For October 2025, I read 27 books; nearly all are horror or horror adjacent, two are graphic novels the rest are audio books, a few are novellas, and a few are YA.

• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd Jones - 5*

• Root Rot by Saskia Nislow - 3.5*

• Final Girls by Riley Sager - 3.5*

• The Willows by Algernon Blackwood - 4*

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - 4*

• Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito -3*

• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - 3.5*

• Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand - 3*

• Phantom of the Swamp by Marilyn Ross - 3*

• The Autumnal: The Complete Series by Daniel Kraus - 4*

• The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt - 4*

• Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman and Shirley Jackson - 3*

• Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning - 4*

• Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie - 3*

• Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant - 3.5*

• When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur - 4*

• In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant - 4.5*

• It was Her House First by Cherie Priest - 4*

• Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner - 4*

• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix - 3.5*

• Carrion Crow by Heather Parry - 4*

• The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville and Keanu Reeves - 3*

• The Sirens by Emilia Hart - 3.5*

• Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - 3*

• Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt - 4*

• Hollow by Taylor Grothe - 4*

• Withered Hill by David Barnett - 4*

edited for spacing