
    • onemore.org
    • Join 2,375 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • onemore.org
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...