 i've actually never been to more scary books because i'm a wimp but let's hope i actually love some of these welcome back to my channel i hope you're all good today we're chatting about all the horror books on my tbr it was scary it was really scary so i did this a while back with all the murder mystery books on my tbr and it was super fun so i thought in time for spooky seasons spooky season is approaching we're all looking for some good horror wrecks i thought i'd do this video so maybe it would help you pick what books maybe you want to read in october and give you kind of a little bit of a sneak peek for some of the books i'm hoping to read in october i don't know how many of these i'm actually gonna get to but we're gonna we're gonna hope horror typically isn't a genre i read a ton of but i do enjoy it when i read it but also i'm a scary cat you guys i'm a fucking i'm a scary cat i'm a wimp don't really watch horror films the shining is the only horror film i've watched and the exorcist when i was three days old what my dad watched it and i was in the room but horror is always something i want to read more of i think horror and sci-fi are the two genres i know i always enjoy but i don't read a lot of so we're gonna go through all of the books that i own that i classified as horror now some of these you may think megan that's horror adjacent at best i think a lot of these are very much mild horror but all of them are classified as horror on good read so like i am right but they're very mild mild mild horror like mild horror we're gonna go through all the physical ones i own first for this quite a lot that i have on audiobook or ebook we'll go through them after this let's start with the one that i just received it is white smoke by tiffany jackson this is a haunted house horror book get out meets haunting of hail house so excited for this oh my god this is one of my most anticipated releases for the kind of latter half of this year you'll know i've talked about it quite a bit on my channel i very kindly received this from harper 360 y a this is an arc i'm not sure when this comes out oh hang on it's an american date 21st okay so i think this comes out tomorrow for me today for you watching this in the us but i think it comes out on the 30th of september in the uk i'm gonna be reading this in october i'm very very excited to get to it i'm ready okay whenever you're ready i'm ready okay i'm ready whenever you're ready i have never actually read a whole full length novel from tiffany jackson i do own groan tiffany jackson is just an author i feel like i'm gonna love like generally i think a five star author for me so i'm really excited to read this this is probably the only book that i'm like come rain come hail whatever happens in my life in october i'm reading this book a book on the flip side that i've owned for a long long time and has been a five star prediction for a long long time a book i've wanted to read for a long long time it is mexican gothic by silvia marino garcia i know that um this is about our protagonist's cousin has recently married into this family she's living with arspen's family and she contacts her saying like they're trying to poison me it's kind of a question of are they actually trying to poison her or is something wrong with her and her mental health and no me i think goes to go and investigate it said in 1950s mexico i've had so many good things silvia marino garcia is another author i've never actually read from before but i want to read all of their books already like i want to read all of her books right now i've heard this book is actually quite scary like i think mexican gothic is actually surprisingly scary there's something i know about it that i know other people know about it but people have told me off for mentioning it before because they're like negan it's a spoiler but like if you know you know and if you don't i don't tell you i'm just i have this idea if you get it you get it if you don't you don't if you know you know if you don't know like another one that i have heard really recently is the taking of jake livingston by ryan douglas this is about this boy who has always been able to see and hear ghosts but they've always kind of left him alone they've always just kind of been ambivalent towards him but then a serial killer ghost starts talking to him and is in his brain and i think we also follow the perspective of that ghost i was watching um live from a livery dilate speak about this and she read it she really enjoyed it but she was talking about how unsettling it is to be in that character's brain who we know has done these terrible things and like you're almost starting to understand the shitty life that he's had but like he's an awful person so like you don't want to sympathize with him at all i think there's a lot of trigger warnings in this i hadn't heard that until i watched Olivia's video but i've heard like pretty much every trigger warning you can imagine in terms of abuse and abuse for child is in there so like go into it if you're thinking of reading it with a lot of care but i i'm hoping this is another one i'm gonna read in october definitely another one i've wanted to read for ages is the luminous dead by katlyn starlin now i would love to read this in october because in november i am co-hosting the literally dead book club with books and lala and the book we're reading is katlyn starlin's new book the death of jane lorence i think it's called so i would like to read this first so that i know what i think of katlyn starlin's writing but uh this is about this woman who's like going deep underground on this mission the only context she has with another human is the human in her ear on this mission too and i think it's kind of sapphic between them but also we can't trust that other person really interested this this is like another i think five star prediction it feels perfect for this time of year so i'm hoping i'm gonna get to it but like i don't know if i am then another one i'm so excited to read is horrid by katrina leno now i can literally tell you nothing about this okay okay the level of unprofessionalism far too much because i just bought it because i loved you must not miss by katrina leno that was like literally the reason i bought it and i love the cover i love the flowers on the cover that's not a lie i know it's something about our protagonist like after her father's death moving house and there's something very unsettling about the house i think it's got the word ghost on the back is it are we haunted i don't know but i know it's going to be surreal and strange because katrina leno's writing uh so good this is another five star prediction but i literally know nothing so a super short horror that i'm very excited to get to is the woods always watching by stefanie perkins this is like a slasher of two friends who go on this three-day hike a detour leads them straight into a waking nightmare and then you do something far worse very excited i've heard mixed things about stefanie perkins kind of new slashery books but the trailer for there's someone in your house kind of got me not gonna lie kind of got me interested so i feel like this may be a good read um for october because it is so short and it's kind of like fun slashery ya and i just love the cover and the vibes of these books another one i think this is on the five star prediction list and all these horrors are on five star prediction list is the only good indians by steven graham jones this is about four friends who ten years ago shot an elk now a decade later these men are being stalked themselves hunted i have heard so many good things about this book it was really big like a year ago or so on booktube so i feel like i am really late to the party um because yeah this is like one of the books that i think i'm gonna love the most i just have struggled to fit it into a video i'm honestly looking at all these books and they are books i'm so excited for so like maybe i am a horror gal who knows who knows who knows um who knows who knows who knows this is probably one of the books i've heard the most good things about on this list so someone make me read it then i have another newer release is the final girl support group by gradey henjix so i've heard pretty good things about this as well this only just came out this is about this uh group of women who survived serial killers massacres um years ago and they have made the support group because like it's hard no one else really understands when you've been through that kind of stuff they've made a support group where they meet and talk to each other about how they're feeling and then one of them stops turning up it turns out that someone knows the group exists and wants to pick them off kind of one by one and i'm really excited for this i've heard a lot of people say that it's the kind of book you're going to like read in one sitting even though it's quite big it's like a super fast pace and it's got like some mixed media elements in it i think after every chapter there's like maybe like a newspaper entry or stuff like that i'm really excited and i've never read any gradey henjix i really want to read horror store my best friend's exorcism like i want to read all of gradey henjix stuff so i'm hoping this will be a good starting place then i have these two which are one and three number one and number three and i have a companion series but i don't think you have to read them strictly in order but i have hashtag murder trending and hashtag no escape which are these kind of dystopian horror murder novels this one is about where people vote on these executions that are like aired live and it's like a form of entertainment and this one is about escape rooms i think are aired and the and the contestants start dying gruesome deaths basically i think i got these both for my birthday at the start of the year so should read them soon let's go bitch why is she always late for everything i can't take it i picked these both up because emma from drinking by my shelf recommended them i haven't had a lot of people speak about them outside of that but i want to read murder trending soon hashtag murder trending because this is the first one and i think it's going to be like a very unique kind of like rompy horror like kind of campy horror and then the last physical book last physical horror book i own is pine by francine tune this is about a very like tight-knit community and lauren and her father find a woman stumbling along the road one night they take her back to their house and in the morning she's gone i don't really know much about it other than that this was a waterstones like thriller of the month which is why i bought it when i bought it i got influenced into buying it i often get influenced into buying their thriller of the month if it's something i'm like vaguely interested in but then i haven't heard great reviews about this one afterwards but something about it like the kind of like winteriness of it and bleakness of it gets me very excited i feel like horror is just such oh my god this is making me so excited for autumn and winter because it's so good for that kind of time of year i think i will be reading this pretty soon because i have a video idea that this will be in so i think i will be reading this in the next couple months maybe like in november or early next year and then let's just quickly go through the audiobooks and ebooks that i have i don't know as much about these so we're gonna like fly through them first we've got the last final girl by steven graham-jones all i know about this is that it's pretty much like another final girl but there's a lot out there because final girls by ronnie sager as well i don't really know what this is about i'm not gonna lie to you but i've saved it i think it's on script so i saved it because again i'm interested in steven graham-jones' stuff it's about this girl who um survived this like massacre and it says when she chooses former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court it's not just a fight for survival it's a fight to become the final girl so i don't know if they're like killing each other i think it's very like 80s slash a movie inspired but i am interested my interest is peaked it's a conspiracy theory that i'm actually interested in that could be a good audiobook listen to in um in october then i have ring shout by pd jelly cock this is kind of a short novella i've really been interested in getting to pd jelly cluck's stuff as well um i think it's like this dark horror fantasy about the cluck's clan and kind of reimagining their reign of terror i've heard great things about all of pd jelly cluck's stuff so i think this is where i'm gonna start because i do have the audiobook and like i said it's not very long i think the physical book's only like less than 200 pages this was another book that was really popular i think towards the end of last year so i'm gonna be a year late but hopefully i'll read it then we have lakewood by megan giddings all i know about this is that i think it's about a black woman who starts to participate in this secret kind of medical program it pays really well um all her bills are paid like medical bills are paid and it seems too good to be true i think it's like a very much a claustrophobic really unsettling confusing kind of horror i to me the way this has been described it's always given me some of the vibes to catherine house in the kind of atmosphere that is built throughout the book so i'm gonna be interested to see whether it is similar to that in kind of the atmosphere then i have night of the mannequins by steven graham jones another steven graham jones i actually know nothing about this it's another really short novella which is why i saved it on the script because it's a short audiobook all the description says is that it's a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose is there a supernatural cause a psychopath on the loose or both so my interest is peeped what can i say i would like to see it next is plain bad heroines by emily m danforth i think this is split in time between present day and this girl's boarding school in the 1900s it's something to do with like this legacy curse i think i don't really know this is another one that has been super popular a lot of people have read this i've heard a lot of good things i think beth from books nest i remember her really enjoying it when she read it this one is not a short audiobook this one is like a very long audiobook because the book is like 600 pages long it's a very long book so i'm a little bit intimidated to read this book i don't know if this is going to be one i read soon but i did save it nonetheless next is her body and other parties by carmen maria mashado this is short story horror which i'm very intrigued by i don't think i've ever read or like ever heard of any other short story like anthology horror i thought it's queer it's funny it's sexy it's scary it's like everything rolled into one really bizarre horror stories and then finally um we've got wakenhurst by michelle paver i literally know nothing about this book i think i got it for free the i have the ebook of this and i think i got it for free um i think it's like historical horror i think this is like a ghost story it's gothic um it's set in this like large manor house and this is the book that was like really popular in the uk a little while back so yeah a little bit of historical horror i love historical blended with other genres we all know that like fantasy historical mystery my perfect combo i love everything about this so there we have it that is all the horror book i have on my tbr let me know if you've read any of these which ones do you think i should prioritize getting to in 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